USA Rotax Champions Crowned
The 2023 Rotax MAX Challenge US Trophy Final has crowned the new champions for this season and awarded 12 drivers with tickets to the RMC Grand Finals in Bahrain later this year.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Rotax Euro Trophy Decided
The 2023 season of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy is history with the final round held at PFI in the UK recently.
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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.
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.
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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…
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.
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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.
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King Andrew’s 3rd Rock Island Crown
Andrew Bujdoso captured his third consecutive King Of The Streets shifter title at the 28th running of the Rock Island Grand Prix in Illinois, USA.
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.
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Excitement Renewed at Blossom Event
With an enthusiastic push from the KartSport Hawkes Bay committee, the annual two-day Blossom event that runs in both directions showed strong sparks of yesteryear.
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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?
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)
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Huge Speedweek Ahead
A five-day festival of karting activity will take place in Queensland later this month. “Ipswich Speedweek” will incorporate Junior sprockets, the Qld State Cup and Rotax Nationals.
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Summer Series Info Released
Karting Australia has published the regulations for its first ever Australian Summer Series, a four-round two-event championship for what appear to be 10 manufacturer supported classes for IAME, Rotax and Vortex karters. It will also have a penalty point system for driver misconduct.
Rotax Qualifier This Saturday
A busy race meeting is scheduled for Ipswich this Saturday with TaG feature classes, rounds of multiple series plus an official National Cup qualifier event for the Rotax Light, DD2 and DD2 Masters categories.
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IAME’s $30k AKC Prize List
2023 Australian Kart Championship boasted $30,000 of prizes across the X30, KA3 Senior & KA3 Junior classes. Here’s who got what.
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IAME Euro Champions Crowned
Almost 200 of the best IAME teams and drivers contested the three categories in the IAME Euro Trophy finale at the unpredictable Genk circuit to crown the 2023 Champions.
Dicker Claims AKC Title
Western Australian driver Sam Dicker has been crowned the 2023 KZ2 SP Tools Australian Kart Champion after an exhilarating Grand Final day for the Series at Port Melbourne’s Todd Road circuit.
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Sunday Showdown for AKC Honours!
After a dramatic day at Melbourne’s Todd Road Circuit, all but two SP Tools Australian Kart Championship categories are up for grabs on Grand Final day tomorrow, with four of the classes seeing top runners separated by six points or less.
Great Barrier Reef Titles
Sponsored by Jess Golding Motorsport, the 2023 Great Barrier Reef Titles provided good honest grass roots racing across two days last weekend. The Noise reports from Whitsunday Raceway.