News Related to FIA Karting
PRESS RELEASE
News and Previews
13/01/23
During the awards ceremony for the 2022 FIA season, the President of the FIA Karting Commission Akbar Ebrahim reminded us that karting is an essential step for drivers wishing to gain experience at an early age with the ambition of developing later in motor sport, as well as being a discipline in its own right that is widely practised by many drivers throughout the world.
The spirit of openness towards greater diversity that currently guides the FIA is also found in karting, in particular through the launch of the OK-N and OKN-Junior aimed at making this discipline...
Interview
05/01/23
Mirko Sguerzoni needs no introduction: founder of Intrepid, chassis manufacturer and talent scout of many drivers who have landed in Formula 1 and professional motorsport in general, he talked to us about how high-level karting should be rethought from the ground up. The starting point in a concept that generates discussions even in the topmost board rooms: budget cap and a clear distinction between titled and non-titled races. (f.m.)
What do you think is the state of health of karting today, 2023?
«Let's start in order: the health status of karting is the health status of competition, primarily. I personally think that...
Special
01/01/23
For at least 25 years karting has been missing a promotional category. The absence of the Federations was compensated for for a long time, with good results, by the mono-brand trophies. Will the FIA be able to fill such a long gap?
They finally got there. 2022 was the year in which the FIA, in a concrete way, got its hand on the “hot potato” of the promotional categories. They put an engine at the center of the...
Special
31/12/22
The most successful manufacturer in KZ returns to win a World Championship in the most blatant way, imposing itself in the two categories and against the odds. The technical partner of a historic feat is the Italian tuner Galiffa, who has taken up the challenge and worked hard to reach a peak that is difficult to beat.
Remembering just the World Championships of the new millennium, from 2007 to 2011 CRG had pocketed the deadly sequence of Jonathan Thonon, winner of no less than 4 "World Cups" (so called...
Special
30/12/22
An European Championship on just two rounds is something arguable, but at the moment it is the method by which the FIA assigns titles and two out of two rounds are not won by chance. But the Frenchman's success is also special for another reason...
A long-experienced driver (born in 1999), after several years in the shifter categories, Leuillet added his name to the golden register of the continental title by dominating the opening race in Genk...
Special
29/12/22
Karting once again in the spotlight, but not for the right reasons. The russian young drivers's gesture made many talk, but nothing good came out of the useless debate: to understand something more about these guys and how this sport needs a change of course.
With a FIA season less and less easy to make the most of in the midst of a calendar crammed with non-titled races that move teams all over Italy (and Europe, with the COTF "FIA pre-races")...
Events
11/12/22
This Saturday the CIK-FIA Karting Prize Giving for the 2022 karting titles took place in Bologna (m. boscariol - photo v. costantino).
In the beautiful Gothic setting of Palazzo Re Enzo in Bologna this time it was not just any exhibition (or a tortellini festival) that took center stage, but the most anticipated ceremonial event of...
PRESS RELEASE
Close Up
09/12/22
At its meeting on 7th December 2022 in Bologna, Italy, the FIA World Motor Sport Council took the following decisions based on the proposals of the International Karting Commission.
CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THE LAST EVENT OF THE 2023 FIA EUROPEAN KARTING CHAMPIONSHIPS - OK & OK-JUNIOR
The organiser of the event originally scheduled to take place at Castelletto di Branduzzo (ITA)...
PRESS RELEASE
Races
16/11/22
It has been talked about since the beginning of the OK-N project, and the OKN-Junior is now a reality. Full-scale tests have enabled the CIK-FIA to validate the definition of the OKN-Junior engine to extend the OKN's field of action to younger drivers as easily as possible, with a simple exhaust flange. A single engine unit can therefore power drivers in both categories of the most accessible competition offered by the CIK-FIA for national markets.
Two engines in one
A simple and economical solution has been chosen for the Junior version of the OK-N. A 26 mm flange on the exhaust differentiates the OKN-Junior from the senior OK-N. The engine...
Close Up
29/09/22
The latest test held in Cremona for the newly formed OK-N and OKJ-N showed an excellent level of performance for the two categories destined to revitalize single-gear categories at the regional and national levels.
On September 27, 2002, the OK National was officially born, divided into the two OK-N and OK-N Junior categories. Hopes are high that they can truly relaunch the single-gear classes. The test was...
PRESS RELEASE
Races
28/09/22
Taking advantage of the publicity around the Mondokart.com FIA Karting World Championship OK and OK-Junior, the CIK-FIA organised a press conference on Saturday, 17th September, in the presence of the FIA Karting Commission President Akbar Ebrahim, his Vice President John Ryan, the head of karting of the Italian Sporting Authority, ACI Sport, Raffaele Giammaria, and the FIA Karting technical delegate, Karl Janda. The subject was the development of OK-N.
The President wished to recall the framework of the introduction by the CIK-FIA of this new category. “The aim is to offer a simple, powerful and economical engine for national...
Races
18/09/22
The FIA Karting 2022 season comes to an end as Matheus Morgatto (OK) and Enzo Tarnvanichkul (OKJ) are the new World Champions!
On the Circuito Internazionale Napoli the curtain falls on the FIA Karting 2022 season, an articulated weekend, difficult to read and above all with that finale you do not expect and two new World...
Races
16/09/22
Heavy rain in the morning at Sarno and first unseen pole positions awarded for both categories. Maxime Rehm (OK) and Kian Fardin (OKJ) start from the fastest time.
The last actual act of the FIA Karting season. The Circuito Internazionale Napoli kicked off the World Championship with rather uncertain weather, perhaps unexpected in these times at Sarno. Heavy...
Special
15/09/22
The clash between teammates saw the 2020 Vice-Champion prevail by a whisker
The twenty-one year old british Turney won the virtual title of driver most voted by our followers, also on this occasion around 15K, as a possible World Champion. Even in the last direct match,...
Races
15/09/22
Sarno's will be the last act of the FIA Karting 2022 season, who will be the new "Live" World Champions?
"The Last Dance" as they say in recent times to indicate the last act of a course full of important details, exactly like the FIA Karting 2022 season. The last appointment which, as always...
Special
14/09/22
As in the case of the Contest on KZ’ possible winners, also in this case you have decreed a new internal fight of drivers racing for the same Team.
Joe Turney, who did not start karting in the infantry, won in the monobrand trophies (Iame and Rotax) before moving to top level of karting. After a few races in F4 he decided to focus definitively...
Events
14/09/22
From October 26 to 30, the Motorsport Games 2022 organized by the FIA, that is the Motorsport Olympics, now in their second year, will be held in Marseille, France. Karting is among the disciplines.
The FIA Motorsport Games 2022, organized together with SRO Motorsports Group, is a unique global competition in which drivers from across the spectrum of motorsports compete for their home nation in...
Special
12/09/22
The semifinals of our OK Sarno World Championship contest kick off today on Instagram.
For the followers of Vroom Lindblad remains the most accredited in OK at KR, while Gomez, thanks to the Italian title won in Sarno, earns a place in the sun for the prediction. Taponen, after a...
Special
08/09/22
The prediction game on "Who will be the next OK World Champion" starts today. Following the great success of the first contest on the KZ World Championship, Vroom relaunches: in collaboration with the sponsor Mondokart, there will be a prize to be drawn among the voters, an 'official' Mondokart T-Shirt!
As Gustafsson's victory at Le Mans demonstrated, getting a prediction right is not easy (and in any case among the top ten of the final there are 6 selected by Vroom) as the unknowns that a...
Races
04/09/22
Le Mans brings CRG back on the roof of world karting, two victories out of two and fasting over. Viktor Gustavsson takes the KZ crown, Arthur Carbonnel unrivalled in KZ2.
The World Championship confirms its prestige, its spectacularity, and above all its great ability to mix everything up at the last minute, especially in a KZ that seemed already written for the...
