With the outstanding success of Oliver Gray, the Leclerc By Lennox Racing Team finally achieves the result for which it has worked extremely hard for all of this first part of the season, including the lockdown months.
The Route 66 Sprint Series opened its 2020 season at the historic Road America facility at Elkhart Lake across the Independence Day weekend. Almost 100 entries fronted each day in 2 and 4-stroke categories.
Now that the outlook for international kart racing is becoming clearer, Executive Secretary of the CIK-FIA, Kay Oberheide, talks about the last few months and what the season ahead looks like.
Aucklanders Taylor Cockerton and Zane Hills shared the glory at the first of three Tasman Karts-backed KartSport New Zealand Virtual Club Days, but it was Supercars ace Shane Van Gisbergen who starred early, before crashing.
COVID-19 has created chaos around the world, but somehow some
are defying the odds. For example, AKRA experienced a 67% increase in race entries last Sunday, June 28, when racing returned to the Wollongong circuit.
Always loyal to the British team RFM, 15-year-old Dutchman Thomas ten Brinke was planning to compete in OK for a full season. The coronavirus decided otherwise.
Karting Australia has announced further postponements for the Australian Kart Championship and Rotax Pro Tour, and is now aiming to run a minimum of three rounds of each in the final four months of the year.
Karting NSW has appointed two new Directors to its Board; Ben Aylen as Director of Administration and Shane Glanville as Director of Financial Services.
Third-generation Queensland karter Alice Buckley has been chosen by the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission as Australia’s representative in the FIA Girls on Track – Rising Stars program.
A former World and European Champion, Alessandro Manetti now runs Manetti Motorsport. He talks to the FIA about the challenges of running a private team and the big problems facing karting in Italy at the moment.
Teenage Auckland karter Zach Blincoe can now add ‘Sim specialist’ to his racing CV after winning both races at the final ‘double-header’ round of KartSport New Zealand’s iKartSport Racing ‘Virtual Club Day’ at two very different circuits during the week.
LeCont is the tyre supplier for a number of this years FIA Karting Championships. The company’s Paolo Bombara tells us of the factory closure and how things are shaping up for later in the year.
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