There was plenty of promise without ultimate reward for the six-strong group of kiwi karters who ventured across the Tasman for the fourth round of the SP Tool Australian Karting Championships in Queensland.
Titles were spread around the South Island when the New Zealand National Schools Championship honours were decided across four classes at KartSport Southland on the weekend.
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The opening round of the WSK Euro series has kicked off at South Garda Karting (Lonato, Italy) and there’s a bunch of Australians and a Kiwi contesting the event (includes link for live stream).
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Here’s the post-produced video summary of the final round of the 2022 European OK & OK-Junior Championship at Franciacorta, Italy, last week. There’s plenty of action (especially in OK-Junior) and big celebrations for the Tony Kart, Parolin and Kart Republic teams.
OK-N engines from TM, Vortex, IAME and Modena hit the track for an official ‘demo run’ at the final round of the European OK/OK-J Championship last week.
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Sean Butcher has taken a double victory at the Mariembourg round of the Rotax MAX Euro Trophy to extend his championship lead in the Senior MAX class. Racing under the UAE banner, fellow Australian Lachlan Robinson headed the Senior rankings after the heat racing, but ran into trouble in the first final.
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Young Kiwi karters will travel far and wide in two key competitions on both sides of the Tasman this weekend – the NZ Schools’ Championship and the Australian Kart Championship.
Vortex, IAME, TM and Modena are all on board with the CIK-FIA’s new OK-N “National” class. In fact, their engines were on track in Italy on the weekend.
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Kart Republic’s Kean Nakamura-Berta and Parolin’s Anatholy Khavalkin have won the 2022 European Championship for the OK and OK-Junior classes respectively, but it was not a great event for the Australians.
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Three Australians are contesting the fourth and final round of the European Championships for OK and OK-Junior at Franciacorta, Italy, this weekend, and one of them has a shot at making tonight’s Final.
The halfway point of the season pulled 181 entries to the half-mile circuit at Denton for the ‘Summer Shootout’ round of the Texas Kart Racing Series.
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Hot weather greeted the nearly 90 karters for the double-round of the California ProKart Challenge series last month, four drivers walking away with double wins.
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The FIA World Motorsport Council has confirmed the introduction of a new engine and class to karting, aimed at National level racing: OK-N (note: image above is NOT an OK-N engine)
The FIA World Motor Sport Council has made several decisions concerning karting, including the introduction of a new OK-N engine, a new standard for protective clothing, plus the 2023 international karting calendar
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The Italian crewed Pomposa Dream Team won the 24 Hours Karting of Italy at the 7 Laghi circuit on the weekend. Czech Republic team Steel Ring Trinec took out the Silver division of the race.
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As a result of winning their classes at the NZ Nationals meeting on the weekend, another three Kiwis drivers have qualified to compete at the ROK Superfinals in Italy.
William Calleja poled and podiumed the Italian Championship round at Ugento on the weekend while at the other end of the country a bunch of Australians were having a tough time in the heat at Franciacorta.
The breadth of participation and talent of karting in New Zealand has again been exemplified after the first stage of the 2022 Gazley National Sprint Championships in Wellington at the weekend.
After disruption due to covid, the National Championships return in New Zealand this weekend with the first part of a ‘split’ nationals format at Wellington (includes live stream link)
Two rounds were put in the books last weekend for the Route 66 Series at Mill-Mite Raceway, and several drivers scored a double across the two days.
A trio of karters won Toyota 86 test drives after battling tricky wet winter conditions at the Prokart Series final at Rotorua.
Oscar Target achieved his best result in Europe to date, carding a strong top ten finish in the KZ2 final at Cremona, Italy, overnight.
Tom Leuillet and Paolo Ippolito have won the European KZ2 and KZ Championships after the round at Cremona on the weekend (includes the live steam from both days)
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The six-stop NZ Mainland Series kicked off a week ago with the Sunbelts Sprint Championship – a two day event across two circuits.