JMA · ENDURANCE Race⏱ 1h03

The 62-minute endurance race held on 18 September 2026 at Dunois Kart in Lutz-en-Dunois brought together 19 teams on the 1,100-metre Piste 1200m circuit. At the end of a hard-fought contest, VOLVO (kart #17) took the victory with 51 laps completed, holding off DEUTZ FAHR (kart #1) by 13.405 seconds. KUBOTA (kart #13) completed the podium, a further 28.821 seconds adrift. Every team in the top 14 completed three pit stops, making strategy a decisive factor across the field.

The fastest lap of the race was set by KUBOTA in a time of 1:03.173, the sharpest single lap of the afternoon. Yet, despite this outright pace, KUBOTA had to settle for third place — a gap that the pace analysis helps explain. KUBOTA's median race pace of 1:04.470 ranked 2nd across the field, but an irregular stint structure (ranging from 1:03.859 to 1:07.582 median pace across relays) and a regularity standard deviation of 1.82 seconds ultimately cost the team dearly in the final standings.

The most striking finding from the pace analysis concerns CLAAS (kart #22). Despite finishing 4th — one lap down on the leaders — CLAAS posted the best pure pace of the entire field with a median race time of 1:04.382. However, two stints at around 1:10 median pace (relays 2 and 3), contrasting sharply with their blistering 1:03.864 and 1:03.882 in relays 1 and 4, resulted in a regularity standard deviation of 3.08 seconds — the highest of the analysed runners. This inconsistency across the four stints directly explains the lost lap.

VOLVO's winning performance was built on solid consistency rather than raw speed. Their median race pace of 1:05.053 ranked only 3rd, but a regularity standard deviation of 0.89 seconds tells a different story. Their final relay of 12 laps was their most clinical — median 1:04.843, a standard deviation of just 0.36 seconds, and a stable trend throughout — applied at exactly the right moment in the race. DEUTZ FAHR, the runner-up, was the most consistent team overall (σ = 0.79 s) and held an unwavering pace across all four relays, never deviating more than 0.35 seconds from their median.

Further down the order, JOHN DEERE (kart #14) stands out as the most notable contrast between potential and result. Ranked 7th for pure pace, they finished 15th with only 27 laps — the lowest total among teams in the top 19. Their third relay also recorded the steepest pace degradation of the race, losing 1.75 seconds per lap, before the session was cut short for reasons not captured in the data. NEW HOLLAND (kart #11) shows the opposite picture: a pure pace ranking of 17th yet a final position of 10th, illustrating how consistent pit stop execution can compensate for a lack of outright speed.

At the foot of the order, LIEBHERR (kart #27) was the only team to make four pit stops, completing 46 laps and finishing 5th from last.

Key takeaways for teams: The Dunois Kart endurance on 18 September 2026 confirmed that pace consistency across all relays is worth more than occasional bursts of speed. CLAAS and KUBOTA both had the raw pace to win but were let down by inconsistent stint-to-stint rhythm. VOLVO won by keeping their four relays tight and delivering their best numbers when it mattered most. At this circuit, a standard deviation below 1.0 seconds per lap appears to be the benchmark for a podium finish.