JULIA ANGELARD TOOK PART IN THE POLISH KARTING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN POZNAŃ

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  • The second of three rounds of the Polish Karting Championships, which took place on June 13-15, 2025 at the Poznań Circuit, is behind us.
  • Julia Angelard showed excellent pace in the qualifying session as well as in the individual races, tearing through the field and even taking the lead.
  • Unfortunately, bad luck meant that collisions between other drivers in front of Julia or with her kart prevented the teenage JSTR by Jastrzębski Racing driver from showing her full potential.
  • The 13-year-old competitor will compete in the fifth round of the ROK Cup Italia this weekend, taking place at the South Garda Karting track in Lonato.

Despite her absence from the first round of the Polish Karting Championship, Julia Angelard came to Poznań with a positive attitude. The goal of the 13-year-old Minardi Management protégé was to gain further experience and at the same time test herself in a completely different group, on Polish soil. And although after both training sessions she did not let her rivals feel her actual pace, the next stages of the competition on the Poznań Track brought surprising results for them.

A hair’s breadth from pole position
Already during the qualifying training, which determined the starting order for the first of four races held as part of the KMP round, Julia Angelard decided to show what she was made of. Starting in a group of sixteen competitors, she came in a sensational second place, losing only 0.006 seconds to the best time of this session. The solid result resulted in a start from the first row, however, after only three laps, as a result of contact with another competitor, Julia went off the track, ending the competition.

This meant starting the second Saturday race from a distant 14th position. With surgical precision, overtaking her rivals, the teenage driver moved up 9 places, placing herself in fifth position as the highest classified competitor. This result also meant fifth place at the start of Sunday’s competition at the facility belonging to the Wielkopolski Automobile Club.

Sunday with an appetite for more
Sunday morning brought two more races, and thus two opportunities to fight for points. During the first race, Julia, thanks to a solid start, found herself in second position in the first corner, and after a moment took over the leader’s seat and set the pace of the competition. Unfortunately, her rivals managed to catch up with the JSTR by Jastrzębski Racing rider, but Julia’s pace allowed her to finish the race just off the podium, in fourth position.

This allowed us to think about a good result of the last of four races in this round of the Polish Karting Championships. Unfortunately, a collision between two rivals directly in front of Julia meant that the 13-year-old competitor had nowhere to run, and as a result she also dropped out of the competition, to end up in 10th place in the general classification of the entire round with 27 points.

Julia Angelard: It’s nice to be back competing in Poland
“What a weekend it was – full of ups and downs. It started strongly, with a great P2 in qualifying. Then came a difficult moment – I was hit by another driver in the race, which caused me to drop out. In the second race I pushed hard, fighting for promotion and thanks to brave maneuvers on the track I came back from P14 to P5. On Sunday morning I managed to move up to 4th place, with a real chance to fight for even more in the last race. I had a good start and gained a few positions, but my rivals did not stay indebted. Towards the end of the race there was an accident right in front of me – I had nowhere to run and this situation ended my race. Despite everything, I showed great pace and had great fights on the track. We will definitely draw many conclusions from this round,” emphasizes the JSTR by Jastrzębski Racing driver.

Julia Angelard is not slowing down. This coming weekend, the teenager will take part in the fifth round of the ROK Cup Italia series, held at the South Garda Karting track in Lonato, Italy. This is a special round due to the fact that the final races will take place on Saturday after dusk, under artificial lighting. For this reason, the “night Lonato” attracts a lot of competitors from other racing series.