The Corridonia race shows the real value of the pilots emerged from Easykart and the professionalism of the Birel structure which is following them in KF3.

Corridonia - KF3 season continues for Birel pilots part of the youthful Easykart Driver Program and, after a bit of bad luck during the very first races and the necessity of a little testing of the technical structure (Birel Junior team) set up directly in the Birel section to manage the selected pilots, with the 4th appointment of the Open championship run at Corridonia, the first positive result arrived and underlined the formative level of Easykart and the efficacy reached by the Junior team. Pilots under contract with Birel, coming from the Easykart Trophy, are now five: Alberto Viberti, Riccardo Arone, Hubert Kalinowski, Radim Maxa and Kevin Lavelli. The Corridonia weekend began with a great double-declutch of Viberti and Maxa who gained the pole and the 2nd position during the qualifications run, under the rain. Great performance also for Lavelli (winner of a round) and Arone who, at the end of the eliminatory rounds, gained the 1st line for the Pre-Final. Unlucky was the poleman Viberti, forced to a catch up race (won with detach from the 2nd) due to a disqualify for under weight in the 1st round when he ended soon after the winner Maxa. The weather conditions changed fast and led to a wrong weight evaluation; taking off the rain tracksuit the minimum weight fell of 400 grams under the 145 kilos needed. Another proof of the Birel pilots competitiveness arrived during the Pre-Final where the young Kevin Lavelli (Birel -Iame) won his first race in KF3 with an unbelievable authority, catching up positions with perfect overtakes, till the crucial one over Riccardo Vullo. Great race also for Radim Maxa (Birel-Iame), 5th before Viberti (Birel -Vkr), who ended 6th after a great recover from the 29th position. Extremely bad race for Riccardo Arone (Birel-Vkr): during the last lap had a contact with Rossi, while he was in the 3rd position. Lavelli confirmed the podium also in Race-2 gaining the 3rd placement soon after Ercoli and Speedy. Great again Viberti, 4th before Basiliotti. Another bad day for Arone: he left the track while he was overtaking all the others; bad luck also for Maxa who ended up at 11th place after a contact which made him losing some positions. Young Kalinowski, after gaining the qualification for the Final, ended both the races around the 15th placement, going on in the maturation process of KF3. Marco Angeletti, of Birel marketing, on the Easykart Driver Program: "We are very satisfied by the work done 'till today, both for what is about the team and the pilots chosen. We passed a testing period, preparing a brand new structure completely dedicated to KF3, 'cause we needed to hone technical and managerial mechanisms. But in just 4 months we reached a high level of competence and professionalism, obtaining back great results for the work done by our technical team responsible, Alessandro Villa. We are all very satisfied also for the value of the pilots who, although very young, demonstrate how the preparatory classes of our promotional Easykart Trophy are formative and important to prepare in the best way pilots for higher categories. The Lavelli case is clear: he is such a young pilot who, thanks to Easykart Trophy, made a lot of races gaining an experience which is demonstrating to be decisive. The same for Viberti, Arone and Maxa, all pilots who now had the necessary experience to be protagonist in KF3 class. We keep on working with young pilots with a lot of new initiatives and we'll start following some 60cc Easykart pilots who will run the Opel 60cc Mini National competition, and we'll set some new KF3 tests for the best pilots of 100cc Easykart. All this will contribute to make Easykart more attractive as a formative gym for the ones who aim to superior classes."

MUNKHOLM / BIREL DOMINATE THE KF2 RACE:

The Racing Motor DK (Birel-Iame) driver wins the KF2 title despite a problem in the Pre-Final that seemed to have put him out of the race

Thy - for the Scandinavian countries that have always put highly talented drivers on the International scene, the Viking Trophy is a very prestigious title that is awarded in a single CIK-FIA trial. The 2009 edition of this important race took place at Thy in Denmark with an extremely high performance on the part of the Birel Racing Motor team with an historic one-two win in the KF2. The title went to Kevin Munkholm (Birel-Iame), already a leading player in the category European Championship Selection race at Genk, who dominated the weekend. In fact, Munkholm dominated all of the qualifying heats winning the pole for the Pre-Final, but unfortunately, at the beginning of the race he had a spark-plug problem and wasn't able to take the start. His ambitions for the title victory seemed to be finished, but instead, even though he started in last place in the Final, he succeeded in climbing back up to lead the race, winning with 2" over his team-mate, Hansen. Munkholm's performance and the performance of his Birel RY 30 -S1 chassis was exceptional, the type that is rarely seen in an international event with so many qualified drivers at the starting line. To climb back up from last place, demonstrating such a clear superiority proves the talent of the young Racing Motor driver who, for the next European KF2 champion, has thus won a spot on the official Birel team. Patrick Hansen's performance (Birel-Iame) should also be highlighted; he closed in 2nd place ahead of Moller Madsen.

GOOD BALANCE IN KZ2 AND KF2, WHERE THE YOUNG ROSSLER , OF THE ITALSPORT KRP TEAM, SHINES

In spite of the 'lottery' caused by the rain fallen on Sunday morning, Birel colors shine in KZ" with Laudato and Mich, 2nd and 3rd, as well as in KF2 with the 2nd placement of Rossler

Genk (Belgium) - WSK circus closed also the 4th seasonal appointment run on the Belgian track of Genk (Belgium), where Birel pilots had been protagonists in all the classes: KF3, KF2 and KZ2. Absent only the main class, SFK, the scepter passed to KZ2 that for the occasion, seen pilots like Sauro Cesetti and Antonio Piccioni (RK team), Ardigò, Forè, Kozlinski and Catt running. The competition weekend had been influenced by the rain fallen on Saturday morning which made the results unforeseeable.

In KZ2 qualification seen Lammers as leader, made the pole while Birel pilots suffered the slippery track working hard to find their best set up. The best Birel man was Sauro Cesetti with his 13th position while Laudato and Mich reached only a place after the 15th. At the end of qualifications the balance for Birel pilots improved and during the finals they were all able to gain a placement in the high zone of the ranking. But then the rain come and spoiled the competition. Cesetti was very fast and conquered the 3rd place soon after Lammers and Ardigò, while Mich and Laudato ended in 8th and 9th placement after the couple Forè-Kozlinski. In Final the track was still humid and slick tires had been used. These bad track condition led the race leader Lammers to a fatal error and ended at 19th place. The same happened to Sauro Cesetti who was running for the 2nd position. However he gained the 4th place after his mates Laudato and Mich. The leader of the race was Marco Ardigò who won after Laudato, Mich and Cesetti. At 5th placement there is Renaudie, then Forè, Puhakka and Bressan. With two pilots on the podium and Cesetti at the 4th place, Birel obtained a good balance and now they can look over the rest of the season with optimism and aim to the victory. In the championship ranking Lammers leads the chart with 85 points, while Laudato is now at the 4th place after his team mate Mich.

Also KF2 saw the rain falling down after the Pre-Final and amongst the Birel pilots a great Jesper Rossler (Birel-Iame). The Italsport KRP team pilot made the 8th time in qualification with only 123 thousandths of a second from the poleman Tiene. But then he was unlucky and lost two races for some technical problems. So after the victory in the last race and a 8th placement in the second round, he had to make a recovery race to access to the Pre-Final where he obtained a great 8th place. But his masterpiece arrived during the Final. When the track dried he expressed himself at high levels and gained the 2nd place after the winner Cooper and improved of 5 tenths of a second Moller Madsen's time. Great weekend also for the other Birel pilots with Hauke (KSB team) at 7th place, 10th in Pre-Final and 12th in Final while unlucky for Basz (RK team) and Viganò (MGM team); the first one had some technical problems and missed the Final while Viganò, after some difficult qualifications, had a problem with the engine in Race 1 and an accident in the second Final, leaving Belgium without a point. In the general ranking, the leaderships is now of Cooper (155 points).

In KF3 the young Riccardo Agostino, after his 10th place in qualification and 4th position at the Pre-Final beginning, proved to deserve the podium. But then the rain twisted all the forecasts, causing a lot of accidents which revolutionized the ranking but, above all, forced the young pilot to retire after only six laps. Unfortunately, starting from the end of the lining up, also during the Final he had been crashed by Sainz during the very first lap. Then Agostini made up some positions till the 20th and making the 3rd best time in race. In the end he left Belgium very embittered because the zero signed in the championship does not reflect his real potential. A lot better for Welsh who, after ending the Pre-Final at the 25th place due to some contacts, in Final went up till the 8th placement showing some great levels. Great performances also for Detmers (KSB team) who suffered for two leavings the track that avoided him to obtain a better placement and gain points for the championship.

Next appointment with WSK will be at Salbris, France, the weekend of the 26th of June when KZ2, KF2 and KF3 classes will be back on track.

In Super KF some technical problems downsize Birel pilots ambitions, while in KF2 Patrono won a positive podium.

SUZUKA - The Asian transfer of Birel team had started uphill soon before the team arrived in Japan. A part of race motors, indeed, due to a problem with the air shipment did not arrive, forcing Birel Motorsport to cope with the race without a significant part of the technical equipment. The mistake generated a lot of nerviness in the team and the objective handicap of finding some emergency solution on-site. Once the race week end started, there was a problem in the pneumatics adaptation which ended up in a difficult qualification for all the Birel pilots, above all in the main class, Super KF. In Pre-Final, the race that after qualification rounds determines the starting grid for the World Cup and outlines clearly the values, Grince has immediately gone out of the scene, while the first Birel pilot was Cesetti with his 12th placement. Soon after him, with quite similar performances, there were Parrot and Toman, while De Brabander won. In Final, Cesetti started very well and soon gained the firsts wake, but unfortunately a technical broken down forced him to retire after only 4 laps. The fight of the very first laps penalized Toman who bumped from 13th position to the 21st during the 5th lap. The Czech, 2nd last year in the World Cup and also in the KF1 World Cup, started his recovery till ended up the race in the 15th position, soon after his team mates Kawabata and Katsuta. A lot better for Janson Parrott who ended up in 8th placement with a very good competition, coming up from the 12th position thanks to a double overtaking of Bressen and Hanley. De Brabander won the race, first against Renaudie.

In KF2 Viganò, Suvanto and Patrono expressed themselves on great levels, ended up the race in 5th, 6th and 11th placement. In Pre-Final, Meheta took Birel Pacific colors to the 10th placement. The winning and the starting pole for the Final of the Asian Pacific race, had been gained by the English Cooper, before Tiene. In any case, the analysis of all the values in race told that at list five pilots would have fight for the podium. An amongst these, Patrono and Viganò for sure. This forecast had been confirmed by a hard and exciting race, where Giacomo Patrono sprang up to the 4th place soon after Cooper, Beretta and Tiene. Viganò, run from the 9th placement at the end of the 1st lap, but soon at the 3rd lap he was in the 7th position, overtaking Taylor and Kanamaru. The end of the race arrived only at the 21st lap when the group was still in the lead: Tiene overtook Cooper who has been overtaken also by Baretta and Patrono. Tiene won then the Asian Pacific 2009 title, but Patrono ending up on 3rd position, soon after Beretta gave a great result to Birel colors in an international meeting. Smarrazzo, after trying to overtake Patrono, ended up in 4th place and, while Viganò closed his race in the 7th position. Very good also the 13th place of Suto, while Suvanto was forced to retire because of a bad contact during the first laps.
Andy Cox