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.
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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.
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OTK Dominates Challenge Of the Americas Opener
The OTK product line was front and center throughout the Challenge of the Americas opening round at the Phoenix Kart Racing Association facility in Glendale, Arizona.
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AKC Opener Reschedule Confirmed
Karting Australia has confirmed the opening round of the 2021 Australian Kart Championship will now take place on February 19 & 20 at Ipswich. For classes that have vacancies, entries will re-open on February 1st (Monday).
Tony Kart Top Guns
Team Report: The Tony Kart Australia truck was at Oakleigh to support all the Tony Kart drivers throughout the 2 nights of Junior Top Guns, helping to achieve a nice haul of trophies for the kids to take home.
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KNSW Release 2021 Rule Book
Karting NSW has released its 2021 rule books. There are six publications; the overall KNSW Rules & Regulations, plus a handbook for each of five specific disciplines of the sport – Sprint, Enduro, Speedway, Retro and Vintage.
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News Briefs
NEWS BRIEFS! In this installment: series updates, industry news, calendar reschedules, club updates, team & driver news, farewell to an icon – sprint, speedway, endurance, superkart – local and international karting info…
Bellars Three-peats Young Guns
Wyllie’s Kart City Young Guns kicked off Launceston Kart Club’s 2021 season last Saturday evening, Elliot Bellars taking out the feature race for the third consecutive year.
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Junior Top Guns
Just on 120 entries contested the eight classes that opened the 2021 Victorian karting season with Junior Top Guns at Oakleigh the past couple of days.
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AKC Round 1 Postponed
The opening round of the 2021 Australian Kart Championship has been postponed. Here’s the statement from Karting Australia, plus the result of our reader poll on the matter.
Rotax Forging Ahead With Grand Finals
According to Rotax, the 2020 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals are still going ahead in Portugal later this month. While the event will be run “under the highest health and safety standards”, some competitors are worried they can’t even get into Portugal.
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GKC of SA Launch Cadet Program
The Go Kart Club of South Australia has launched a one-make Cadet kart program using the Karting Australia homologated Torini-powered Ricciardo 4SS kart.
Ipswich Club Calendar for 2021
A six-round Club Championship plus two other feature events will make up the calendar of club racing at Ipswich Kart Club in 2021.
4 Hours Dry, 3 Hours Wet at SEK QLD Finale
It started fine, but it ended wet – very wet! Here’s The Noise’s take (and videos) on the SEQ Qld final round at Ipswich that included singles, twins and F100s.
The ‘New’ Geelong Re-Opens New Years Day
The Geelong track will re-open on January 1st. It’s been closed while the track was extended, and now the full circuit has been re-paved, it’s ready for action.
Canberra’s 2020 Champions
Youngster Kobe McInerney has been crowned the overall champion at the Canberra Kart Racing Club for 2020. Other awards went to…
Tasmanian Kart Championship
In mixed conditions all weekend, 105 competitors slogged it out across 10 classes to fight for the 2020 Tasmanian Karting Championship on November 28-29 at the Launceston Kart Club venue.
AKRA NSW State Titles
Almost 100 karters competed in AKRA’s NSW State Titles on the weekend. Here’s the race report, photos and results from Wollongong.
Dalby Done Till ’21
It was a hot day at Dalby for the final race event of 2020. The finals got underway after a huge spit roast dinner, and The Noise was there, taking video and photos during the day and into night.
Victorian Calendar for 2021
‘Open’ race meetings will return to Victoria next month when the 2021 season kicks off with the traditional Junior Top Guns double-header at Oakleigh. Click thru for the full schedule.
News Briefs
Lots of mixed news snippets in today’s post of anything karting… from anywhere. Club, industry, product news & info from Australia and around the world.
Millsy Takes WA KZ2 Series
A win at the fifth ‘Grand Finale’ round of the WA KZ2 Series has sealed the championship for Blake Mills.
Goldstar Karters Turn It On at Taranaki
The cream definitely rose to the top at the opening round of the 2020/21 Goldstar Series at the KartSport Taranaki club’s Todd Energy Raceway in Waitara on Sunday.
Gippsland’s November Race Day
The Gippsland Go Kart Club ran it’s third and final race meeting for the year on the weekend, with social/practice karting on Saturday and racing on Sunday.
Stony Creek Club Day
Stony Creek Kart Club ran its November race day last Saturday. Here’s the results and photos.