Francesco Antonucci Ardigò Vergne Bressaglia Croxford Cristensen Foré Angerville

The final was about to start in just a few seconds, and then the thunderstorm broke out, raining on the plans of the drivers lined up on the grid. The only modification allowed by regulations was the switch to rain tyres, but some are willing to swear that in those chaotic minutes they saw mechanics put their hands just about everywhere. However, it is also a good idea to mention those drivers who, starting from the last rows, staked their chance at winning the race on a different setup with the exact hope of actually having that one-in-a-million chance. Thus, the miraculous comebacks – by Ardigò (who started 34th and finished 7th), Vergne (from 32nd to 10th), Bressaglia (from 30th to 13th), Croxford (from 24th to 9th) and Cristensen (from 23rd to 4th) – are plausibly explained by these drivers’ undoubted mastery of driving on wet racetracks, but also by their karts’ setup. Among them, Francesco Antonucci won the final, driving at quite faster than the others – his best lap was 1’02”813, just when he overtook Foré in the final, who was approximately 5 tenths of a second slower – at a pace he displayed as early as the prefinal, where, starting 33rd, he managed to gain no less than 24 positions. His was almost an Antichrist’s “miracle”, as opposed to the deus ex machina Foré, and the result of the classic winning combination of being the right man at the right time. So much that the compliments of a very heated paddock were all for him.