FESTI'KLN · COURSE Race⏱ 10h02

Twenty teams took to the Reverse layout (717 m) of Karting Loisirs Neuilly, near Neuilly-sous-Clermont, on 12 September 2026 for an endurance race of just over ten hours (601 minutes). At the flag, KLN Driver 216 (kart #56) took the overall victory with 668 laps completed, ahead of TKF 60 (kart #58, 670 laps) – which crossed the line first in terms of raw laps but was classified behind on time, the gap standing at 12.131 seconds. LMA Racing Sport (kart #67) completed the podium, one lap down, while KLN Driver 261 (kart #53) and Scuderia 24 Junior (kart #62) rounded out the top five, three and five laps adrift respectively. Every team in the top twelve completed their race with 14 pit stops, while those classified 13th through 19th made 18 stops and 20th-placed Frere Racing Team required 19 passages.

The fastest lap of the race was set by KLN Driver 261 (kart #53) in 49.459 s, a benchmark that illustrates the tight pace at the sharp end of the field throughout the ten hours.

Digging into the race analysis, TKF 60 posted the best pure pace of the entire field, with a median lap time of 50.154 s (1st in pace ranking) – fractionally quicker than winner KLN Driver 216's 50.159 s median. Yet it was KLN Driver 216 that prevailed overall, and the data shows why: with a standard deviation of 0.62 s, it was the most consistent team on track across the entire race. Every one of its fifteen stints was rated stable, and its best single stint – relay 8, 101 laps – produced a median of 49.943 s and included its quickest lap of 49.579 s. That combination of regularity and sustained output over the long haul proved decisive.

TKF 60, despite holding the edge in outright pace, showed slightly more variation across its stints (σ = 0.69 s), with short stints 10 and 11 recording accelerating trends of 0.43 and 0.24 s/lap respectively. LMA Racing Sport ran a clean race in 3rd place (σ = 0.72 s, pace rank 3rd), its rhythm matching its finishing position almost exactly. KLN Driver 261, while holding pace rank 5th overall, produced the day's absolute fastest lap and showed stronger median times in its early stints before settling into a slower rhythm from relay 5 onwards.

The most striking analytical finding concerns TKF 60 Loisirs 3 (kart #40, 13th place): its pure pace ranked 9th in the field – well clear of its finishing position – suggesting that a higher number of pit stops (18 vs. 14 for the top finishers) significantly hampered its race result. Conversely, Team EMSA 2 (12th, pace rank 15th) extracted more from its race than its raw speed suggested, finishing ahead of several faster teams. Scuderia 24 Junior deserves mention for holding pace rank 4th (median 50.409 s) while finishing 5th, running a consistent race across 15 stints despite an overall standard deviation of 0.86 s.

Key takeaways for teams: At Karting Loisirs Neuilly, over a ten-hour race, lap-time consistency proved as important as outright speed – KLN Driver 216 winning with the most regular pace (σ = 0.62 s) despite not being the fastest team in median terms. Pit-stop strategy was equally decisive: the gap between 14 and 18 stops separated the top twelve from the lower half of the field. Teams with strong pure pace but a heavier stop count – notably TKF 60 Loisirs 3 – should examine whether their strategy cost them multiple positions on the road.