IRON MAN SERIES · Finale Race⏱ 1h23

The Finale of the Lignano Circuit FPV endurance race took place on October 24, 2026 in Precenicco, on the Lignano Circuit short layout (950 m). Eleven karts lined up for an 82-minute contest, each team making four pit stops over the course of the race.

LO SARDO ANTONINO (kart #7) took the victory after completing 85 laps, finishing ahead of ZACCARON SIMONE (kart #11) by 16.345 seconds and MURONI FABIO (kart #1) by 45.484 seconds. SPAGNOL MARCO (kart #4) and FAVERO JOEL (kart #9) rounded out the top five, both on 84 laps. Six further competitors completed 82 or 81 laps, with ROCHELLI ALESSIO (kart #10) closing the classification in 11th place, four laps down on the leader.

The fastest lap of the race was set by ZACCARON SIMONE in 51.830 seconds. Despite this outright pace, ZACCARON could not prevent LO SARDO from converting pace consistency into the race win.

The pace analysis confirms the strength of the top three. LO SARDO ANTONINO recorded the best median race pace at 52.431 s and was also the most consistent driver of the entire field, with a lap-time standard deviation of just 0.64 s. All five of his stints showed a stable tendency, underlining remarkable regularity over the full distance. ZACCARON SIMONE posted the second-best median pace (52.595 s, σ = 0.70 s), while MURONI FABIO ranked third in pure pace (52.753 s, σ = 0.67 s) — the top three on pace matching the top three on the results sheet exactly.

Further down the order, FAVERO JOEL (4th in pure pace at 52.919 s) finished 5th, one position behind his pace ranking. His second stint showed a slight drop of 0.16 s per lap, the most notable degradation recorded in the field. SPAGNOL MARCO, on the other hand, finished 4th despite ranking only 5th in pure pace (53.273 s), suggesting an effective strategic approach. A brief slowdown of 0.16 s/lap was also recorded in his fourth stint before a strong recovery in the closing phase.

TRAINA MATTEO stands out as the most noteworthy gap between pace and result: 6th in pure median pace (53.946 s) but only 8th at the flag. His pace was genuinely superior to the two drivers who finished ahead of him, yet the classification did not reflect it. BAKURADZE DAVITI (10th at the finish, 9th in pace) displayed the smoothest consistency among the mid-field runners, with a standard deviation of 0.75 s.

Key takeaways for teams: At Lignano Circuit FPV, the winning combination on October 24, 2026 was pace consistency across all five stints rather than raw single-lap speed — LO SARDO ANTONINO held the best median pace AND the lowest standard deviation in the field. Managing tyre and engine degradation to keep each stint stable proved decisive. Teams in the 6th–8th range should focus on converting strong pace into clean lap-count execution, as the gap between pure pace ranking and final position in that group shows significant room for improvement.