Supremacy for Max in 1st round of the World Championship KF

Published on 02 September 2013 by Niels Hendrix

Stunning victory for Max Verstappen and CRG in the first of the two races of the CIK-FIA World Championship KF run in England at Brandon's karting track. At the International PF circuit of Brandon it has been a quite perfect weekend, one worth the "Guinness World Records" due to the ideal union of a mature – despite the 15 years of age – champion like Max Verstappen and an excellent chassis like CRG and a performing engine like the TM by GFR Engines of the Briton Gordon Finlayson, with which the Italian outfit and the Dutch driver already won the European KF 2013 Championship.

Max Verstappen moved the assault to the victory in Brandon with the pole position, that was followed by a perfect path made by four wins out of four qualifying heats, the victory in the prefinal and that in the final with the satisfaction of the fastest lap of the race. In other words Brandon has witnessed absolute perfection and an unquestionable supremacy!

The second and last round of the World Championship KF will take place on Saturday 23rd November in Bahrain, but the focus of the team is now on another forthcoming round of the World Championship reserved to the two categories with the shift – i.e KZ and KZ2 – scheduled for next 22 September in Varennes (France). CRG will be racing with the works team made by Max Verstappen, Jordon Lennox-Lamb, Felice Tiene, Jonathan Thonon, Fabian Federer and Jorrit Pex. Davide Forè will be racing with the Polish team DTK. Giovanni Martinez will also be present in KZ2.
An attack lineup is therefore all set to racing again for another prestigious World Championship that is also one with great tradition in CRG's history.

Euan Jeffery, team manager CRG: "We are really satisfied on the good victory obtained by Max Verstappen; his performance was really impressive. He has been stunning throughout the weekend and has always been the driver to be beaten. In the final, after the start when he had some rivals close on to him, he found his pace and made a race on his own. We head back home from Brandon with the first place in the World Championship KF standings and that is a good feeling".

Max Verstappen: "The first laps in the final have been quite tough. I decided not to push too much to avoid stressing tires. Afterwards a battle started behind me and I could build some gap which kept increasing as towards the end of the race I could increase my speed. The CRG chassis has been perfect, I virtually did not make any change to it since Friday. The union of the chassis with TM engines by GFR is perfect. I am delighted, but we must not forget that we have another round to run in Bahrain before starting to celebrate the World Championship KF".

Standings of the CIK-FIA World Championship KF after the first round:
1. Verstappen (CRG/Tm) points 25; 2. Nielsen (Kosmic/Tm) 20; 3. Hanley (Art GP/Tm) 13; 4. Stupenkov (Energy/Tm) 13; 5. Stroll (Zanardi/Tm) 11; 6. Hansen (Tony Kart/Vortex) 10; 7. Tiene (CRG/Parilla) 9; 8. Hiltbrand (LH/Tm) 8; 9. Boccolacci (Energy/Tm) 7; 10. Palou (CRG/Parilla) 6; 11. Basz (Tony Kart/Vortex) 5; 12. Joyner (Zanardi/Tm) 4; 13. Russell (Kosmic/Tm) 3; 14. Romanov (Energy/Tm) 2; 15. Besancenez (Tony Kart/Tm) 1.

Niels Hendrix