Live Stream – KZ World Champs
The live stream of Finals Day at the KZ World Championships kicks off here Sunday night around 6:20pm AEST.
International
King Andrew’s 3rd Rock Island Crown
Andrew Bujdoso captured his third consecutive King Of The Streets shifter title at the 28th running of the Rock Island Grand Prix in Illinois, USA.
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Excitement Renewed at Blossom Event
With an enthusiastic push from the KartSport Hawkes Bay committee, the annual two-day Blossom event that runs in both directions showed strong sparks of yesteryear.
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WSK Euro Series Opener
Australian drivers once again showed they can run with the best in Europe as they contested the opening round of the WSK Euro Series at the Franciacorta Karting track in Italy on the weekend (with video)
Patrizicorse Enter World Champ
The Australian Patrizicorse team has an entry in the FIA Karting KZ World Championship at Wackersdorf, Germany, next week.
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Diverse Entry for Gearbox World Championships
Two Australians and a bunch of Kiwis are on the entry lists for the upcoming KZ World Championship event at Wackersdorf, Germany, in a week’s time.
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Bi-Directional Blossom
A special ‘run what ya brung’ Open class will round out the action at this weekend’s 54th running of the KartSport Hawkes Bay bi-directional Blossom meeting.
IAME Euro Champions Crowned
Almost 200 of the best IAME teams and drivers contested the three categories in the IAME Euro Trophy finale at the unpredictable Genk circuit to crown the 2023 Champions.
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Seb’s Italian Podium
Australian Cadet karter Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi scored a podium and William Calleja qualified P2 at the fourth round of the Italian Championship at Sarno last weekend.
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Lewis Top 10s Genk
Australian junior karter Lewis Francis finished in the top ten at the fourth round of the Belgian IAME Championship at Genk last weekend.
Hurricane Hilary Cuts Cali Prokart Round
Hurricane Hilary shut down proceedings at Adams Motorsports Park on the weekend, the three-day, two-round event turning into a two-day one-round deal.
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Changes to Briggs & Stratton Engines
We’ve seen it plenty of times with performance 2-stroke karting engines – years after they’re established in the market, upgraded parts are introduced. It seems long-time popular Briggs & Stratton engines are not immune…
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Karting Quick News
Here’s a bunch of quick news briefs around the karting industry, clubs, events, products and people…
RMC International Trophy
Australian karter Kamal Mrad contested the Rotax MAX Challenge International Trophy at the legendary Le Mans circuit last month.
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Midsummer Mashup at Simrock Raceway
The first visit for the Texas Sprint Racing Series to shiny-surfaced Simrock Raceway produced an exciting weekend for the penultimate round of the 2023 championship.
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Kiwis To Switch To MG
The sprint and superkart classes in New Zealand will switch to MG tyres for 2024-2026, Kartsport NZ confirming the MG SH Red slick will replace the current Dunlop DFH.
Entry Point to International Racing
RGMMC is now taking entries for the first event in its new global concept, ‘Champions Of The Future’, pitting drivers against each other in identical equipment in Senior, Junior and Mini categories.
Walton Vice-Champion in Academy Trophy
With the final round conducted in Italy over the weekend, Queensland teenager Max Walton has recorded Australia’s best-ever finish in the FIA Karting Academy Trophy.
Lammers, Bondarev & Marti Crowned at Cremona
The new FIA Karting European Champions for 2023 are Rene Lammers (OK), Oleksandr Bondarev (OK-J) and Hugo Marti (Academy Trophy). Finals day report plus live stream video.
Bewley Aims For The Pros
Driver PR – With his focus set on a professional career in tin-top racing, 15-year old Tom Bewley made an overnight dash from an intensive week at the Elite Motorsport Academy to compete in the NZ Schools Karting Championships in Auckland.
Aussies In Italy
Several Australians are competing in the FIA European Championship round at Cremona, Italy this weekend, and one of them has started superbly with P3 in qualifying and a heat race win!
Kiwis Contesting International Events
Two young New Zealand karters are taking on the best in the world this weekend at international karting events in Italy and the USA.
More Superkart Titles for Urban
Ryan Urban added another two Superkart championships to his CV on the weekend, claiming the NZ 250 Inter and Rotax Max Heavy titles at Manfeild. Arrow took home the Manufacturers Cup.
‘Karts for Hope’
After losing a valued and much-loved club member in August last year, a kart club in New Zealand is hosting a ‘Karts for Hope’ event to raise awareness of mental health, plus fundraise for the I Am Hope Foundation.
Karting News Briefs
There’s LOTS of current karting related news in this post, but there’s also some content that is a bit dated because it didn’t get published when it was supposed to…