SGK 4 ORE ENDURANCE · Finale Race⏱ 4h04

The Final of the endurance race held at South Garda Karting in Lonato del Garda on 5 September 2026 delivered a gripping 243-minute battle across 26 teams on the 1,250-metre circuit. When the chequered flag fell, it was PAGG & PASTINA (kart #4) who took victory, completing 202 laps and edging out their sister team PAGG VALFLUID (#2) by just 0.366 seconds — a photo-finish margin after more than four hours of racing. GOATS RT BLACK (#8) rounded out the podium 27.5 seconds further back, ahead of ELITE KARTING CREW (#13) at 28.5 seconds. Both PAGG teams and GOATS RT BLACK completed 202 laps and made 9 pit stops each.

The best lap of the entire race was set by PAVONI RACING TEAM (kart #23) in a stunning 1:04.555, making them the only team to dip under the 1:05 barrier all race long — a remarkable single-lap performance from a team that ultimately finished 17th overall.

Analysis of pure pace tells a more nuanced story at the top. PAGG VALFLUID posted the best median race rhythm of the field at 1:05.415 (1st in pure pace), fractionally ahead of winners PAGG & PASTINA at 1:05.418 (2nd in pure pace). Victory for PAGG & PASTINA therefore came down to execution rather than raw speed — their 10 stints were all rated stable, with a minimum lap-time dispersion (overall regularity σ = 0.37 s). PAGG VALFLUID matched that consistency (σ = 0.36 s) across 10 equally stable stints and will reflect on a very fine margin that separated the two.

ELITE KARTING CREW were the third-fastest team on pure pace (median 1:05.555) yet finished 4th, while SVK RACING (#7) stand out as the race's most striking underperformers relative to their pace: 4th-best median rhythm at 1:05.570 (σ = 0.34 s, the joint-tightest of the top ten), yet they crossed the line in 8th place, 59 seconds off the lead. Their stint 6 — just 6 laps long at a median of 1:06.415 — illustrates a disrupted rhythm during that phase of the race.

On the other end of the spectrum, GATEDEV (#6) finished 12th despite ranking only 21st in pure pace (median 1:06.099), making them the team that overdelivered most through strategy, gaining nine positions over their natural pace ranking with 9 pit stops. Meanwhile, across the field, the two VENETO KORSE entries (5th and 6th, σ = 0.52 and 0.54 s respectively) showed the widest lap-time variations of the top-nine finishers, highlighting some inconsistency between stints even if their outright pace was competitive.

The most consistent team of the entire race was HUULIA PINK (#25, 13th), posting the lowest overall regularity standard deviation at just 0.31 s — a remarkable figure for a team that ran 11 pit stops and completed 197 laps.

Key takeaways for competing teams: At South Garda Karting, a gap of barely 3 thousandths of a second in median race rhythm separated 1st and 2nd place — testament to how fine the margins are over 243 minutes. Pure pace must be backed by consistent pit-stop timing: SVK RACING's 4th-best rhythm yielding only 8th place is the clearest illustration of that. Teams able to maintain stable stints throughout — as PAGG & PASTINA and PAGG VALFLUID both demonstrated — will consistently challenge at the front, regardless of who holds the outright pace advantage lap-to-lap.