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.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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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.
Australian junior karter Lewis Francis finished in the top ten at the fourth round of the Belgian IAME Championship at Genk last weekend.
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Four hundred of Australia’s best young kart racers will put it all on the line to chase motorsport glory at the final round of the 2023 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship presented by Castrol in Melbourne this weekend.
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Hurricane Hilary shut down proceedings at Adams Motorsports Park on the weekend, the three-day, two-round event turning into a two-day one-round deal.
Over 200 entries for the annual Clyde Marshall Memorial on the weekend produced the biggest race meeting at Lithgow City Raceway in the past 10 years.
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Horsham hosted 146 competitors last weekend as the Wimmera Kart Racing Club ran round four of the DPE Kart Superstore Victorian Country Series.
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The Oakleigh Go Kart Racing club has changed the schedule for this weekend’s Rotax Qualifying event, which will now take place on SATURDAY.
Here’s a bunch of quick news briefs around the karting industry, clubs, events, products and people…
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Coming out of retirement, Ben Brown has taken out the A-Main of the Wenske 100 Open Invitational at Blanchetown Dirt Kart Club.
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A massive 438 entries broke the record for the largest ever City of Melbourne Titles at Todd Rd on the weekend.
Australian karter Kamal Mrad contested the Rotax MAX Challenge International Trophy at the legendary Le Mans circuit last month.
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The first visit for the Texas Sprint Racing Series to shiny-surfaced Simrock Raceway produced an exciting weekend for the penultimate round of the 2023 championship.
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Almost 100 entries competed in the seventh round of Ipswich City Dirt Kart Club’s 2023 series on Saturday, each class contesting five events across the day-night race meeting.
Dylan Mavin won the Ampol Driver Award at the third round of the 2023 Ultimate Steel Framing Queensland Superkart series at Lakeside Park Raceway recently.
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This weekend will see the most competitors ever to contest the City of Melbourne Titles assemble at Todd Rd.
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Numbers were up in Cadet 12 as were the number of races for each class at the Gippsland Go Kart Club’s July race day on Sunday.
With the final round conducted in Italy over the weekend, Queensland teenager Max Walton has recorded Australia’s best-ever finish in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.
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The new FIA Karting European Champions for 2023 are Rene Lammers (OK), Oleksandr Bondarev (OK-J) and Hugo Marti (Academy Trophy). Finals day report plus live stream video.
Several Australians are competing in the FIA European Championship round at Cremona, Italy this weekend, and one of them has started superbly with P3 in qualifying and a heat race win!