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Rotax Max Euro Challenge’s third Kart Prix took place at Wackersdorf in Germany on the weekend, and despite the weather forecasts and initial low temperatures, the rain didn’t make an appearance and allowed for good racing throughout the weekend.
Event preview – With 14 places to the World Finals still up for grabs, this weekend’s penultimate round at Puckapunyal will be pivotal for the 2017 Rotax Pro Tour competitors.
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Dylan Drysdale has taken the Prokart Series’ points lead in New Zealand’s premier KZ2 class after a dominant performance at the penultimate round in Auckland on the weekend.
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Jack Doohan overcame the disappointment of the previous event with a resounding victory at the final round of the CIK-FIA European Championship in Sweden, the win making him the first Aussie to grace the top step of a Euro Championship podium since Jon Targett in 1992.
The ‘big guns’ of the NZ KartSport world, the purpose-built 6-speed/125 KZ2 class karts and their talented drivers, are on their way to Auckland this week to contest the penultimate round of the 2017 Molecule ProKart Series.
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With 94 entries – the highest so far in its young history – the third Kart Prix of this year’s X30 Euro Series took place in Wackersdorf, Germany, recently.
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Dylan Drysdale was the best placed of the six Kiwis at the latest round of this year’s Australian Kart Championship series at Emerald in Northern Queensland over the weekend.
Jac Laneyrie and Sean Morley are the Junior & Senior Alan Hann Memorial Trophy winners from the Central Coast Speedway Kart Club’s most recent race meeting.
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Tony Kart Australia has welcomed Cian Fothergill to the team, the former National champ immediately back on the pace on his return to the sport in Queensland.
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Team Report: CRG drivers showed a good pace in qualifying and heats at the European Championship round for categories OK and OK-Junior, but the final result went missing at Alahärmä.
The Australian Kart Championship’s first visit to Emerald in Central Queensland has proven to be a Championship changing affair for several leading contenders. Here’s the Finals day report, photos and video
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The Australian Kart Championship’s first visit to Central Queensland got off to a phenomenal start today with qualifying and the opening heats presenting some intensely close racing.
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Early last decade, John Martin was one of Australia’s brightest young kart racers. He subsequently raced sports cars for years, including the Le Mans 24-Hour. This weekend the 33-year-old returns to the kart track, competing at the AKC round at Emerald.
Harrison Oddie is the third X30 driver to receive the call to compete in a WA KZ2 Series round. He answered some questions before this weekend’s event.
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Australian karters are regular starters at the annual SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas. SKUSA has now opened the ‘priority pre-entry’ program for this year’s event and announced the date entries open for everyone else.
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Six Kiwi karters will contest the penultimate round of this year’s Australian Kart Championship at Emerald in Northern Queensland this weekend.
Australian Supercars star Scott McLaughin has been named as a new Patron for the governing body of karting in New Zealand.
Forty-five KZ2 drivers took to the track at the fourth round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship at Adria Karting Raceway on the weekend.
As pre-event testing wrapped up at Emerald on the weekend, visiting drivers were full of praise for the newest addition to the Australian Kart Championship schedule.
Palmerston North Boys High School claimed a record-extending sixth Secondary Schools’ title at the New Zealand National Schools’ Championships in Blenheim on Saturday.
Round four of the California ProKart Challenge saw the introduction of the pushback bumper system to the X30 Senior and X30 Junior categories.
School-age karters from all over New Zealand will be in Blenheim on Saturday contesting the 15th annual KartSport New Zealand’s National Schools Championship meeting.
The Tuto Super One Series visited the spectacular and immaculate Glan-Y-Gors circuit in North Wales on the weekend with racing for the IAME Cadet, X30, TKM and Rotax classes.
Kiwi karters Daniel Bray and Dylan Drysdale are taking positives from their weekend competing in KZ2 at the third round of this year’s German Kart Championship (DKM).
CRG drivers had a strong round in the German Championship at Wackersdorf on the weekend, the Italian manufacturer now leading the KZ2, OK and OK-Junior classes of the DKM.