THE FACTS
Everyone knows by now, but it is good to start from the beginning because 3 October 2021 is one of the dates that can (or could?) change karting. We are in the first laps of the day’s key Final, the OK: the engines are firing up this weekend for the upcoming World Championship and the key players are all there, in Adria, from the official to the most famous teams. The frontrunners are extremely fast, but the fight for positions behind them is as fierce as always. A sudden deviation of a driver in the middle of the group, perhaps a micro-contact, very normal in the race, sends Nicola Lacorte (KR) into a spin at the fast chicane that leads to the short central counter-straight of the track. His spinning kart, whose wheels turn ‘by inertia’ in the opposite direction to that of travel, re-ignites in “reverse” and starts again, madly aiming for the opposite stretch of track, where the first group is passing at very high speed. There are no barriers of any kind between the two sections of the circuit and a group of drivers sees the trajectory invaded by Lacorte’s kart, two, in particular: Eliska Babickova and Zach David, ironically, Nicola’s teammates from KR.