There were some impressive numbers around the 52nd running of the Brazilian Karting Championship recently, 522 drivers taking 13 days (and 8,000 tyres!) to complete the 2 phases of the event.
Talented young Palmerston North karter Jackson Rooney returns to Australia’s Rotax Pro Tour at Puckapunyal this weekend as part of a seven-strong Kiwi squad.
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Rotax Max Euro Challenge’s third Kart Prix took place at Wackersdorf in Germany on the weekend, and despite the weather forecasts and initial low temperatures, the rain didn’t make an appearance and allowed for good racing throughout the weekend.
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Anyone who’s watched the coverage of the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals each year will be familiar with Jen Wade. For many, the Euro-based Australian has been the public face of the event, a key presenter of all the interesting off-track content.
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Dylan Drysdale has taken the Prokart Series’ points lead in New Zealand’s premier KZ2 class after a dominant performance at the penultimate round in Auckland on the weekend.
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Jack Doohan overcame the disappointment of the previous event with a resounding victory at the final round of the CIK-FIA European Championship in Sweden, the win making him the first Aussie to grace the top step of a Euro Championship podium since Jon Targett in 1992.
The ‘big guns’ of the NZ KartSport world, the purpose-built 6-speed/125 KZ2 class karts and their talented drivers, are on their way to Auckland this week to contest the penultimate round of the 2017 Molecule ProKart Series.
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With 94 entries – the highest so far in its young history – the third Kart Prix of this year’s X30 Euro Series took place in Wackersdorf, Germany, recently.
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Here are the official CIK-FIA images from the European Championship round at Alaharma.
Dylan Drysdale was the best placed of the six Kiwis at the latest round of this year’s Australian Kart Championship series at Emerald in Northern Queensland over the weekend.
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Team Report: CRG drivers showed a good pace in qualifying and heats at the European Championship round for categories OK and OK-Junior, but the final result went missing at Alahärmä.
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After a near perfect run in the preliminaries, Jack Doohan had to settle for fourth in the Final at the European OK-Junior Championship round in Finland overnight.
Jack Doohan has qualified fastest and won two of the opening three heats at the 4th round of the European Championships in Finland.
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This weeks mixture of news updates and information from here and abroad…
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CRG and Briggs & Stratton have jumped into bed with the aim of creating a cheap entry level karting program for the European market.
Former World Karting champion and Formula One driver Jarno Trulli believes junior karting is now at a level that is too professional.
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Australian karters are regular starters at the annual SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas. SKUSA has now opened the ‘priority pre-entry’ program for this year’s event and announced the date entries open for everyone else.
Six Kiwi karters will contest the penultimate round of this year’s Australian Kart Championship at Emerald in Northern Queensland this weekend.
Australian Supercars star Scott McLaughin has been named as a new Patron for the governing body of karting in New Zealand.
Forty-five KZ2 drivers took to the track at the fourth round of the Italian ACI Karting Championship at Adria Karting Raceway on the weekend.
Palmerston North Boys High School claimed a record-extending sixth Secondary Schools’ title at the New Zealand National Schools’ Championships in Blenheim on Saturday.
The governing body for karting in New Zealand has announced a deal with a nationwide tyre retail chain.
Round four of the California ProKart Challenge saw the introduction of the pushback bumper system to the X30 Senior and X30 Junior categories.
Former Australian Superkart Champion Jason McIntrye is waiting for a five-organ transplant. The Victorian, who had to stop racing a number of years ago, requires…