The meeting is being held at the Circuit International D'Aunay in Normandy in northern France with Armstrong, at just 15-years-of-age, one of the youngest competitors in the 6-speed gearbox/125cc KZ category.
Heading the entry list in the KZ class is defending title-holder, Italian Flavio Camponeschi (CRG/Parilla/Vega), with last year's KZ2 class title holder Joel Johansson (Righetti-Ridolfi/TM/Vega) from Sweden also expected to feature in his move to the KZ class.
Set to provide competition is a who's who of the European karting world including Armstrong's works Tony Kart teammate, Marco Ardigo (Tony Kart/Vortex/Vega) and fellow three-time former World Karting Champion Davide Fore (Righetti Ridolfi/TM/Vega) from Italy, and 2012 KZ2 World Cup winner Jordan Lennox-Lamb (Birel/Parilla/Vega) from Great Britain.
Practice at the Essay track begins for the KZ and KZ2 classes tomorrow (Friday) with qualifying and heat races on Saturday and Pre-Finals and Finals on Sunday,
This year's CIK-FIA European titles will be contested over three rounds, the second in Spain in May and third in Belgium in July.
The Finals day will be livestreamed from http://www.cikfia.tv/live-tv.html
