IRON SWS · Gara Race⏱ 7 min

The Competitions Karting Club in Ispica hosted a tightly contested endurance race on the Pista Orario Full (1,400 m) on 11 July 2026. Nineteen karts lined up for the event, and the top twelve all completed 65 laps, making race management and consistency the decisive factors over the six-minute format.

GIARRATANA (kart #12) took the victory after 65 laps, edging CHIARENZA M (kart #3) by just 1.187 seconds at the flag. INTERLANDI (kart #38) completed the podium, 5.116 seconds behind the winner. The top five were all separated by fewer than 18 seconds, underscoring the extreme competitiveness of the field across the full distance. PALUMBO (kart #34) and VELA (kart #24) finished 4th and 5th respectively, each 5 laps down on one another in gap but covered within two-tenths of a second at the line.

GIARRATANA also set the fastest lap of the race with a 1:11.278, the sharpest single lap of the entire afternoon. Every team in the field made exactly 5 pit stops, meaning strategy differentiation came down to stint length and on-track pace management rather than stop timing.

The race analysis reveals a striking gap between on-track pace and final classification. INTERLANDI posted the best pure median pace of the entire field at 1:11.872, yet finished 3rd — their consistency across all five stints, with standard deviations as low as 0.17 s, was exemplary. CHIARENZA M held the 2nd best median pace (1:11.934) and converted it into 2nd place, though a notable slowdown of 0.20 s/lap during stint 3 (just 6 laps, median 1:12.482) prevented a stronger challenge for the lead.

GIARRATANA's winning edge was built on exceptional consistency: an overall standard deviation of just 0.43 s — the best of any team in the race — and a median pace of 1:11.972 (4th best in the field). All four of their recorded stints showed a stable trend, with the tightest stint regularity reaching as low as 0.16 s in stint 4. The win was not about raw speed, but about delivering clean, repeatable lap times from start to finish.

The most notable gap between speed and result belongs to CHIARENZA C (kart #44), who registered the 3rd best pure pace in the analysis yet finished only 13th, one lap down. On the other side of the spectrum, PICCOLO (kart #9) outperformed their raw pace ranking significantly — 11th best median pace but 7th in the final standings — a textbook example of race management overcoming a pace deficit.

Key takeaways for teams: At Competitions Karting Club Ispica, consistency pays more than outright speed. GIARRATANA won with only the 4th best median pace but the strongest lap-time regularity of the field. Teams that struggled with high standard deviations in the opening stint — several exceeded 1.2 s — gave away time that proved impossible to recover. Controlling degradation across long stints and maintaining a stable rhythm throughout all five pit-stop windows were the true performance differentiators in this race.