ICA decision-2025-02 – Hearing 15 09 25 – Prema Racing S.r.l. - 2025 OK-Junior European Championship Mondokart.com

Sport news Hearing Case ICA-2025-02: Appeal lodged by Prema Racing S.r.l. against Decision No. 247 dated 8 June 2025 of  the Stewards  of  the  event  of  Viterbo  (Italy),  counting  towards  the  2025  OK-Junior European Championship Mondokart.com. On 8 June 2025, on the first lap of the Super Heat A of the FIA Karting European Championship – OK Junior in Viterbo, a contact occurred between Driver No. 202, Noah Baglin (Prema Racing) and Driver No. 203, Bosco Arias (Ricky Flynn Motorsport). Both drivers were forced off track following wheel-to-wheel contact in the approach to Turn 1, an incident which was deemed a typical racing occurrence and not reported to the Stewards. Upon exiting his kart, Driver No. 202 reacted by first clapping his hands in the direction of Driver No. 203, then he raised his middle finger up in the air. The Stewards subsequently decided to disqualify Driver No. 202 and remove five points on his Digital Licence, finding that his behaviour [“Unsportsmanlike manner towards another driver” (“obscene hand signals”)] constituted a misconduct under Article 12.2.1.l of the FIA International Sporting Code. On 12 June 2025, the Appellant lodged an appeal against the Stewards’ Decision before the ICA. Decision of the International Court of Appeal The Court, after having heard the parties and examined their submissions, decided: to declare the appeal admissible; to uphold the Decision No. 247 dated 8 June 2025 of the Stewards of the Viterbo Competition (Italy) counting towards the 2025 Mondokart.com FIA Karting European Championship – OK Junior. The International Court of Appeal was presided over by Ms Waltraud WÜNSCH (Germany), and included, Mr Xavier BONE MATHEU (Spain), Mr Martin MAISNER (Czech Republic) and Mr Kyle NOVAK (USA). The full decision is available here .   FIA Karting European Championship - Junior ICA International Court of Appeal SEASON 2025 Sport Circuit 1SportFIA Karting European Championship - JuniorCircuitInternational Court of AppealSEASON 2025ICA00 Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - 5:48pm Tuesday, September 30, 2025 - 5:48pm