2h d endurance · Finale Race⏱ 2h06

The 125-minute endurance final held on 1 November 2026 at Saintes Karting (700-metre circuit) brought together 12 teams for a tightly contested race that ultimately rewarded consistency over raw pace. Every team completed the event with 6 pit stops apiece, making strategy and regularity the decisive battlegrounds.

SAINTES (kart #4) took the victory with 126 laps, finishing a full lap clear of second place. Their winning margin came not from outright speed — they ranked 2nd in pure pace with a median lap time of 52.051 s — but from outstanding regularity, recording the lowest standard deviation of the entire field at 0.39 s. All four of their stints were rated stable, reflecting a composed, methodical race management throughout the 125 minutes.

-SRK- Saintes Racing Kart (kart #9) crossed the line in 2nd place with 124 laps, one lap down on the winner. Statistically, they were the fastest team on pure pace, posting the best median lap time in the race at 51.970 s across five stints. Their best lap of 51.623 s was also among the sharpest individual laps recorded. However, a standard deviation of 0.46 s — slightly higher than the winner's — and two laps conceded over the race distance illustrate how pure speed alone could not compensate for the marginal consistency advantage held by the victors.

-RPS- Racing Performance Saintes (kart #8) finished 3rd, 19.763 seconds behind 2nd, completing 125 laps. They recorded the fastest individual lap of the entire race: 51.561 s, and their pace ranked 3rd overall (median 52.275 s). With six stints across the 125 minutes, their race pace was solid but their standard deviation of 0.50 s placed them mid-field in terms of regularity.

SWR – Saintes Women Racing (kart #6) secured 4th place with 125 laps, 39.894 s behind 3rd. Their pure-pace ranking (4th, median 52.293 s) perfectly matched their finishing position, indicating a clean and well-executed race. Monkey Racing (kart #18) and Scuderia 24 (kart #16) completed the top six, both on 125 laps — separated by just 3.633 s at the flag — while Team Crazy Race (kart #7) finished 7th, also on 125 laps, 8.142 s back.

In the second half of the field, Saintes Family Karting (kart #2) took 8th with 124 laps, ahead of ELI Racing (kart #5), Les Leds (kart #10), La Zanuteam (kart #3), and Leo Team (kart #11). Notably, La Zanuteam offered one of the more interesting data points: despite finishing 11th, their pure-pace ranking was 8th (median 53.005 s), a gap explained by their highest consistency deficit — a standard deviation of 0.83 s, the largest in the field alongside Leo Team's 1.00 s. These two teams lost significant time to laptime variance between stints rather than to outright slowness.

Key takeaways for teams: This final at Saintes Karting demonstrated that regularity wins endurance races. SAINTES secured the victory without holding the best pace in the field, simply by maintaining the tightest consistency across their stints (σ = 0.39 s). SRK held the best median pace but finished second. For teams further down the order, the data suggests that reducing stint-to-stint variance — rather than chasing peak lap times — represents the clearest path to performance gain over a 125-minute race on this circuit.