Endurance Festival - 1h Juniors · Wedstrijd 4 Race⏱ 1h10

Eleven teams took the start of the 70-minute Wedstrijd 4 endurance race at Worldkarts Kortrijk (850 m, Kortrijk) on 6 September 2026. At the chequered flag, H: Twin Turbo (kart #67) claimed victory with 43 laps completed, edging out J: AF Racing Team (kart #61) by 6.020 seconds. F: Double Trouble Racing (kart #69) rounded out the podium, finishing 31.179 seconds behind the winner with 37 laps to their name.

The fastest lap of the entire race was set by J: AF Racing Team in a time of 1:17.426. Twin Turbo's best lap of 1:17.454 was only a fraction slower, while I: MDBAG-Racing (kart #62) posted a 1:17.631 to claim fourth place overall. Further back, G: Team RS Endurance (kart #68) crossed the line fifth with 42 laps, just under a minute adrift of the leader.

The strategic picture is where this race becomes particularly interesting. Twin Turbo, despite ranking only 5th in pure median pace (1:19.449), converted their race into a win through four pit stops and smart management. Their third stint was their strongest, with a median pace of 1:17.767 — a clear step up from their opening stints and enough to seal the result. In contrast, AF Racing Team showed the most consistent pace of the field (standard deviation of just 0.53 s), holding a median rhythm of 1:18.380 across three stints, all of which remained remarkably stable.

The most striking statistic of the day belongs to K: FRT Juniors (kart #60), who recorded the best pure median pace in the field at 1:18.317 — yet finished only 8th. Their first two stints (1:18.073 and 1:17.822) were outstanding, but their third stint dropped to a median of 1:22.546, which proved costly in terms of laps completed. The pace was there; the full race distance was not.

I: MDBAG-Racing finished fourth despite holding the 3rd fastest median pace (1:18.401). Their third stint showed a noticeable drop in median rhythm to 1:20.131 compared to their first two stints, which may have opened the door for others to close the gap. G: Team RS Endurance delivered solid regularity (0.71 s std dev) across four stints but saw a slight drift upward in pace as the race wore on, losing around 0.30 s per lap in their final stint.

D: RT Racing (kart #52) and B: Mattheo & Helene (kart #56) held 6th and 7th respectively, both showing improving pace across their stints — RT Racing accelerating by up to 0.46 s per lap in their second stint — but a slower overall median kept them out of the top five. A: Project Apex (kart #58) could only manage 22 laps across their stints, leaving them classified 9th. E: Sally & McQueen (kart #70) and C: A-Force (kart #55) rounded out the field in 10th and 11th.

Key takeaways for teams: This race was decided by strategy as much as pace. Twin Turbo's win with only the 5th-best median rhythm proves that pit stop timing and stint construction matter enormously over 70 minutes. AF Racing Team's near-perfect consistency (0.53 s std dev) was the closest thing to a template for endurance driving on the day. FRT Juniors' pace in their opening stints was exceptional, but regularity across the full race distance is the real currency in endurance karting at Worldkarts Kortrijk.