Brad Jenner Joins Percat’s Kart Team!
One of Australia’s most decorated karters has joined a new team that will contest its first full Australian Kart Championship campaign next year.
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Quick News Briefs
Another massive post of Quick News from the past weeks – new products, club updates, event information & more. Karting news from around Australia and around the world!
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Changes At Oakleigh
After significant track modifications and now securing the final round of next year’s AKC, the Oakleigh Kart Racing Club in south-east Melbourne continues to log change.
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Guitars at Tamworth’s C2C
Surfboard trophies are the tradition on the Gold Coast and now the Tamworth Kart Club hopes to have established a new tradition, awarding guitar trophies to the series winners of the Coast-2-Country Series on the weekend.
South Australian Kart Championship
Southern Go Kart club hosted the 2023 South Australian Kart Championship at the re-configured Bolivar circuit on the weekend and the club’s President took out one of the titles!
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Gippsland Shakesdown
With the Golden Power Series round at the venue this weekend, the Gippsland Go Kart club enjoyed the company of extra karters on Sunday as racers ran the club’s September club day as a shakedown for GPS.
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New Owners at Melbourne Kart Centre
James and Sam Sera have sold one of the country’s leading kart retail businesses, Melbourne Kart Centre. After seven years as owners, the husband and wife team will soon hand the keys over…
Gustafsson Tops KZ Ranking
Viktor Gustafsson’s runner-up placing at the KZ World Championship has moved the Swede to the top of the FIA’s International Kart Ranking for KZ. However, overall he’s 44th, right behind Australian Mini driver William Calleja.
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Big Mover at Champs of Future
Australian junior Lewis Francis was the big mover at the Champions Of The Future round at Franciacorta, Italy, on the weekend, moving up an incredible 72 positions across the event.
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OTK Factory Tour
Take a video tour of the impressive OTK factory in Italy – the first video is the OTK Kart Group’s Engine Division and the second covers the Chassis Division.
Video: World Champs Review
Here’s the highlights package of the three shifter kart finals from Wackersdorf, starting with the hugely popular Masters race, then the KZ2 World Cup and finally the KZ World Championship.
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Cowbiz Archerville Classic
80 karters assembled at Archerville Raceway across the weekend to chase the black plates that were up for grabs in the “State Cup” Cowbiz Archerville Classic IV. Jade Stone reports.
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Portland’s Slip-N-Slide VCS Round
The Portland District Kart Club hosted the penultimate round of the DPE Kart Superstore Victorian Country Series on the weekend, but there were varying degrees of track moisture throughout the event.
Warwick’s Junior Top Guns
There was great racing all weekend at the Warwick Kart Club for the 2023 Wash-It Australia Junior Top Guns meeting. The Noise reports.
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Photo Finish at Wackersdorf
Paolo Ippolito is the new KZ World Champion and Niels Tröger won the KZ2 World Cup, but the most spectacular finish at Wackersdorf was in KZ2 Masters. Italian karting icons Davide Forè and Alessandro Manetti crossed the line side-by-side, Forè adding another title to his long list of achievements. But it was a race for victory that New Zealander Daniel Bray should have been part of…
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TaG Titles Feature at IKC
Another huge meeting was run at Ipswich a week ago, hot fields in the feature TaG Light and TaG Heavy classes, plus several Rotax categories prepping for the National Cup.
Track Test: Arrow X6.2
Like the look of the new Arrow? Leigh Cocker at Vital Karting puts the Arrow X6.2 chassis through its paces with a track test at Bolivar.
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Next Stage for Ciconte
Victorian karter Joanne Ciconte has made it through to be one of the finalists in the FIA Girls on Track Rising Stars Program that will be contested at the Ferrari Driver Academy in November.
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Live Stream – KZ World Champs
The live stream of Finals Day at the KZ World Championships kicks off here Sunday night around 6:20pm AEST.
Dirt Kart Doco Planned
An Australian-made documentary about dirt karting is planned for production later this year, to “showcase dirt karting in a slick, professional and high end manner”.
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Six Karters Off to Malaysia
Six Aussie kart racers are part of the 13-member ‘Team Australia’ heading to the inaugural Asia Pacific Motorsport Championship at Sepang International Circuit later this month.
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Nick Takes The Tony
Nick Agland put in a super drive from the rear of the field to win the Tony Agland Memorial for F100 at the Retro Karting Australia round at Orange on the weekend.
Nail-Biters at Numurkah
The 2023 Australasian Kart Titles was a cracker, 137 entries racing for a red plate across 12 classes. But who nabbed the Commentator’s Award for the weekend?
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WSK Euro Series Opener
Australian drivers once again showed they can run with the best in Europe as they contested the opening round of the WSK Euro Series at the Franciacorta Karting track in Italy on the weekend (with video)
Colombrita In the Big Chair at KNSW
Karting NSW has a new Chair, Belinda Colombrita appointed to the position at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting on the weekend.