18/05/2025
26H KARTING SAINTES:
We went with the idea to fight for a podium in the AM-class. Why not PRO? Because we don’t have a lot of Endurance experience, yet.
First of all, what very nice journey we had for this event and what a team!
From travelling together, sticking together for 3 days, taking care of each other & helping each other though these hard conditions. Knowing our team was made out of Dorian & Kjell, Erik 🇸🇪& Michélé 🇮🇹
Dorian set us in P.12 (P.4 in class) to start this promising, long and physical race of 26h.
Dorian took the Le Mans start and made it a great one, going from P.12 to P.8 and after a couple of laps immediatly in P.1 in class, from there on, we were expecting a long battle for the podium in our class. But we managed to keep good pace, great strategy, a smile on the face and a fighters mentality.
Going into the darkness, Michélé was involved in a big crash. We had no communications anymore and the organisation came running to our tent to have another driver going into the kart. We managed the situation well and luckily after a medical check, all was good and after a good night rest, he was back like never before in the morning. But, this also meant that the night needed - unexpected - to be driven by 3 drivers instead of 4. It was cold, we didn’t had a lot of sleep at that moment, so it was fighting on track but also with ourselves. But we said it from the beginning, we stick together.
Long story short, we had a few troubles, which are normal in a race like this, and we managed all of them the best we could. We ended a decent P.1 in class with over 6 laps on P.2 and a beautiful P.9 in general 🏁
This really is what we came for and what we deserved after this long race 🏆
We want to thank the whole team of Karting Saintes for the perfect organisation, the good food and there friendliness during the whole weekend.
Now, time for some sleep and see you all soon on track 🏁🏆