Camplese Wins Macau International Karting GP

Lorenzo Camplese

Lorenzo Camplese won the CIK FIA Asia-Pacific KZ Championship, which was held on the weekend at the Macau Karting Circuit in Coloane.
The Italian racer was the best of the 24 drivers racing in the main category. In total, the competitors represented 10 countries and territories. The international competition attracted a strong Australian contingent to compete against Asia’s best, alongside some great European and American talent. All competitors showed their best skills throughout the weekend, right up until the final race, which was held yesterday afternoon.
Events unfolded as expected in yesterday’s race. Soon the favorites started to show their skills with the two drivers from Italy’s Parolin Racing Kart Factory team taking the lead. Lorenzo Camplese and Francesco Celenta were clearly on top, followed by the very fast but inconsistent Dutchman, Marijn Kremers.
Kremers was, in fact, the fastest man on track and the only driver able to complete a lap at the Coloane Karting Circuit in less than 47 seconds (46.980s). However, his inconsistency, along with penalties over his car’s front fairing position upon completion of the race, relegated him to sixth position overall after having finished third.
Frenchman Hubert Petit was the driver to benefit from Kremers’s penalty; after a great race that saw him finish fourth, he was elevated to third on the podium.
Two Australians, Darren Burke and Tom Williamson, finished in the top five.
The best of the Asians was Sulaiman Noor Senna from Indonesia, who finished tenth overall.
Among the Hong Kong and Macau racers, Jacky Chan from HK performed the best, finishing in 12th position, six places ahead of the sole Macau representative, João Afonso. Afonso might have finished in a better position had he not been involved in a crash in the final lap.