Gippsland’s February Races
The Gippsland Go Kart Club opened the 2021 race season with a club day race meeting at the Tramway Park Raceway in Morwell on Sunday Feb 28. Here’s the wrap, results and some photos.
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RKA Kick Off in Canberra
Retro Karting Australia kicked off the 2021 season with its opening round in Canberra, former Australian Championship contenders Josh Hunt and Daniel Richert winning the respective Light and Heavy divisions of Formula 100.
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Preview: TaG Titles, IKC Round 2
TaG Light and TaG Heavy are the feature classes for this Saturday’s TaG Titles and Graham Acreman Memorial meeting, which is the second round of the Ipswich Kart Club’s 2021 Championship and Qld KZ2 / KA2 series.
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Round 1, the Project-X Noisy Tour
Despite some initial concerns, the 2021 Project-X Noisy Tour kicked off at Coffs Harbour on the weekend. Here’s the race wrap and videos from The Noise.
Race Day at Albury-Wodonga
Time Attacks, reverse direction and driving on the old layout were all features of a unique club race day to start the 2021 season at Albury-Wodonga Kart Club on the weekend.
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COVID Capers at NZ Mainland Double-Header
Changes to COVID restrictions midway through a two-day double-header across two venues didn’t stop the Kiwis from getting the racing done.
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Race Program, AKC Round 2
The official race program for the second round of the Australian Kart Championship, including full entry list and race schedule, is now online.
The Oakey Beef Dalby Day-Nighter
A day-nighter made up round 1 of the Dalby Kart Club championship a couple of weeks ago, and thankfully the meeting was in the books and avoided the storms!
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Golden Power Series Opens With A Bang
Never before has Rochester Kart Club been inundated with as many entries as they were last weekend for the opening round of the 2021 Golden Power Series. Bailey Dixon reports from a massive weekend of racing.
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WSK Champions Cup
The opening meeting of the international karting season, the WSK Champions Cup in Adria, has been highly successful with 337 drivers from 51 countries challenging each other across four categories.
Melbourne Confirmed for AKC Round 2
Karting Australia has confirmed the second round of the 2021 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship presented by Castrol EDGE will be contested as planned at Todd Rd in Melbourne on March 12-14.
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Loeskow Starts Title Defence With A Win
Troy Loeskow’s defence of the Australian KZ2 Championship kicked off with a win at Ipswich last night, while there were plenty of new winners in the other classes. Here’s the official race report from round 1. (UPDATE: link to Championship points added)
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Results: Australian Kart Championship, Round 1
AKC round 1 results from Ipswich, plus link to photos. More to follow…
Aussies Qualify Well at WSK Champions Cup
Australians James Wharton and Griffin Peebles have both qualified strongly at WSK Promotions’ first event for the year, round 1 of the Champions Cup at Adria Raceway.
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KNSW To Sanction Rotax Pro Tour!
The 2021 Australian Rotax Pro Tour will be run exclusively at events sanctioned by Karting NSW and there will be NINE Grand Final tickets up for grabs.
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AKC Kicks Off In Ipswich
National level sprint karting returned to competition today at the opening round of the 2021 SP Tools Australian Kart Championship in Ipswich, Queensland.
Preview: AKC Round 1 at Ipswich
Despite Victorians unable to access Queensland, the opening round of the 2021 Australian Kart Championship will still boast over 260 entries at Ipswich this Friday and Saturday.
330+ At Ipswich Opener
Boosted by extra karters treating the event as an AKC Shakedown, the opening round of the Ipswich Kart Club’s 2021 championship (and round 1 of Qld KZ2/KA2 series) was massive with a record setting 334 entries.
Colossal Country Series Opener at Cobden
The 2021 DPE Kart Superstore Victorian Country Series kicked off with a huge meeting at Cobden last weekend. Click through for the official race report, results, photos and videos.
Race Program, AKC Round 1
The official race program for the opening round of the 2021 Australian Kart Championship has been published. Includes the timetable for both days, list of entrants in each class plus other information.
Multiple Organisations Team Up for USA Kart GP
Unlikely to see something like this happen in Australia for a while… A group of sanctioning bodies in North America will work together to promote and run a “United States Karting Grand Prix” later this year.
Massive Entry for Ipswich Race Day
A massive 343 entries have been received for Round 1 of the Ipswich Kart Club Championship this Saturday, an event that is also the opening round of the KZ2/KA2 Qld Series and shakedown for the AKC opener next week.
Club Season Opens at Albury-Wodonga
Albury-Wodonga Kart Club members united to kick-start the 2021 club championship in style on Sunday. Bailey Dixon reports via a remote Karticle.
Lawson Licks ‘Em at City of Sails
He came, he saw, he conquered – on his return to the sport, New Zealand racing driver Liam Lawson won two classes at Auckland’s City of Sails Two-Day Challenge.
50-Lap Handicap Features at Lithgow Opener
A capacity field of karts contested the 50 Lap Classic feature race at Combined Kart Club’s opening round of its 2021 Championship at Lithgow.