Dirt Kart Doco Planned
An Australian-made documentary about dirt karting is planned for production later this year, to “showcase dirt karting in a slick, professional and high end manner”.
Six Karters Off to Malaysia
Six Aussie kart racers are part of the 13-member ‘Team Australia’ heading to the inaugural Asia Pacific Motorsport Championship at Sepang International Circuit later this month.
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RKC Axle Spacers
Ringwood Kart Centre has launched another of its own products, wheel spacer sets to suit 50mm axles.
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King Andrew’s 3rd Rock Island Crown
Andrew Bujdoso captured his third consecutive King Of The Streets shifter title at the 28th running of the Rock Island Grand Prix in Illinois, USA.
Nick Takes The Tony
Nick Agland put in a super drive from the rear of the field to win the Tony Agland Memorial for F100 at the Retro Karting Australia round at Orange on the weekend.
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Excitement Renewed at Blossom Event
With an enthusiastic push from the KartSport Hawkes Bay committee, the annual two-day Blossom event that runs in both directions showed strong sparks of yesteryear.
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Basso Bonanza at Goulburn Valley
Driver PR – Mathew Basso continued his strong 2023 karting season with another victory, this time dominating the Junior Heavy class to win the red plate at Numurkah’s Australasian Titles event.
Nail-Biters at Numurkah
The 2023 Australasian Kart Titles was a cracker, 137 entries racing for a red plate across 12 classes. But who nabbed the Commentator’s Award for the weekend?
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WSK Euro Series Opener
Australian drivers once again showed they can run with the best in Europe as they contested the opening round of the WSK Euro Series at the Franciacorta Karting track in Italy on the weekend (with video)
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Huge Speedweek Ahead
A five-day festival of karting activity will take place in Queensland later this month. “Ipswich Speedweek” will incorporate Junior sprockets, the Qld State Cup and Rotax Nationals.
Front-end Chassis Tuner
Torsion bars are the axle tuners for the front end of the kart and are easy and simple to adjust. This nylon bar is the softest in the DPE/Kartech range.
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Colombrita In the Big Chair at KNSW
Karting NSW has a new Chair, Belinda Colombrita appointed to the position at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting on the weekend.
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Joanne & Jure Off To Training Camp
Two young aspiring Australian drivers will get their chance to make a big step in their international motorsport journeys this week, as they participate in the 2023 FIA Girls on Track Rising Stars Program.
Patrizicorse Enter World Champ
The Australian Patrizicorse team has an entry in the FIA Karting KZ World Championship at Wackersdorf, Germany, next week.
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Perfect Round Snags Championship Podium
Driver PR – Needing a perfect weekend to claim third in the championship, that’s exactly what Archie Bristow delivered at the final round of the Australian Kart Championship, dominating the Cadet 12 class across the meeting.
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Summer Series Info Released
Karting Australia has published the regulations for its first ever Australian Summer Series, a four-round two-event championship for what appear to be 10 manufacturer supported classes for IAME, Rotax and Vortex karters. It will also have a penalty point system for driver misconduct.
Diverse Entry for Gearbox World Championships
Two Australians and a bunch of Kiwis are on the entry lists for the upcoming KZ World Championship event at Wackersdorf, Germany, in a week’s time.
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Rotax Qualifier This Saturday
A busy race meeting is scheduled for Ipswich this Saturday with TaG feature classes, rounds of multiple series plus an official National Cup qualifier event for the Rotax Light, DD2 and DD2 Masters categories.
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IAME’s $30k AKC Prize List
2023 Australian Kart Championship boasted $30,000 of prizes across the X30, KA3 Senior & KA3 Junior classes. Here’s who got what.
Bi-Directional Blossom
A special ‘run what ya brung’ Open class will round out the action at this weekend’s 54th running of the KartSport Hawkes Bay bi-directional Blossom meeting.
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IAME Euro Champions Crowned
Almost 200 of the best IAME teams and drivers contested the three categories in the IAME Euro Trophy finale at the unpredictable Genk circuit to crown the 2023 Champions.
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Seb’s Italian Podium
Australian Cadet karter Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi scored a podium and William Calleja qualified P2 at the fourth round of the Italian Championship at Sarno last weekend.
Ups & Downs for Pocket Rockets
Driver PR – Pocket Rocket Brothers Oscar and Koda Singh experienced everything from DNFs to podiums at the final round of the Australian Kart Championship last weekend.
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Champions Crowned at AKC Gala
The 2023 Australian Kart Champions were crowned and a bunch of other awards presented in front of more than 450 guests at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Sunday night.
Dicker Claims AKC Title
Western Australian driver Sam Dicker has been crowned the 2023 KZ2 SP Tools Australian Kart Champion after an exhilarating Grand Final day for the Series at Port Melbourne’s Todd Road circuit.