IRON MAN SERIES · Finale Race⏱ 1h24

The 83-minute endurance Final held on 12 July 2026 at Lignano Circuit FPV in Precenicco, on the 950-metre short layout, brought together nine drivers in a tightly fought contest that was ultimately decided by strategy rather than outright pace.

Grassotto Matteo (kart #9) took the victory with 86 laps completed, edging Rocco Andrea (#1) by just 0.150 seconds at the chequered flag — one of the narrowest margins of the meeting. Cosani Mattia (#5) completed the podium, also on 86 laps, 7.637 seconds adrift. Bello' Kristian (#2) finished fourth, a further 1.927 seconds back. The top four all covered 86 laps and made four pit stops apiece, underlining the uniformity of strategy across the leading group.

Marrocco Alberto (#8) claimed fifth place, also on 86 laps but 41.935 seconds behind the winner — a gap that reveals a clear performance step down from the leading quartet. Botteon Michele (#3) came home sixth one lap down, ahead of Ongaro Francesco (#4), who lost two laps. Candusso Filippo (#7) finished eighth at 22.577 seconds within that same lap, while Fetishev Oleg (#6) rounded out the field four laps behind the leader.

The fastest lap of the race was set by Rocco Andrea in a time of 51.566 seconds.

The race analysis reveals a significant gap between the result sheet and the underlying pace data. Rocco Andrea posted the best pure median pace of the field (52.026 s) and the best lap of the race, yet crossed the line second. His fourth stint showed a slight degradation of 0.17 s per lap — the only slowing trend in an otherwise consistent performance (overall regularity: 0.62 s standard deviation). Had that stint been managed differently, the outcome could well have been reversed.

Grassotto Matteo, the winner, ranked only third in pure pace (median 52.103 s) — a textbook example of strategy overriding raw speed. With remarkably stable relays across all five stints (standard deviations ranging from 0.19 to 0.87 s), he made the most of his pit-stop timing to come out ahead when it mattered most.

Bello' Kristian is the race's most striking underperformer relative to his machinery: second-best pure pace (52.099 s), yet only fourth at the finish. His fourth relay, which showed the sharpest degradation of the race at 0.20 s per lap, likely cost him ground at a critical phase of the race. His regularity (0.60 s) was otherwise comparable to the front-runners.

Interestingly, Fetishev Oleg, who finished last, was paradoxically the most consistent driver of the entire field with a standard deviation of just 0.55 s — illustrating that regularity alone, without the necessary outright pace (54.163 s median), cannot compensate for a speed deficit over 83 minutes.

Key takeaways for teams: at Lignano Circuit FPV, pit-stop timing proved decisive at the very front of the field, separating drivers of near-identical pace by mere tenths. Managing fourth-stint degradation — where Rocco, Cosani and Bello' all slowed — will be a priority area for the next round. The gap between second-best pace (Bello') and second place on the road (Rocco) also confirms that tyre and kart management through the final stints carries as much weight as qualifying speed.