City of Sydney Goes Off!
The sun has set on an amazing weekend at the 2024 City of Sydney Titles, 225 entries taking the opportunity to race on the rarely used full-length variation. The Noise reports.
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Barrichello Wins Rotax Winter Trophy
Former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello took the Master MAX victory at the opening round of the Rotax MAX Challenge Winter Trophy in Orlando USA last weekend, and his son Eduardo placed second in Senior MAX.
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Cadet Titles Kick Off Ipswich Season
Ipswich Kart Club will start off a huge 2024 season of racing with Round 1 of the Club Championship this Saturday 3rd February, with the running of the IKC Cadet Titles.
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Lawson Targets Kart GP
“Every time I get back in one of these things, I die.” Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson has been testing karts in anticipation of racing in the New Zealand Karting Grand Prix next month.
WSK Super Masters Rnd 1
William Calleja was the best placed Australian in Italy on the weekend, the Babyrace driver scoring his second consecutive WSK podium in the Mini class.
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Oz Podium at Asia Max Challenge
Queenslander Scott Howard has carded another podium overseas, placing second in the DD2 class at the Rotax MAX Challenge Asia Festival in a hot and humid Kuala Lumpur on the weekend.
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The Pink Plate
Eight girls earned the right to run pink plates for the rest of the year by winning their class at the Pink Plate Ladies Event at Albury Wodonga on the weekend, a meeting that also raised a lot of money for a good cause.
Junior Top Guns
With Oakleigh now on the AKC schedule, Junior Top Guns 2024 was huge, lots of locals joined by strong interstate attendance for the kids to get the new season underway. Ayrton Creagh reports.
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Funkart Global’s Twilight
The second round of the Funkart Global Summer Series was run on the shortened version of Ipswich Kart Club’s race track on Saturday night.
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Howard 2nd in Asia
Scott Howard finished second in the DD2 Masters class at the first round of the Rotax Max Challenge Asia Trophy on Sunday.
Calleja Podiums WSK Opener
William Calleja has started the 2024 season with a strong showing in Italy, taking second at the opening WSK Champions Cup on the weekend, an event that saw strong runs from all the Australian drivers.
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City of Sydney Update
With just days left to enter, organisers have revealed the scoring matrix for the Max Laybutt Teams Challenge and want to thank all the sponsors for supporting the upcoming City of Sydney Titles.
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OK-N for Mexico
Mexico has decided to include the OK-N Junior and Senior classes in its National Championship for 2024.
Aussies in Asia MAX
Current and former Presidents of the Ipswich Kart Club will contest the Rotax MAX Challenge Asia Festival later this month.
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Trio of Aussies at WSK Champions Cup
The international karting season kicks off at Lonato this weekend where several Australians will be contesting the opening round of the WSK Champions Cup.
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Dirt Dates
The 2024 race and events calendars for the Australian Independent Dirt Kart Association are now available.
AKC Entries: Provisional List
A provisional list of over 360 entries for the opening round of the 2024 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship has been published by Karting Australia.
Quick News Briefs
A mixed range of karting news and information – local, national, international… track, club, team… etc.
Entries Open for City of Sydney
Entries are now open for the 2024 City of Sydney Karting Titles. The organiser says “Don’t wait too long to enter, as some classes are expected to oversubscribe”. Entries can …
Teams Challenge Format
The base format for the $4000-to-win Teams Challenge at the Maxxis City of Sydney Titles has been released.
The TaG Enduro
With just 10 minutes to go, a broken exhaust spring forced the leading kart into the pits for an unscheduled stop, but it didn’t prevent the winning duo from taking its second TaG Enduro victory in two years.
Yamahas Added to City of Sydney
Remember the days of full fields of KT100s Yamahas screaming around the track at Eastern Creek? That might be a reality once more with confirmation a bunch of retro Yamaha classes has been added to next year’s City of Sydney Titles.
2024 IAME World Final
Four X30 categories – Mini, Junior, Senior & Master – will feature at the 2024 IAME World Final which will be held in Spain in November.
Max’s Super Final
You wouldn’t know it looking at the results, but Max Walton almost won the Junior class at the 2023 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Final.
Who’s Through? RMCGF
Max Walton has made it through to the Junior final of the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals and a ‘hybrid Aussie’ will start pole in Seniors (includes link to tonight’s stream)