Age proved no barrier to winning the second annual Kartsport New Zealand Briggs Endurance Title on the weekend, the winning team including a 69-year old driver.
With close to 30 years of active involvement in virtually every part of the sport, 68-year-old Robert Hutton was awarded life membership of Kartsport New Zealand on the weekend.
This Saturday the Kartsport Wellington club hosts the second annual New Zealand Briggs National Endurance Championship meeting at Gazley Raceway. Can the 334 laps completed by last year’s winner be beaten?
There were plenty of hard fought battles as the second round of the 2020 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship concluded in Newcastle today, including an incredible final in Cadet 12.
“My Father’s more of a source of inspiration than pressure” says Lorenzo Patrese, son of former Karting World Champion and F1 Grand Prix winner Ricardo.
Australia’s James Wharton started strong at the World Championship ‘shakedown’ meet last weekend, qualifying 8th and ranked 4th after the heats. Here’s the report, pics and video from Portimao.
American karters converged on the Santa Maria karting circuit to decide this year’s GrandNationals, plus the winners of the famous Duffy trophies that were awarded in the IAME and Briggs classes.
Once he landed the top job in karting, CIK President Felipe Massa moved the Karting World Championship to his home country of Brazil. Covid made that plan unworkable, so he’s shown full support by making appearances at FIA karting events in Europe.
The 2020 OK and Junior World Championships kick off at the circuit of Portimão next week. Australia’s James Wharton (Parolin/TM) will contest OK while New Zealand’s Kaden Probst (Tony Kart Vortex) will race Juniors.
The former F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan and Italian manufacturer CRG have partnered to create a Karting academy in India. As part of the deal, Karthikeyan’s NK Racing team will be the official CRG factory team for India.
The Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy stopped in Italy last weekend with the third round at Adria Karting Raceway. Here’s the report and photos from Europe.
Kiwi karters revelled in the return of National-level Sprint Championship competition at this year’s North & South Islands meetings at Hastings and Napier over the weekend.
The winning BAC-PKI team completed 1266 laps to win the 24-Hours Karting Italy run by CRG and their spec Centurion karts at the Adria Raceway last week.
With over 200 entries received across Labour Weekend’s annual North and South Island Sprint Championship meetings in Hastings and Blenheim this year, Kiwi karters have obviously missed the cut and thrust of top level title racing.
His status as a professional karting driver makes him happy, aware that many others would like to take his place. Now, Adrien Renaudin hopes to take up many more challenges at the highest level.
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