With the rain, the puddles of water multiply on the circuit, the track slips and a badly negotiated turn quickly ends in a spin.
Not enough to demotivate Amine, barely 5 years old and already a master in the art of handling the kart.
Often compared to the seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, the young man behind the wheel hopes to pursue his passion to maybe one day get into a single-seater and make the engine roar on the starting grid.
"To realize his dream, there is still a long way to go", proclaims Amine's father, David Pantoli.
“Motorsport is a sport for the rich, it costs a lot,” he explains, specifying that a competitive karting season amounts to spending between 10,000 and 150,000 euros.
"It's a sacrifice, besides my apartment is still not furnished".
Only financial support from sponsors or partners will pay Amine a year of practice when she turns 6.
As a last resort, David relies on an online kitty that he launched with the support of professionals in the discipline, such as Formula 2 driver Victor Jabouille.
At two years and eleven months old, Amine made her first turns in a parking lot in Lieusaint.
“I like speed, I like to overtake,” slips the boy.
But in France, children cannot drive on the track before the age of 6.
So David takes her to Belgium.
“We had sessions once a month.
And when we got home, he kept wanting to go back!
"
"He's a kid who has a lot of concentration," says Damien De Dobbeleer, father of a karting friend of Amine who follows him with his eyes on the track.
“At his age, that's an advantage,” he continues.
It definitely has the potential to compete with some mini class warriors.
"There are so many other things to do in motorsport without having the budgets for Formula 1, that Amine can have hope," said Anthony Dessaudes, director of Karting Haute Picardie.
To access Lewis Hamilton's record, however, "he will have to have talent, more luck, a lot of luck."
