ENDURANCE DUB'KART RACING · Course Race⏱ 2h36

Thirteen teams lined up on 7 November 2026 for a 155-minute endurance race at Karting Circuit Paul Ricard (964 m), delivering a tightly contested battle across the entire field. When the chequered flag fell, DUB (kart #23) claimed overall victory with 138 laps completed, finishing a full lap ahead of TEAM BIANCHI (kart #3), who crossed the line in second place with 136 laps. MR2L (kart #9) rounded out the podium in third, also on 136 laps but classified behind TEAM BIANCHI on countback.

DUB took victory with 11 pit stops and posted the fastest lap of the entire race — a 59.379 set during their seventh stint, which also proved their quickest and most consistent segment (median pace: 59.820). Their overall consistency was the best in the field, with an average lap-time standard deviation of just 0.63 s across 138 laps. While their pure median pace of 1:00.170 ranked them only second in terms of raw speed, it was their regularity and strategic management of 12 stints that made the difference.

TEAM BIANCHI posted the best pure pace of the race — a median of 1:00.118 — yet had to settle for second place. With 12 pit stops, their race featured an alternating rhythm between sub-60-second stints and slower ones around 1:01.8–1:01.9, resulting in a higher lap-time variability (standard deviation: 1.11 s). Their best individual stints were genuinely rapid, including a median of 59.755 in stint 9, but that inconsistency across stints ultimately cost them the win.

NITROX (kart #1) finished fourth with 139 laps — the highest lap count of the race — and held the third-best pure pace (median 1:01.298, 9 pit stops), yet their regularity (1.05 s standard deviation) left them behind the leading duo. MOMO (kart #21) in sixth held the fourth-best pace overall (1:01.496), but their race featured significant rhythm variations between stints, particularly in stints 3 to 6 where their pace dropped notably before recovering strongly in a 31-lap stint 7.

The strategy story of the race belongs to MR2L: classified third despite ranking only fifth in pure pace (median 1:01.909, standard deviation 0.70 s), they achieved a podium finish through consistent driving and an efficient 9-stop strategy — a clear example of strategic mileage outweighing outright speed. At the other end of the spectrum, RICO (kart #26) finished 12th despite holding the ninth-best pure pace (median 1:02.919), their race undermined by the highest lap-time variability in the field (standard deviation: 2.23 s) and a stint 7 that degraded by 0.17 s per lap.

LES FADAS (kart #13) and T DANS LE RETRO (kart #7) finished seventh and eighth respectively, separated by just 2.538 seconds after 155 minutes of racing. OUEST SIDE (kart #18) brought their race to a close in 13th and last place, 14 laps down on the leader, with the most variable pace of all (standard deviation: 2.83 s across 12 stints).

Key takeaways for teams: This race at Karting Paul Ricard confirmed that consistency over raw speed is decisive in endurance. DUB won not because they were the fastest (that was TEAM BIANCHI) but because they combined regularity, a competitive pace and clean pit-stop management. MR2L's podium with a 9-stop strategy underlines the value of minimising time loss in the pits. For teams with high pace variability — such as RICO or OUEST SIDE — the priority heading into the next event should be ironing out the rhythm swings between stints, as pure speed alone offers no guarantee of a strong result.