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Karting News Briefs

31 July 2014

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• SKUSA's much anticipated Modesto Grand Prix street race runs this weekend. The event has received huge local promotion and the streets are almost race ready as the weekend approaches. CRG driver Davide Foré has returned to the US for the event and will compete in S1 Pro Stock Moto.
  
  Above: Chicanes were pretty much always a drama on street tracks here in Australia. Hopefully this one in Modesto doesn't see too much action! (pic - SKUSA)
  
  
• The Ipswich Kart Club has organised former member Lee Holdsworth to come out Saturday night after the V8 Supercars race and present the trophies to the Rookie and Cadet class drivers. It is expected Lee will be at the track around 7:30-7:45, so parents are encouraged to keep the kids at the circuit so they can meet him.
  
  
• DRAFT Supp Regs for the 2014 Rotax Nationals at Ipswich are now online. Visit the event's page on the Rotax Australia site HERE.
  
  
• Speedcafe's Talking Tech video this week is Adam Mercer going over a Clubman and KZ2 kart:
  
  
  
• The Tony Kart chassis that James Courtney won the 1997 Formula A World Championship has been destroyed. It was one of many significant title-winning karts lost in the recent fire at the Tony Kart factory. SA karter Glenn Davidson recently completed a replica. If you missed it last Thursday, there's a build diary and photos HERE.
  
  Above: championship winning karts wrapped and stored at the Tony Kart factory before the fire
  
  
• Host clubs for the Victorian Open Championship and Victorian Closed Titles for the next two years have been decided. The Vic Closed will run at Albury Wodonga in 2015, then Warrnambool in 2016. The Vic Open is at Go Kart Club of Victoria in 2015, then Geelong in 2016.
  
  
• Videos of the finals at the KZ/KZ2/KFJ European Championship round in Sweden on the weekend:
  
  Above: KZ Final
  
  
  
  Above: KF-J Final
  
  
  Above: KZ2 Final
  
  
• Trackside Services this weekend (a service for KartSportNews sponsors):
  • Fozzie's Master Karting, Aaron Rintoul's Kerbrider and James Sera Karting Centre will all be at the Gippsland Kart Club from Friday through to Sunday for the C & D Grade Titles
  • William Yarwood's Project X Racing will be at Ipswich from Friday afternoon for the club's Rookie Cadet Title meeting. Project X will then be Warwick the following weekend (from Friday) for the Queensland Junior Top Guns meeting.
    
    Above: ProjectX Rotax carbies being prepped (pic - ProjectX/Facebook)
    
    
• Onboard footage from the CRC Speedshow in NZ the other weekend. Features Fabian Coulthard mixing it with the karters on a very tight temporary circcuit:
  
  
  
• Also in NZ, Arrow driver Ryan Wood drove his Arrow X3 Junior Kart to victory in the Mini Rok class at the NZ National Schools Championships recently. Being the first New Zealander to win the Mini Rok Trophy, Ryan will now represent New Zealand at the annual Rok Cup in Italy later this year. He will now get ready for the trip to Europe and has secured the services of Dan Connor (Right Karts) who will make the trip as part of the team.
  
  Above: Ryan Wood winning the Rok Trophy in NZ recently (pic by Graham Hughes)
  
  
• With just one CIK Stars of Karting round to go in September, Energy Corse Australia leads CRG Racing Team Australia and Scuderia PCR Australia in the battle for the Karting Australia Manufacturers' Championship:
  
  
  
• Karting received plenty of press when V8 Supercars drivers rocked up at the Ipswich kart track for a Coates Hire Ipswich 400 promotion on Tuesday. Lee Holdsworth and Scott Pye jumped back into karts as part of V8 Supercars donating $5000 to the Ipswich Kart Club’s Mayoral Karts Program (an initiative to give school-aged children the chance to get behind the wheel of a kart and learn vital driving skills before obtaining a road licence). "It’s awesome to come back to where it all began for me” said Holdsworth. “The Ipswich Kart Club was my home track, so it’s been good fun to get back into a kart and go against the next generation of karters.” More on V8Supercars.
  
  Above: James Courtney, Scott Pye and Tim Slade with Oscar Targett
  
  
• Video of all seven Finals from the 2014 US Rotax Nationals are now available to view online. Visit the Kart Racing Network page HERE for full coverage (includes several on-board shots from 'camera cars' as one of the commentators calls them!).
  
  
• Queensland Junior Top Guns next week at Warwick:
  

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