4H ENDURANCE · Finale Race⏱ 4h04

Eleven teams lined up for the 243-minute endurance Final on the Lignano Circuit short (950 m) in Precenicco on 19 July 2026, delivering a tight and technically demanding race that was decided over 244 laps.

LUBING ITALIA (kart #11) took the overall victory, completing 244 laps and crossing the line 14.168 seconds ahead of SVK RACING (kart #4), with GATEDEV LUBING RACING (kart #3) a further 0.775 s back in third. Fourth went to FRIULDEV KARTING TEAM (+19.502 s), fifth to FUXIA (+25.837 s) and sixth to LIGNANO CIRCUIT FUN TEAM (+27.099 s) — all six completing the full 244 laps. APEX RACING finished seventh, one lap down, while MOSAIKO ABR TEAM VERONA (8th), D.ESSE.D. RACING and FRIULDEV ACADEMY (9th–10th, tied at 240 laps) and SHARK HUNTERS (11th, 234 laps) completed the order. All eleven teams made exactly 11 pit stops.

The fastest lap of the race was set by SVK RACING in 51.628 s — the quickest single lap of the entire event.

Race analysis — where positions were won and lost:

The most revealing figure of the day is the gap between on-track pace and final result. GATEDEV LUBING RACING posted the best median race pace of the field at 52.295 s per lap and also the highest consistency (standard deviation of 0.60 s), yet finished only third. Their pace was fully stable across all twelve stints, with no degradation flag recorded — a textbook endurance performance that was ultimately not rewarded by the stopwatch at the finish.

LIGNANO CIRCUIT FUN TEAM present a similar story: 3rd-best pure pace (median 52.329 s), yet classified 6th. The gap between their raw speed and their result points to time lost in the pit lane cycle rather than any on-track weakness — a clear area for strategic improvement.

The winner, LUBING ITALIA, ran as the 2nd-best pace (52.308 s median) and converted that speed into victory through consistent stint management. Their regularity of 0.69 s was solid across the long stints; however, stint 6 showed the sharpest degradation of any team in the race — losing 0.28 s per lap by the end of that run — before recovering to stable pace in subsequent stints.

SVK RACING are the strategic standout of the race: ranked only 5th in pure pace (median 52.378 s), they finished 2nd. Their consistency figure of 0.68 s is competitive, and their stint management across twelve stints — including a 27-lap stint 9 without pace deterioration — allowed them to extract maximum result from their available speed.

FRIULDEV KARTING TEAM (4th place, 4th in pace at 52.356 s) showed signs of tyre stress in stints 8, 9 and 10, losing between 0.17 and 0.22 s per lap by the end of each run; their strong 22-lap stint 11 (standard deviation 0.37 s, fully stable) helped them hold fourth to the flag.

Key takeaways for teams: At Lignano Circuit FPV, raw pace alone is not sufficient — the gap between GATEDEV LUBING RACING's best pace and a podium win, and between LIGNANO CIRCUIT FUN TEAM's 3rd-best pace and a 6th-place finish, confirms that pit-stop timing and stint-length optimisation are decisive. Teams that suffered late-stint degradation (particularly in short 9-lap stints) paid a measurable price. Extending clean, stable stints where pace allows, and managing the transition between drivers without lap-time spikes, proved the most effective lever in this 243-minute Final.