NQ Series Unofficially Simulated
There is an unofficial NQ Kart Series taking place in 2020 – but it’s on iRacing, not the kart track.
There is an unofficial NQ Kart Series taking place in 2020 – but it’s on iRacing, not the kart track.
Bring Your Dreams – We’ve got the Challenge. An inspirational video from BRP-Rotax.
The OK and Junior World Karting Championships will not take place in Brazil this year. The plan is to now run it in Europe in November.
As many of you know, we only cover kart racing topics on KartSportNews. Not car racing, not bike racing, and typically not what ex-karters are now doing after they’ve disappeared from the sport. And we don’t normally cover sim racing either. But this is different.
The governing body of karting in New Zealand has organised an official “iKartsport” online sim racing competition for its members using the iRacing platform.
ROK Cup USA has announced an online ROK Cup Sim Challenge that will feature all 10 of its karting classes across three events and offer almost US$60,000 in cash prizes.
Nothing much happened on April Fools day this year, and a lot or people are needing a laugh in the current climate. So here’s what we did on April 1st in 2018 – invented push-back sidepods!
Speedway Karting Association of Australasia has advised its clubs that competitors’ current logbooks will carry over for next race season in 2020-21.
Karting NSW has placed all members’ race licences on hold until the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and karting resumes.
The latest karting news briefs – online racing, COVID-19, kart shop news, Yamaha sponsorship, info for the ladies, lockdown shenanigans, membership extensions, track upgrades etc.
Here’s the progressive point score after the opening two rounds for all classes in the 2020 Noisy Tour – including Noise allocated nicknames!
Karting Australia has extended the current tyre contracts for a further year (ie, use the existing tyres to the end of 2021) and has suspended the tender process for what would have been the 2021-2025 supply contract.
Darwin Karting Association has confirmed the 2020 Northern Territory Kart Championship in July has been cancelled.
What are you doing in the break from racing? How about getting those karts ready? Here’s Derek’s top maintenance tips you can do at home:
Yep, April Fools Day was essentially cancelled for 2020. But look back at WTF happened in 2009!