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Team PR: Leclerc by Lennox Racing at Euro Opener

Wednesday 5th August, 2020Wednesday 5th August, 2020 by Media Release

“There is a little bitterness on our part because given our potential we expected to achieve more success this weekend” said team manager Jordon Lennox-Lamb. Here’s the team PR from Zuera.

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Covid Calendar – KA National Calendar Update

Tuesday 4th August, 2020Tuesday 4th August, 2020 by Media Release

Karting Australia has confirmed the dates and venues for several State Championship events plus tentative AKC and Pro Tour dates.

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Karting Closed in Victoria

Tuesday 4th August, 2020Tuesday 4th August, 2020 by ksn_admin

Karting in Victoria has once again been shut down due to Covid-19, the state body pulling all race and practice permits due to Government regulation.

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Photos: Zuera European Championship Round OK/OK-J

Tuesday 4th August, 2020 by ksn_admin

Here are the official images from the European Championship round at Zuera on the weekend. Race report, results and videos were posted yesterday HERE.

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Euro Update: James Wharton

Tuesday 4th August, 2020Tuesday 4th August, 2020 by ksn_admin

At just 14 years of age, James Wharton is competing in his first season of racing the OK category in Europe. Covid-19 shut down his race program for several months, but he’s now back competing at the top level in WSK and FIA karting. Kartcom.com recently posted a summary of his season so far, and a bit of history of where he’s come from.

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KNSW Release Mission, Vision & Values

Tuesday 4th August, 2020Tuesday 4th August, 2020 by ksn_admin

In an update on Friday, the Board of Karting NSW published its Mission, Vision and Values statement.

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European Championship Rnd 1 – Zuera

Monday 3rd August, 2020Monday 3rd August, 2020 by ksn_admin

After all the delays due to COVID, the 2020 European Championship for OK and OK Junior finally got underway in Spain on the weekend, Kimi Antonelli (OK) and Tuukka Taponen (Junior) winning for Kart Republic and Tony Kart respectively. Unfortunately, Australia’s James Wharton got caught up in spectacular crashes and didn’t make the final.

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Video: Tyre Life & Care

Sunday 2nd August, 2020Sunday 2nd August, 2020 by ksn_admin

In this week’s video, Derek talks about go kart tyre life and how to get the most out of your tyres.

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Karting Victoria Cancels All Open Meetings for 2020

Friday 31st July, 2020Friday 31st July, 2020 by ksn_admin

Karting Victoria has cancelled all ‘open’ race meetings for the rest of the year. This means there will be no Country Series or Golden Power Series for 2020.

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Bradshaw Untouchable at IAME Euro Series Opener

Friday 31st July, 2020Friday 31st July, 2020 by Media Release

The first race of the 2020 IAME Euro Series was run at Essay, France, last weekend where Callum Bradshaw was untouchable in Senior, Santiago Vallve snatched the Junior win and Cathal Clark was awarded the victory post-race in the Mini class. Includes the full stream from both days.

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Young Karter Proves Old Adage Correct

Friday 31st July, 2020Friday 31st July, 2020 by Media Release

Ambitious young Auckland driver Zane Hills proved the age-old adage ‘practise makes perfect’ true at the opening round of KartSport New Zealand’s new GT3 class simulator racing series on Tuesday evening.

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TaG Restricted Titles at Ipswich This Saturday

Wednesday 29th July, 2020Wednesday 29th July, 2020 by Media Release

Entries have already exceed 270 for this Saturday’s Ipswich race meeting which will have a ‘TaG Restricted Titles’ feature class, plus several current or former Supercars drivers in KZ2 and TaG Light/Heavy.

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Orders Close Monday for Young Guns T-Shirts

Wednesday 29th July, 2020Wednesday 29th July, 2020 by Media Release

Lismore Kart Club will be running its annual Young Guns Titles on August 22 and 23 and there will be a FREE practice day on the 21st.

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Enduros & F100s at Warwick

Tuesday 28th July, 2020Tuesday 28th July, 2020 by ksn_admin

The enduro karts slugged it out for two days and the F100s decided their Queensland champion at the SEK Qld round at Warwick on the weekend. The Noise was there – here’s the evidence!

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Ballarat Runs July Race Day

Monday 27th July, 2020Monday 27th July, 2020 by Media Release

Melbourne may be locked down, but Ballarat’s not, the club running a successful race day on Sunday for almost 40 eager entries. Here’s the race report and lots of pics!

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Video: Fitting Dynamic Steering

Sunday 26th July, 2020Sunday 26th July, 2020 by ksn_admin

Derek at Power Republic got his hands on a DKS kit, fitted it to a Tony Kart chassis and used a Sniper system to measure the toe difference in the up and down positions.

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DAS For Karts!

Friday 24th July, 2020Friday 24th July, 2020 by ksn_admin

The Mercedes Formula One team is running a Dual Axis Steering (DAS) system on its race cars this year. And now there’s a similar system for karts!

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The Kings & Queens of Dalby

Wednesday 22nd July, 2020Wednesday 22nd July, 2020 by ksn_admin

The Dalby Kart Club hosted its Kings & Queens Titles event on the weekend, and Kev ‘The Noise’ Davies was there to record the action: report, pics and videos.

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