Queensland has become the victorious state in Karting Australia’s first official State of Origin battle held at The Bend Motorsport Park on Saturday afternoon as part of the inaugural Ultimate Club Racer event.
A fantastic day/night of karting was held at Dalby last weekend with the second round of The Noise Summer Series. Here’s the race report, photos and video of all the finals.
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It was not a great weekend for the Aussies at the WSK Open Cup round 1 at Lonato on October 24-27 (includes video of all four finals)
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Gippsland Go Kart Club’s October club day was raced at Morwell last weekend. All photos by Steve Dansie
The established stars of New Zealand karting added to their respective title tallies the country’s annual Island Sprint Championships titles meetings at Auckland and Dunedin last weekend.
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With wins against some of the world’s best young karters in their respective classes at the annual Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals meeting in Italy recently, young Kiwi karters Clay Osborne from Hamilton and Jay Urwin from Tauranga helped elevate New Zealand to fourth overall in the Nations Cup competition.
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The official finals day report and podium photos from the 2019 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Final.
The qualification heats and pre-finals are done and the majority of Team Australia has made it through to the Finals, which will be live streamed tonight (AUS time).
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A day of heat racing saw mixed results for Team Australia. So far, our youngest racers are leading the charge with Jaxson Burns, Costa Toparis and Hugh Barter all inside the top ten.
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Press Release: the official Day 4 report from the Rotax Grand finals covering qualifying and the opening heat races.
Costa Toparis and Hugh Barter are the top placed Australian qualifiers at the Rotax Grand finals, taking second and third fastest in their respective classes.
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The live stream of the Rotax Grand Finals has started! Follow the action in Italy…
The Rotax Grand Finals are on, and all the new karts and engines will have new exhausts with fresh matting. But as you start clocking up the hours on the …
Costa Toparis topped the Mini MAX time sheets on the second day of practice at the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand finals, and many of the other Aussies have been in or around the top ten of their respective sessions.
Retro Karting Australia held its Victorian Championship meeting at Geelong on the weekend and also crowned the National Champions for 2019. Sixty-seven entries contested the four classes.
The karts have hit the track, here’s the official report from Day Two – includes all the links you need to follow the Aussies during the week 🙂
Rotax Press: official Day One report from the 20th edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals at Sarno, Italy – the famous chassis lineup and driver allocation.
There were plenty of Kiwis at Race of Stars, and two of them – Matthew Payne and Mathew Kinsman – made a big impression.
Watch all the Race of Stars videos, on and off-track action from the Gold Coast, including interviews, racing, presentations and highlights clip.
Frenchman Anthony Abbasse has taken out his second consecutive Gold Coast 600 Race of Stars at the Xtreme Karting Complex for the SodiKart factory team after a remarkable series of events that saw the race decided after the chequered flag.
James Wharton was the only Australian to make the finals at the 2019 IAME International at Le Mans this past week, but there were some worthy efforts from many with several making the B finals.
Seven Australians contested the ROK Cup International Final in Italy earlier this month, and two of them – Marcos Flack and Alex Ninovic – made it through to the finals.
IAME has announced two new compounds in its range of Komet Tyres for 2020 – K2H (hard) and K2M (medium). The H is focused around the X30 classes (and will be used at next year’s IAME International Final) and the M for the OK and KZ categories.
Kiwi Matthew Payne upstaged the Europeans and Australia’s best to qualify fastest at the Race of Stars on the Gold Coast yesterday. Here’s the qualifying day report, plus link to today’s live stream.
