IKD announced today it will no longer be the distributor for Rotax karting products in Australia. A new entity will take over the Rotax importation and distribution in January 2021.
With close to 30 years of active involvement in virtually every part of the sport, 68-year-old Robert Hutton was awarded life membership of Kartsport New Zealand on the weekend.
Once he landed the top job in karting, CIK President Felipe Massa moved the Karting World Championship to his home country of Brazil. Covid made that plan unworkable, so he’s shown full support by making appearances at FIA karting events in Europe.
The former F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan and Italian manufacturer CRG have partnered to create a Karting academy in India. As part of the deal, Karthikeyan’s NK Racing team will be the official CRG factory team for India.
FA Alonso Kart and KR SrL have announced the appointment of Tom Williamson Motorsport as its official and exclusive importer in the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Each country’s ASN can enter its greatest young hope in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy, which celebrated it’s 10th anniversary this year. Here’s a spiel and video from the FIA about it’s annual series for 12 to 14-year-olds.
Kart Republic Australia and Holden Kart Racing would like to announce they are still the only Australian importer for Kart Republic karts and their products., and welcome new drivers to be part of the Kart Republic Australia Racing Team.
Fall-out from the KZ World Championship meeting at Lonato has thrown a spanner into the works for two Kiwi karters who have already travelled to Italy to compete at the ROK Cup Superfinal.
The Italian Motorsport Federation, ACI Sport, has suspended the track licence for the South Garda Karting circuit at Lonato for the duration of the investigation into the incident at the recent KZ World Championship.
A range of karting related news snippets from here and abroad – Sera’s Protégés, FWT dates, Marcos Ambrose teaches, Crashtag app, tyre rule tweak, KA COVID latest.
Global tyre giant Bridgestone has announced it will exit the karting market and no longer supply kart tyres beyond the end of 2022. Click through for the full statement.
Andrew Westacott, the CEO of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, has been appointed to the Board of Karting Australia, and follows the recent appointment of SP Tools’ Kevin Davis.
