Benjamin Kaivers wins first edition of the Belgian National Championship at Dolhain
Last weekend it was time for the first edition of the Belgian National Championship. An individual championship organised by Gregory Laporte and Mathias Grooten, both very well known in the indoor karting scene. The BNC is also the official qualifier for the KWC.
Hurricane Karting Dolhain
This first edition took place at Hurricane Karting in Dolhain. This track is known to have very small kart differences and has experience with organising some big sprint championships and endurances.
The championship started with 5 qualifier rounds. Each a race of 18 laps, preceded by a 1-hotlap qualification.
Every race you had to take 1 pitstop and in the end, one result could be dropped.
Drivers had to weigh 90 kgs at all times.
30 drivers competed in this event, which is a bit less than hoped for, but it was still a very competitive field!
During these rounds several drivers were able to take podium places, so the level was very strong.
After the qualifier rounds, the ranking was as followed:
BNC 2016 Ranking after 5 rounds
With only the top 10 going to the final, there was still a lot that could change with the semi finals ahead.
In the end, after the semi finals, the top 10 stayed the same, except for Tristan Földesi who lost his spot to the final to Mats de Jong. He only missed it with 1 point. Also Ward Maenhout, Bastien Cabrera and Sam Spinnael came close to a final spot with only missing 5, 7 and 9 points from the 10th place.
BNC 2016 Ranking after semi finals
BNC 2016 10 drivers in Final
For the final an unseen format was used. Every driver would do 10 hotlaps with 10 different karts. The laptimes are counted together and the winner is the fastest driver. Also depending on the position in the ranking the drivers got some bonus time to take into account.
BNC 2016 Final results
It’s Benjamin Kaivers who can call himself Belgian National Champion this year! Yoan Médart comes in second with only 0,041 difference (after being fastest in the final) and Romano Franssen finishes 3th, with only 0,032 lead on 4th place Christophe Verhoeven. Stefan Verhofsté closes the top 5 with a gap of 1.076 seconds on the winner.
The top 3 gets a free entry for the KWC in Italy this summer.
Rico Haarbosch won a free entry for BRKC 2017 and Logan Sougné won a free entry for PIKC 2017!
Podium BNC 2016
BNC 2016 Group picture
Link to the final ranking (second tab is the result of the final)
UPDATE
Interview with Gregory Laporte (in Dutch) after the championship: click.
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