Could there be one – and possibly even three – Kiwis representing Australia at the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in Brazil later this year? It all depends on what happens at The Bend this weekend.
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Tuakau teenager Mitchell Sparrow is $500 better off after storming through the reverse grid Vortex Mini ROK field to claim the feature Dash-For-Cash race at the second round of this year’s Hampton Downs Top Half Series at Auckland on Sunday.
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Christchurch karter Jacob Mitchell was a worthy winner of the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy after a dominant two days competing in the Rotax Max 125cc Light class at this year’s Jason Richards GP kart race meeting in Nelson over the weekend.
Patrik Hajek (CZE) became FIA Karting World Champion KZ, Kobe Pauwels (BEL) won the FIA Karting Academy Trophy Final round and Matteo Vigano (ITA) triumphed in the FIA Karting International Super Cup KZ2.
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Problems in qualifying hampered CRG drives at the CIK-FIA World Championship “Kart Grand Prix Belgium” in Genk on the weekend, however Race of Stars winner Paolo De Conto put in a cracking drive in the KZ final.
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Aucklander Daniel Bray (GP Karts/Alu Group/TM Racing/Le Cont) is the toast of New Zealand’s KartSport fraternity this morning after finished second to Tony Kart’s Matteo Vigano in the Final at this year’s CIK-FIA International KZ2 Super Cup in Belgium on Sunday.
UPDATED – New Zealand’s Daniel Bray has finished an excellent second at the KZ2 Super Cup at Genk, Belgium, but Canberra’s Josh Fife DNFd with a broken chain. Matteo Vigano (Tony Kart) took the win while Patrik Hajek won the KZ World Championship for Kosmic.
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Fresh from winning the final round of the Australian Kart Championship, Joshua Fife has qualified a strong 13th (out of 105!) for the KZ2 World Cup at Genk this weekend.
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Billy Musgrave and Joseph Daniele won the headline divisions at the penultimate round of the California ProKart Challenge at the Monterey Bay Karters facility last weekend.
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Auckland karters Daniel Bray and Matthew Payne are at Genk in Belgium this weekend, contesting the premier event on the CIK-FIA world karting calendar for the KZ2 class, the 2018 International KZ2 Super Cup.
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The Jason Richards GP kart race meeting this weekend will be the fourth such event the KartSport Nelson club has run in memory of former club member Jason Richards, the V8 Supercar driver who died of a rare form of cancer in 2011.
Dual World Karting Champion Paolo De Conto will return to the Gold Coast next month to defend his title and contest the sixth annual running of the Race of Stars.
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(includes video) The Scott McLaughlin Grand Prix, a new Pro-Am contest at Hampton Downs later this year, is the Kiwi Supercars ace’s way of giving something back to where it all started for him – karting.
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Dylan Drysdale was again the top-performing Kiwi at the final round of this year’s SP Tools Australian Kart Championship in Melbourne over the weekend, the Patrizicorse/Ricciardo Kart driver working his way from a P7 start to cross the line in second position in the premier KZ2 class Final.
KZ2 driver Graeme Smyth completed his return to New Zealand’s kart tracks in style over the weekend with class and Open GP race wins at the 50th anniversary Blossom Festival Grand Prix meeting in Hawke’s Bay.
A six-strong squad of Kiwi karters led by now-Sydney-based former NZ champion Dylan Drysdale could well shake up their trans-Tasman counterparts at the final round of this year’s SP Tools Australian Kart Championship at Melbourne’s Todd Rd track this weekend.
Remo Racing has announced a stellar trio of drivers to represent Australia at the 2018 IAME International Final
The Australian representation at this year’s Rok International Cup will be decided this weekend in Melbourne, with every Vortex powered category in the Australian Kart Championship still up for grabs.
CRG hauled another great result at the German Championship final in Genk with victory in the KZ2 title for Fabian Federer (CRG/TM/Vega, run by Team SRP) and Emilien Denner in KZ2 Cup (Kalì-Kart/TM/Vega, run by CRG Holland).
Karters from all over New Zealand are heading to Hawke’s Bay this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary ‘Blossom’ sprint meeting – and the inclusion of some Yamaha KT100 classes has encouraged a number of former stars to return to the track.
Dunedin karter Arron Black was the big mover at the annual two-day/two-track Southern Series in Invercargill and Dunedin over the weekend.
High temperatures and bright sunshine welcomed the 135 drivers who took the challenge in four categories at the 2018 IAME X30 Euro Series final in Italy on the weekend.
Yannick de Brabander was the big beneficiary at Assen’s second round of the FIA European Superkart Championship on the weekend, winning Race 2 after defending champion and series leader Peter Elkmann blew an engine.