Team Kinetiz Wins Europe’s First 5-Car Autonomous Race at Imola
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Team Kinetiz Wins Europe’s First 5-Car Autonomous Race at Imola
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Summary
Team Kinetiz charged from fourth on the grid to win the 12-lap Imola race by 10.963 seconds, taking Europe’s first multi-car autonomous racing victory.
A crash reshaped the race after pole-sitter Unimore slowed with a technical problem and PoliMOVE hit it from behind, knocking both cars out; Constructor Racing finished second and PoliMOVE was classified third.
Five teams entered A2RL’s first event outside Abu Dhabi in identical EAV-25 cars, making software the main differentiator; two-time champion TUM dropped out on the formation lap with a technical issue.
At Imola, autonomous cars reached about 157 mph, and recent testing put the fastest lap within 0.85 seconds of a benchmark set by driver Juju Noda.
The Imola event, coming two days after a Laguna Seca autonomous race in California, marked another step toward a global championship while testing whether fans will embrace racing without drivers.