Oscar Inside Top Ten In Spain


  publish date 2016

Australian junior karter Oscar Piastri is inside the top ten after the opening day of competition at the European Championship in Spain.

Driving FA Kart with Ricky Flynn Motorsport, Piastri qualified 25th in a field of 75.

"After posting some good lap times in practice I was a little disappointed with qualifying in P25" he said, "I had really good speed but unfortunately on my fast lap I made a mistake in sector 2 which cost me a lot of time and meant I would start each race from P10 on the outside of the grid."

Strong heat results of 5th, 10th, 4th and 3rd ranks Oscar 9th overall and he will start P5 in Pre-Final A.

Kiwi Marcus Armstrong qualified 8th in KZ but has droppped to 11th after heat reslts of 16th and 5th.

  • Full results on cikfia.com HERE (then click the link for Sunday night's live stream)


Above: Oscar and his team in Spain
pic - Piastri/Facebook

press release

It was an eventful racing day in Zuera (Spain) at the European CIK-FIA Championship round, with 14 races during the afternoon and tough racing conditions because of the wind which blew incessantly over the 1,700 metre track.

In the OK, hat trick for Tom Joyner

Since qualifying, Tom Joyner (Zanardi-Parilla-Vega) was the driver to beat: he set the best time and then achieved the pole in the Pre-final thanks to two victories in the heats. Next to the Brit, the Spanish Marta Garcia (EvoKart-Parilla-Vega) did a great performance and grabbed the second position, thanks to a second and a seventh place. Second row for the American Logan Sargeant (FA-Vortex-Vega) and the Spanish Pedro Hiltbrand (CRG-Parilla-Vega), eager to put in a good performance in front of his public.


Above: Tom Joyner (Zanardi/Parilla), OK
pic - WSK promotion

In KZ Hajek is the leader

The protagonists of the heats in KZ were the Czech Patrik Hajek (Kosmic-Vortex-Vega) and the Dutch Bas Lammmers (Sodi-TM-Vega). They scored a victory and a second place each and, eventually, it was Hajek who grabbed the pole in the Pre-final thanks to his best time in qualifying. Second row for the French Jeremy Iglesias (Sodi-TM-Vega) and the Dutch Stan Pex (CRG-Vortex-Vega).


Above: Patrik Hajek (Kosmic-Vortex), KZ
pic - WSK promotion

Watt and Taoufik in Pole in the OKJ Pre-finals

Two victories and two second places allowed the Danish Noah Watt (Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) to grab the pole in the Pre-final 1 of the OKJ. Next to him, the Swedish Isac Blomqvist (Tony Kart-Vortex), who won twice too. Three victories for the Moroccan Sami Taoufik, the pole-sitter of the Pre-final 2; second slot for the British Finlay Kenneally (both on FA Kart-Vortex). The other two heats were won by the Russian Pavel Bulantsev and the Spanish David Vidales (both on Tony Kart-Vortex).


Above: Noah Watt (Tony Kart-Vortex), OK-J
pic - WSK promotion

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