Vic Open Championship
The 2024 AASA Victorian Sprint Kart Championship will take place on the 1,001m “long” variation of the Geelong circuit on October 26 and 27.
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Tyre Change for Retro Racers
Retro Karting Australia has confirmed it will change the tyre for its Clubman classes for 2025.
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Follow the Australian Dirt Kart Titles
The AIDKA Australian Dirt Kart Titles are on at Lucindale, South Australia, this weekend and all the action can be followed for FREE via the daily live streams on YouTube!
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Retro Interview: Graham Powles
An interview with the then newly-crowned 1990 Australian Kart Champion (includes memorial Service details)
AKC Newcastle Round Confirmed
Karting Australia has confirmed Newcastle will be the venue for round three of the 2025 Australian Kart Championship in the middle of June.
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Junior Advanced Driver Day
A Junior Advanced Car Control and Vehicle Dynamics course will be run at Sandown Raceway next Friday (11 October) and it’s ideally suited to kids who are already racing karts.
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230+ For IKC Round 7
Three feature categories will make up the ‘KA100 Titles’ at Ipswich this weekend where the club has another incredible entry for round 7 of its 2024 series.
Blue Plates In The Goldfields
176 entries headed to Kalgoorlie and the Eastern Goldfields Kart Club for the 2024 WA State Kart Championships.
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Monds Straight
The Gippsland Go Kart Club has officially acknowledged the huge contribution of Life Members Graeme and Jeanette Monds by renaming the main start-finish straight in their honour.
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Country Trail Runs Together at Horsham
Round 7 of the Victorian 4SS Country Trail was run in combination with the Wimmera Kart club’s race day at Horsham on Sunday.
NSW Blue Plates at Port Mac
It was The Big Wet at Port Macquairie for the KA-NSW State Championships, but things (basically, just the track surface!) did dry out somewhat for the finals.
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Seb’s WSK Clean-Sweep
Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi has hammered the opposition at the second and final round of the WSK Euro Series at Sarno on the weekend (with video)
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Gippsland’s September Races
A wet final round of heat races spiced things up at the Gippsland Go Kart Club’s September club day on Sunday.
Calleja Joins RFM
Australian international karter William Calleja has announced a switch to the crack Ricky Flynn Motorsport operation, competing with the team for the first time in Italy on the weekend.
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Sasso’s Junior Sprint
Christian Sasso has joined a long list of karting and motorsport identities who have won the Eastern Lions Kart Club’s annual Junior Sprint Classic.
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Vale Graham Powles
Two-time Australian Kart Champion Graham Powles has passed away. (EDIT – now includes statements from Glenn Powles and Karting Australia)
Double Trouble at Maryborough
Jackson Olling has taken the inaugural Champion of Champions at Maryborough Speedway, an event that featured two-part Double Trouble finals.
Gary Grabs Another Nationals
Victorian veteran Gary Pegoraro has won yet another national title, taking victory in the Superkarts Australia Nationals at The Bend in South Australia on the weekend.
Percat Pivots Chassis Brand
There are big changes happening with Nick Percat’s JND Racing team – it will relocate from Melbourne to Queensland and switch from blue FA Karts to red BirelART chassis for the 2025 season.
Twilight End To Karting Season
“How bloody good will this be!!” The Victorian karting season’s traditional end-of-year endurance race will finish under lights for the first time in the event’s history.
Tamworth Goes Back to KA
Karting Australia has confirmed the Tamworth Kart Racing Club has re-affiliated with Karting Australia (NSW) Inc. Click through for KA’s Statement
New Format Trialled at Ippy Dirt Karts
The Ipswich City Dirt Kart Club tried a new race format at Saturday’s day/nighter for round 7 of the club championship series. The Noise reports with vids and pics.
Ipswich Championship Round 6
With six rounds down and two to go, many of the classes in the Ipswich Kart Club’s 2024 Championship now have clear leaders, but a couple are still tight at the top and there’s plenty fighting for the podium placings. Here’s Russell Innes’ report from the recent Round 6.
GPS Round 5
Will Thompson and Loclan Hennock were both double-class winners at the fifth round of the Golden Power Series at the Albury Wodonga Kart Club last weekend. Ayrton Creagh reports
Karters Named for Motorsport Games
The three Australian karters to contest the FIA Motorsport Games in Spain next month have been named: Jay Kostecki, Riley Harrison, and Pip Casabene.