ROK Cup Superfinal 2026: Friday Report
Godschalk wins final heat race as handful of drivers remain in contention in Italy
The ROK Cup Superfinal is the year-end event for drivers from around the world in the ROK category, meeting at the historic South Garda Karting facility in Lonato, Italy over October 13-17. More than 400 drivers from over 35 different countries are set to compete in the 10 categories.
Drivers from the United States have gained success over the event that has been running since the mid-2000s. Drivers to win includes Derek Wang (Expert Plus – 2024), Ariel Castro (Expert Plus – 2023), Vivek Kanthan (Mini ROK – 2022), Renato Jader David (Expert – 2022/2020), Alex Powell (Mini ROK – 2019), and current NASCAR driver Connor Zilisch (Mini ROK – 2017). Canada has seen its share of success, including victories by Jayden Francisco (Mini ROK U10) last year and Jensen Burnett (Mini ROK – 2021).
The ROK Cup Superfinal 2026 begins on October 13 with four rounds of practice for all 10 classes. Wednesday features one official practice, followed by qualifying and the opening round of heat races. Heat races continue Thursday and Friday before grids are set for the Prefinals Sunday morning. The main events will then be held on Sunday afternoon.
EKN will have recaps for each USA and Canada driver, who are part of the more than 60 drivers representing ROK Cup USA, each day to allow viewers to follow their progress at the ROK Cup Superfinal 2026. Below are results from Friday action.
VLR ROK:
#960 – Roman Doria (CAN)
Qualifying: 1st – 51.443 +0.094
Warm Up: 2nd – 51.969 +0.206
Heat 4: 20th +3 Lap – 52.402
Heat Points: 11th – 45 points
Prefinal: DNS
Final Points: 13th – 67 points
#958 – Dante Rodriguez (USA)
Qualifying: 18th – 52.403 +0.960
Warm Up: 16th – 52.960 +1.197
Heat 4: 11th +8.911 – 52.786
Heat Points: 10th – 43 points
Prefinal: 12th +5.441 – 52.698
Final Points: 8th – 53 points
#951 – Enzo Vidmontiene (USA)
Qualifying: 9th – 51.953 +0.510
Warm Up: 9th – 52.364 +0.601
Heat 4: 7th +1.830 – 52.248
Heat Points: 7th – 31 points
Prefinal: 3rd +1.097 – 52.312
Final Points: 7th – 34 points
VLR Junior ROK:
#908 – Roy Chang (CAN)
Qualifying: 9th – 53.190 +0.462
Warm Up: 13th – 53.359 +0.561
Heat 4: 7th +1.498 – 53.982
Heat Points: 6th – 35 points
Prefinal: 8th +5.067 – 53.742
Final Points: 6th – 43 points
#903 – Thomas Du (CAN)
Qualifying: 12th – 53.453 +0.725
Warm Up: 14th – 53.482 +0.684
Heat 4: DSQ
Heat Points: 19th – 68 points
Prefinal: 18th +29.715 – 53.637
Final Points: 19th – 86 points
#902 – Lawrence Peremen (USA)
Qualifying: 14th – 53.757 +1.029
Warm Up: 12th – 53.347 +0.549
Heat 4: 3rd +0.332 – 54.757
Heat Points: 4th – 17 points
Prefinal: 4th +0.443 – 53.340
Final Points: 4th – 21 points
#909 – Colton Schniegenberg (USA)
Qualifying: 6th – 53.116 +0.388
Warm Up: 3rd – 53.037 +0.239
Heat 4: 2nd +0.138 – 54.975
Heat Points: 2nd – 10 points
Prefinal: 2nd +0.098 – 53.255
Final Points: 2nd – 12 points
Expert ROK:
#721 – Kevin Ye (CAN)
Qualifying: 12th – 49.488 +0.936
Warm Up: 11th – 50.113 +0.925
Heat 4: 12th +11.160 – 50.095
Heat Points: 14th – 55 points
Prefinal: 18th +7 Laps – 52.008
Final Points: 15th – 73 points
Mini ROK U10:
#38 – Brody Brown (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 20th
Heat Race Group D
Warm Up (Group 2): 14th – 57.084 +0.835
Heat BvsD: 6th +10.012 – 56.855
Heat Points: 9th – 21 points
#28 – Dan Duculescu (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 14th
Heat Race Group B
Warm Up (Group 2): 11th – 56.912 +0.663
Heat BvsD: 10th +11.437 – 56.888
Heat Points: 24th – 39 points
#51 – Jayden Francisco (CAN)
Qualifying (Overall): 2nd
Heat Race Group B
Warm Up (Group 2): 3rd – 56.380 +0.131
Heat BvsD: 1st +1.566 – 56.374
Heat Points: 13th – 25 points
#48 – Zev Godschalk (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 9th
Heat Race Group A
Warm Up (Group 1): 2nd – 56.318 +0.115
Heat AvsC: 1st +0.206 – 58.705
Heat Points: 1st – 2 points
#18 – Jack Kotowski (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 7th
Heat Race Group C
Warm Up (Group 1): 5th – 56.583 +0.380
Heat AvsC: 20th +4 Laps – 59.150
Heat Points: 16th – 27 points
#44 – Bret ‘Dutch’ Westbrook (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 1st
Heat Race Group A
Warm Up (Group 1): 4th – 56.476 +0.273
Heat AvsC: 3rd +0.480 – 58.324
Heat Points: 3rd – 11 points
Mini ROK:
#138 – Luke Bulpitt (CAN)
Qualifying (Overall): 37th
Heat Race Group A
Warm Up (Group 2): 22nd – 56.522 +1.259
Heat AvsC: 10th +5.058 – 55.884
Heat Points: 28th – 43 points
#110 – Lucas Tarango (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 13th
Heat Race Group A
Warm Up (Group 2): 13th – 55.690 +0.427
Heat AvsC: 14th +6.809 – 55.778
Heat Points: 21st – 37 points
Junior ROK:
#232 – Josh Bergman (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 27th
Heat Race Group B
Warm Up (Group 1): 10th – 50.587 +0.690
Heat BvsE: 20th +13.591 – 50.134 (Penalty)
Heat BvsC: 14th +11.233 – 50.113 (Penalty)
Heat Points: 28th – 51 points (Prefinal B)
#250 – Cason Hodge (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 21st
Heat Race Group A
Warm Up (Group 1): 11th – 50.622 +0.725
Heat AvsC: 5th +5.462 – 50.109
Heat AvsD: 5th +9.185 – 50.405
Heat Points: 25th – 47 points (Prefinal A)
#209 – Nicholas Kotowski (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 10th
Heat Race Group E
Warm Up (Group 2): 20th – 50.761 +0.958
Heat BvsE: 4th +6.383 – 50.391
Heat Points: 6th – 15 points (Prefinal B)
#233 – Robert Tronchi (CAN)
Qualifying (Overall): 15th
Heat Race Group E
Warm Up (Group 1): 26th – 51.544 +1.647
Heat BvsE: 8th +7.928 – 50.175
Heat Points: 19th – 36 points (Prefinal A)
Super ROK:
#627 – Blake Nash (USA)
Qualifying: 8th – 47.448 +0.295
Warm Up: 3rd – 48.636 +0.155
Heat 3: 3rd +2.704 – 47.815
Heat 4: 23rd +3 Laps – 49.150
Heat Points: 5th – 34 points
Senior ROK:
#404 – Stephen Eisert (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 33rd
Heat Race Group C
Warm Up (Group 2): 18th – 48.958 +0.756
Heat AvsC: 16th +17.468 – 48.566 (Penalty)
Heat BvsC: 10th +7.341 – 48.646
Heat Points: 27th – 42 points (Prefinal A)
#462 – Alan Isambard (USA)
Qualifying (Overall): 3rd
Heat Race Group C
Warm Up (Group 2): 1st – 48.202 +0.072
Heat AvsC: 3rd +1.593 – 47.904
Heat BvsC: 2nd +0.541 – 48.135
Heat Points: 2nd – 7 points (Prefinal B)
Shifter ROK:
#814 – Dominik Karai (USA)
Qualifying: 10th – 47.154 +0.864
Warm Up: 7th – 48.261 +0.700
Heat 3: 15th +10 Laps
Heat 4: 13th +15.190 – 47.636
Heat Points: 10th – 40 points
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