The 33rd Andrea Margutti Trophy organized by Parma Motorsport and scheduled for the weekend of April 3rd at the South Garda Karting Circuit of Lonato is setting a new participation record with 292 entered drivers. The entitled categories are MINI, OKJ, KZ2, X30 Junior and X30 Senior.

Parma, March 24, 2022. A record event is ahead on the occasion of the 33rd Andrea Margutti Trophy. The race organized by Parma Motorsport counts in fact over 290 drivers for the appointment of April 1-3 at the South Garda Karting of Lonato. This is the new participation record for the event that was started back in 1990 in memory of the young Andrea Margutti, who passed away at only 14 years of age. Since then, the Margutti family together with all the drivers and mates of Andrea like Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella wanted an event to honour his memory.

Entry lists are full.

The 33rd edition of the event features full entry lists in MINI with 108 drivers and KZ2 with 72 drivers, but the other categories will have important numbers too as 25 drivers will be present in OK-Junior, 35 in X30 Junior and 52 in X30 Senior. The total is of 292 drivers!

43 Nations represented.

In total, 43 countries will be represented in this event. Sweden is the most highly represented country with 19 drivers, while Team Driver Racing Kart is the biggest team with 23 participants. This is a big step forward for the Andrea Margutti Trophy compared to the past few editions as in 2021 the 260 entered drivers came from 37 countries.

Champions to the fore.

Among the entrants, the 2021 European Champion and winner of the Margutti Trophy of 2017 Riccardo Longhi will be present in KZ2, as the two times Italian Champion (2020 and 2021) Giuseppe Palomba of team LG Motorsport. Danilo Albanese will compete with KR Motorsport and Alessio Piccini with Tribe One Motorsport, the former European Champion Andrea Dalè will also be present.

Ok-Junior will be among the entitled categories this time around, after skipping edition 2021. Virtually all the entered drivers will come to Italy from abroad with the objective of shining in an international event like the Andrea Margutti Trophy.

A lot of strong drivers will aim to the victory in MINI. Among these, the Spanish driver Christian Costoya of Parolin Motorsport, Filippo Sala of Team Driver, the Dutch Dean Hoogendoorn on Alonso Kart by Kidix, Danil Kutskov and Iacopo Martinese on BabyRace.

Considering the favourites of X30 Junior, Alessandro Minetto will compete among the fields of Gamoto, Antonio Apicella and Kilian Josseron of Team Driver, Riccardi Cirelli of Autoeuropeo and Giacomo Maman of TB Kart.

X30 Senior will feature a good bunch of champions, starting from Danny Carenini with Team Driver and his teammate Sebastiano Pavan, the winner of last year’s Margutti Trophy Cristian Comanducci of PRK and the two times winner of the Margutti Trophy (2019 and 2020) Edoardo Ludovico Villa.

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Parma Motorsport Ssd
Press Office
24.03.2022