Fernando Alonso, teamed with former F1 driver Pedro de la Rosa, F3000 ace Angel Burgueno and top Bulgarian karter Nikola Tsolov, has taken third place in the final round of the Dubai Kartdrome Endurance Championship.
Two drivers, each with over 30 years experience, teamed with a 17-year old reigning national sprint champion to win New Zealand’s National Endurance Championship in Wellington on Saturday.
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There are new lockdowns, border and travel restrictions, race meetings postponed, Government promoting vaccination, dissidents promoting the opposite. Regardless of where you sit in the political/ethical/medical/logical landscape, we’d like to know where you, the karter, sits regarding COVID vaccination.
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A 100-lap enduro, awarding of a Life Membership and presentation of the Norton Rogers’ Memorial all took place at Gladstone last weekend. The Noise was there – and had a drive!
Karting NSW has released its 2021 rule books. There are six publications; the overall KNSW Rules & Regulations, plus a handbook for each of five specific disciplines of the sport – Sprint, Enduro, Speedway, Retro and Vintage.
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A six-round Club Championship plus two other feature events will make up the calendar of club racing at Ipswich Kart Club in 2021.
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Lots of mixed news snippets in today’s post of anything karting… from anywhere. Club, industry, product news & info from Australia and around the world.
Sixty-seven drivers, covering all manner of racing experience, took on a 4-hour endurance race at Wollongong on Saturday. Amazingly, the top 4 teams all finished on the same lap, just seconds separating the top three.
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Age proved no barrier to winning the second annual Kartsport New Zealand Briggs Endurance Title on the weekend, the winning team including a 69-year old driver.
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This Saturday the Kartsport Wellington club hosts the second annual New Zealand Briggs National Endurance Championship meeting at Gazley Raceway. Can the 334 laps completed by last year’s winner be beaten?
The winning BAC-PKI team completed 1266 laps to win the 24-Hours Karting Italy run by CRG and their spec Centurion karts at the Adria Raceway last week.
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Last weekend SEK QLD held their round 6 event at Warwick Kart Club, culminating in a 7-hour enduro race on Sunday, taken out by the JLA Racing team. The Noise reports with photos and video.
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The enduro karts slugged it out for two days and the F100s decided their Queensland champion at the SEK Qld round at Warwick on the weekend. The Noise was there – here’s the evidence!
287 laps, 72 drivers, 36 teams and four-and-a-half hours. Cody Gillis and Ben McLellan have come out on top of a grueling TaG enduro at Todd Rd.
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After 187 very hot laps of the Ipswich circuit, Brendan Nelson and Kurtis Tennant have taken out the first ever Blue Datto Enduro for Senior Rotax.
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IKD and the Ipswich Kart Club have put out the reminder that there’s an opportunity for Junior MAX and Mini MAX drivers to fit another race in this year via the Blue Datto Enduro event.
Excitement is building for the first ever NZ Briggs & Stratton National Endurance Championship later this month.
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Weights, tyres and times have been announced for the Blue Datto enduro, which features a massive $25k prize pool.