7H ENDURANCE · Finale Race

The Finale endurance race at Lignano Circuit FPV (Precenicco, 1,187 m layout) on 2 August 2026 brought together 20 teams for a demanding race that went the distance. When the chequered flag fell, it was EURORACING ASD (kart #7) that claimed victory with 379 laps completed, holding off PAGG VALFLUID (#4) — also on 379 laps — by 15.790 seconds. LUBING ITALIA (#1) completed the podium, likewise on 379 laps at 51.980 seconds from the leader. All three podium finishers matched pace on lap count, making the result hinge on every second spent on the circuit and in the pits. All 20 teams recorded 17 pit stops each, confirming a uniform pit-stop strategy across the field.

SIAMO A POSTO COSÌ! (#9) set the absolute fastest lap of the race — 51.913 s — and backed it up with the best pure race pace of any team (median lap time 52.496 s, ranked 1st by pure rhythm). Yet the squad finished only 5th, on 378 laps. With 377 laps covered and a consistent overall rhythm, the team was nonetheless unable to convert raw speed into a higher finishing position, illustrating how strategy and execution over a long race can outweigh single-lap pace.

The contrast is equally striking at the other end of the top ten: R.A.V. RACING TEAM SPECIAL (#18) finished 8th on 378 laps despite carrying only the 11th-best pure rhythm (median 52.743 s). Their ability to stay consistently on track — overall regularity of 0.53 s standard deviation — translated a modest pace into a result well above what raw speed alone would have predicted.

Among the frontrunners, the relay-by-relay analysis points to R.A.V. RACING TEAM (#15) as the team suffering the sharpest degradation: their 7th and final stint (11 laps) saw pace drop at a rate of 0.26 s per lap, with regularity collapsing to a standard deviation of 1.16 s — their most erratic stint of the race. Finishing 4th on 378 laps, they were closely separated from 5th-placed SIAMO A POSTO COSÌ! by just 0.027 seconds, underlining how costly that late-race slowdown proved.

Further down the order, ENERGY PFV (#6) and BRG (#11) posted the 8th and 9th best pure rhythms respectively yet finished 10th and 12th, while GATEDEV RACING TEAM (#16) (10th in pure rhythm) could only manage 11th. Conversely, PFV (#13) finished 7th with the 7th-best rhythm — one of the rare cases where classification and pace aligned closely.

What teams should take away: at Lignano Circuit FPV, pure lap pace alone does not decide the outcome. This Finale demonstrated that converting rhythm into laps requires controlling degradation through long stints — particularly in the closing relays — and executing pit stops without losing time. Teams ranked highly on pure pace but finishing mid-field (SIAMO A POSTO COSÌ!, ENERGY PFV, BRG) should focus on closing the gap between their best rhythm and their race-average rhythm. Teams like R.A.V. RACING TEAM SPECIAL, meanwhile, show that solid regularity and clean strategy are a genuine path to outperforming on pace.