Max on the podium in the European KF Championship of Alcaniz

Published on 16 June 2013 by Niels Hendrix

CRG obtained a good podium with Max Verstappen in the first round of the European CIK-FIA KF Championship that took place at the Motorland Aragon Circuit of Alcaniz. The Spanish weekend had the whole CRG works team as protagonist in a red-hot summer-start with air temperatures beyond 39 Celsius degrees on Sunday! The final result could have been even better for Verstappen though, who was racing with TM engine.

Max Verstappen has been protagonist in the heats of Alcaniz and despite an incident he managed to get an easy win in his prefinal. In the final he had a technical problem that made him lose some ground to the front-runners, the two Danish drivers Nielsen and Sorensen, but managed afterwards to recover all the way to challenge Sorensen for the second place in the finale.
The second and last round of the KF and KF Junior European Championships is scheduled for next 21 July at Ortona's International Circuit of Abruzzo.

Euan Jeffery, team manager CRG: "Things could have worked out better for us, but in the end they did not go that bad after all. We scored good points in KF and we are within the title fight. Max Verstappen has been very fast as usual but suffered a sudden thrust loss otherwise I believe he would have taken the first two drivers. Both our drivers are in good shape and they will have the chance to fight for the title in Ortona.

Max Verstappen: "In the final the start was not really perfect but I could stay on the outside and I came out in third. After the first couple of laps things got worse when people with new tires tried to pass me but later on, when the grip came back in the middle of the race it was quite good instead and I was catching the front runners. Then again I had a problem to my kart and I lost almost a second but then there I was catching them again. In the last lap I could have probably overtaken the front runners but I did not want to take the risk to crash. The next race will be in Ortona, I have never been there but we still have good chances to get the title there. I'd like to thank CRG and all the people that helped me in this weekend starting from my dad".

Niels Hendrix