News Briefs


  18 March 2016

latest karting news and updates...

  • Victorian Kart Championship series points after the completion of the first round have been published. Click HERE to download the PDF that contians points for all classes. Round 2 is at Geelong on April 29, 30 and May 1st.

  • An updated version of the Karting Australia Manual was released on March 16. The association advises the updates relate mainly to a few minor clarifications, typos and changes to several rules contained within the Speedway and Endurance Chapters. Click HERE for the latest edition.

  • Entry lists have been published for the 2016 New Zealand National Sprint Kart Championships, to be held at Hamilton over Easter. The junior classes list is HERE, senior classes HERE. There are 158 entries across nine classes.

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  • The annual Karters' Clinic at Lithgow is coming up on May 8. RSVP is required by May 1st.



  • BRP-Rotax has officially announced the chassis partners for the 2016 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals. All up, 360 chassis will be shipped and setup for the event at Sarno, Italy, on October 16-22. Brands used in each class are:
    • DD2 - BirelART
    • Mini MAX - BirelART
    • Junior MAX - Praga
    • Micro MAX - Praga
    • Senior MAX - Sodi
    • DD2 Masters - Sodi

      pic - BRP Rotax

  • The second round of the WSK Super Master Series this weekend should be even more intense than the first round two weeks ago, thanks to the series' incremental scoring system. A larger number of points are up for grabs at Sarno, where 220 karters have entered the five categories, including Aussies Oscar Piastri (OK-Junior) and Marcos Flack (60 Mini), plus Kiwi Marcus Armstrong (KZ). Sunday's racing (pre-finals and finals) will be live streamed via the www.wsk.it website.


  • BirelART has appointed former F1 racer and world champion karter Georgio Pantano to head up the racing side of the company's new Mini Kart team - BirelART Junior. The new programme will officially kick off at this weekend's WSK Super Master Series round at Sarno. "The aim of the new mini-kart class factory team is to help develop young drivers, preparing them for the professional world of karting, taking them under the Birel ART wing, by immediately providing them will all the facilities available to our drivers in the higher classes" BirelART President Ronnie Sala said. He added that the project is not limited to karting, and has a goal of helping drivers progress to single-seaters via the All Road Academy, a program that's part of Nicolas Todt’s All Road Management.

  • The British Super One series has announced 'The Awning Company’ as title sponsor. The organisation offers a wide range of products including a range of awnings, bespoke free standing structures and even protective barriers for race circuits.


  • KartCom News 320 is now online. Click HERE to read the 76-page PDF of international karting news and photos.


  • press release - Young Kiwi karter Marcus Armstrong is happy to be returning to the Sarno track near Naples this weekend for the second round of this year's WSK Super Master Series. "Yes," the 15-year-old works Tony Kart team member said from Italy this morning, "Sarno's a favourite track for me. It's fast, has many overtaking opportunities and I'm looking forward to racing there in KZ as I have fond memories of the track from last year." In that case Sarno hosted the final round of the 2015 WSK Super Master Series where Armstrong made a breakthrough in his inaugural year - in the KF class - claiming a series-best second place finish in the Pre-Final and fourth in the Final to catapult from 13th to sixth in the series points standings. This year the young Kiwi has moved up to the KZ class and has proved just as quick, setting the third quickest time in his qualifying practice session to be fifth overall heading into the races at the cold and rain-lashed opening WSK Super Master Series round at Lagni in northern Italy a fortnight ago. The four-round WSK series attracts all the top professional teams in Europe and gives drivers like Armstrong and Tony Kart team leader, three-time World Champion Marco Ardigo, a chance to get their eye in for the three-round CIK-FIA European Championships and single round CIK-FIA World KZ Championship meeting later in the year. This is a busy time for the young Kiwi with the third round of the WSK series at Muro Leccese between March 31 and April 03.

 

 

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