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THE FOLKLORE OF GENK
The KZ World Championship, to which the KZ2 Super Cup and the Academy Trophy, were the “contours”, has left a clear mark on the 2018 international karting scene.
A painting without a frame is an incomplete picture; in the same way, a competition, spectacular and compelling as it may be, without support from the fans remains a melancholy event, deprived of warmth and folklore. In Genk, instead, the good old times seemed to have returned, a time when champions such as Alessandro Piccini and Gianluca Beggio competed on tracks surrounded by crowded grandstands. And in Genk, the races won by Patrik Hájek, Matteo Viganò and Kobe Pauwels were rightly valued by the many spectators who filled the grandstand, the paddock, and the grounds, proving that karting has not lost its charm, but that the way ahead is via promotion which, in Genk, the organizer proved formidable!