Charles Leclerc Tests With Lennox
Charles Leclerc participated in a test with the Lennox Racing Team at Lonato during the week, the F1 star mixing it with the team’s regular drivers aboard Birel ART manufactured CL Karts.
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New Date & Venue for Rotax Grand Finals
BRP-Rotax has moved the 2020 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals into next year, and the event will now be held in Europe instead of Bahrain.
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Coffs Harbour ‘Out of Iso’ Race Report
The Noise reports from Coffs Harbour’s ‘Out of Iso’ race meeting last Sunday, with race wrap, videos and lots of photos!
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Race Report – Lismore: Out of Isolation!
The Lismore Kart Club held its first ‘Out of Iso’ race meeting last Sunday, and Kev ‘The Noise’ Davies was there doing his thing! Race wrap, photos, videos and results.
Laydown Lego Kart
What have you been doing in iso? American karter Lamar Hilliard built a replica of his Yamaha KT100S powered laydown kart – in Lego!
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Champions Declared in Challenge of the Americas
The 2020 Challenge of the Americas series has been declared despite a shortened season and loss of the fifth and sixth rounds due to COVID-19.
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Review: Products for 2020
In this video, Derek at Power Republic reviews a number of new karting products for 2020.
Brazil Deferred for World Championship
The OK and Junior World Karting Championships will not take place in Brazil this year. The plan is to now run it in Europe in November.
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How-To: Service the IAME X30 Gearbox
Power Republic’s Easter video shows how to service the gear box on the popular IAME X30 engine.
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Video: 2019 AKC Highlights
Relive the action from the 2019 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship with this special highlights clip of the season.
SKAA Extend Logbook Life
Speedway Karting Association of Australasia has advised its clubs that competitors’ current logbooks will carry over for next race season in 2020-21.
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Noisy Points
Here’s the progressive point score after the opening two rounds for all classes in the 2020 Noisy Tour – including Noise allocated nicknames!
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NT Titles Cancelled
Darwin Karting Association has confirmed the 2020 Northern Territory Kart Championship in July has been cancelled.
DD2 Project: Final Assembly
Here’s the final step in Power Republic’s Rotax DD2 build and fit-out: the final assembly ready for the race track!
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First Meeting On Extended Circuit Mark Webber
Canberra Kart Club celebrated the opening of its extended circuit a week ago with an entry restriction and social distancing requirements. News is, the track’s good! Here’s a wrap and results from round 1 that also featured the NSW KZ2 Series.
Dalby’s “Corona Titles”
Dalby Kart Club ran the second round of its 2020 club series on Saturday. The event was dubbed ‘The Corona Titles’, but as Kev Davies points out in his race wrap video, this was done as a bit of fun and not to make light of the current situation.
IAME Series Australia Cancelled
Remo Racing has cancelled the IAME Series Australia program for 2020 due to the issues around the Coronoa virus. While the X30 feature races may be run later in the year, they will not earn points or have series prizes. Statement from Remo & Sabrina.
Stony Creek Races – March
In what was possibly the last kart race meeting in Victoria for some time, the Stony Creek Kart Club held its March club race day on Saturday, March 21.
AIDKA Cancels ALL Events
Due to today’s Government announcement of further restrictions to mass gatherings, all AIDKA events have been cancelled effective immediately.
Noisy Tour Round 2 – Bundaberg
110 drivers from all over Queensland, including two locally born Australian champions, contested the second round of the 2020 Noisy Tour at Bundaberg last weekend. Here’s Kev’s event wrap and all the race videos.
How-To: Rig Up The DD2 Gear Selector
This week, Derek shows how to set up the gear selector on a Rotax DD2 go kart, from fitting the paddles to installing the cables and adjusting the shift-cut.
Vic Metro Series Round 1
The opening round of the Victorian Metro Series, The Kingston Cup, was run at Oakleigh last weekend.
ROK Cup NZ Kicks Off at Gold Star Round
Jamie van den Berk and Zach Tucker got their 2020 ROK Cup NZ series campaigns off to the best possible start at the opening round of this year’s series in Wellington on Sunday. Report, photos & results…
Fitting the Radiator to a DD2
HOW-TO: The next stage in Power Republic’s build-up of a new Rotax DD2 racer is installing the radiator.
Lots of Newcomers at Frogs Hollow
Several drivers new to karting took part in the Sapphire Coast Kart Club’s opening race meeting of the year at Frogs Hollow recently.