"With that, ladies and gentlemen, the KF part of practice today comes to an end with a very interesting overall time table," Martina said as the Group C karts drove back to the pit lane, having completed their third and final free practice of the day. This gave all of the drivers a total of forty-five minutes on the track in stints of ten, fifteen, and twenty minutes.
It was designed specifically to allow for those who had their first drive in free practice to have a gradual acclimation to the track. Should they make mistakes in their first session, they wouldn't lose too much time and be at a disadvantage in the following sessions. Although it was a competition for these kids, it was still a learning phase, and the competition needed to allow for mistakes to happen and the opportunity to recover from them, retaining the spirit of karting.
