The OK Final in Valencia benefited from the same conditions as the morning’s Super Heats, with grey skies and a dry track.
Gabriel Gomez (CRG/Iame) got off to a great start, allowing Joe Turney (KR/Iame) to move back to 2nd ahead of Sebastiano Pavan (Tony Kart/Vortex), Lewis Wherrell (Exprit/TM) and Ean Eyckmans (Birel ART/TM). Pavan moved up to 2nd on the following lap, while Louis Iglesias (CRG/Iame) moved up to 5th. Miguel Costa (Parolin/TM) and Stepan Antonov (Energy/TM) went off the track quite violently. Iglesias attacked Wherrell for P4, with Anatoly Khavalkin (Parolin/TM) 5th ahead of Eyckmans. Pavan retired after a surprising manoeuvre by Turney. At the end of the first third of the race, Gomez was more than 2” ahead of Iglesias, who set the fastest time, chased by Wherrell. Khavalkin and Zac Drummond (Parolin/TM) followed in 5th and 6th places. At the halfway stage, Iglesias had reduced his gap to Gomez to 1.6 seconds. Thibaut Ramaekers (KR/Iame) had moved up six places to 8th and was attacking Matheus Morgatto (Birel ART/TM) for 7th. Eyckmans was struggling to keep up the pace and was regularly losing ground. Gomez maintained a gap of around 1.5″ to his team-mate Iglesias. Wherrell remained 3rd at 8 tenths and Turney 4th at 9 tenths. With two laps to go, Ramaekers moved back into the top five with a gain of nine places, but more than 2″ behind Turney. Gomez secured a fine victory 1.3″ ahead of Iglesias, Wherrell was 3rd at 0.670″ followed by Turney. Ramaekers was 5th ahead of Khavalkin and Drummond, Morgatto 8th, Davide Bottaro (CRG/Iame) 9th and Markas Silkunas (CRG/Iame) 10th.
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