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22/08/17
Mix of youth and experience in Kiwi Rotax Grand Final squad.
There is a mix of youth and experience in the seven-strong Kiwi squad set to travel to Portugal later this year for the 18th annual Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals meeting at Portimao.
The final...
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22/08/17
Drysdale, Loughran and Cullum secure Prokart Series' titles for 2017.
Dylan Drysdale, Tim Loughran and Garry Cullum were the big winners after an all-action final round of the 2017 Molecule ProKart Series at the KartSport Hamilton club's Agrisea Raceway over the...
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26/06/17
Young Christchurch karter Louis Sharp led home a South Island lock-out of the podium in the Cadet ROK class at the opening round of this year's Hampton Downs-backed Top Half Series at Te Puke on Sunday.
Making the long trip north worthwhile Sharp was joined on the round podium by James Black from Dunedin and Jaxon Harvey from Mosgiel, with the first of the North Island drivers, Tauranga's...
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06/06/17
Winners are grinners and there were no bigger smiles than those on the faces of Juniors Riley Jack and Asten Addy at the annual Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Championships kart race meeting in Palmerston on Sunday.
Local lad Jack stepped up to dominate the Junior Rotax class, winning three of the five heats - from fellow Palmerston North young gun Jackson Rooney and Hawke's Bay driver Zac Stichbury - as...
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26/05/17
The 'Polar Blast' that swept the country over the weekend meant drivers contesting the latest double header (5 & 6) round of this year's Giltrap Group New Zealand Rotax Max Challenge at Rotorua experienced some very wet and cold conditions, particularly on Saturday.
The Junior Max wasn’t dominated by any one driver this weekend. Round 5 qualifying was taken out by Auckland's Callum Hedge by 0.003 from Wellington's Ryan Wood. Wood then went on to...
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10/05/17
Kiwi karters Liam Sceats and Louis Sharp are off to Melbourne again later this year after sealing ROK class wins at the final round of the 2016/17 Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar Series in the Hawke's Bay over the weekend.
For the past three years the overall series' winners of the Vortex Mini ROK and Cadet ROK classes have earned entries to, and karts to use at, the annual City of Melbourne kart meeting in August...
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21/03/17
ProKart's KZ2 classes delivered on their promise of close, exciting racing at the second round of this year's Molecule-backed series at Te Puke over the weekend.
"One of our guys who has been away for a bit and come back said it was just like the Nationals out there," said series promotor Steve Brown. "The numbers (there were 24 entries...
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Races
22/11/16
First race for Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar Series at the Todd Energy Raceway.
Young New Plymouth karter Thomas Boniface had to work hard for his Vortex Mini ROK class win at the opening round of the 2016/17 Manawatu & TRC Toyota WPKA Goldstar Series at Todd Energy Raceway...
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11/11/16
For young Kiwi karters Breanna Morris, Joshua Parkinson, William Exton and Mason Potter their recent trip to Italy to contest the big Vortex ROK Cup International meeting at Lonato was a trip into the unknown.
Yet all four acquitted themselves well. Morris and Parkinson, from Auckland, both made the B-Finals in their classes, Morris.one of the country's rising female stars, finished 22nd in the Mini...
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24/10/16
KartSport New Zealand's annual North and South Island Sprint Kart Championships title meetings at Hastings and Christchurch over the weekend produced a fresh new crop of class winners.
Leading the charge at the Tremains North Island meeting at the KartSport Hawke's Bay's Chemz Raceway at Roys Hill near Hastings were Callum Hedge from Auckland, Connor Davison from...
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23/09/16
New Zealand karting's Stewart sisters, Ashleigh and Madeline, head a four-strong Kiwi group contesting the final round of the 2016 Australian Kart Championship at Melbourne's Todd Rd kart track this weekend.
Ashleigh, 17, ended up best of the four-strong Kiwi squad at the fourth round of the 2016 series at Ipswich in Queensland in July, with a 12th in the TaG125 class. In her first drive in a 6-speed...
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14/09/16
Reigning DD2 Masters class title holder Ryan Urban of Auckland heads an experienced Kiwi squad which will contest this year's Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals meeting in Italy next month.
The annual Grand Finals meeting pits national and regional Rotax Max Challenge class winners from around the globe against each other at a multi-day meeting held in October or November each year to...
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Races
06/09/16
Fast-rising young female karter Rianna O'Meara-Hunt proved eqaul to the annaul challenge that is the KartSport Hawke's Bay club's two-day Blossom Sprint meeting over the weekend, winning seven of the nine heats for a dominant Junior Rotax classs win.
It takes a special driver to master the twin challenges of the long-running (this year's was the 49th) spring meeting, with racing conducted round the 687 metre Chemz Raceway kart track at...
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25/08/16
Palmerston North karters Josh Hart and Dylan Drysdale claimed key class wins at the latest double-header round of the 2016 Giltrap Group New Zealand Rotax Max Challenge kart series in Wellington over the weekend.
Hart, a multi-time former Challenge class winner, and New Zealand representative, won the DD2 class Finals on both days at George Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Raceway at Kaitoke to take the...
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21/07/16
Inaugural ROK Cup New Zealand Vortex Mini ROK class winner William Exton and runner-up Jackson Rooney are set to join New Zealand champions Breanna Morris (2016) and Joshua Parkinson (2015) on a four-strong Kiwi squad at this year's ROK Cup International meeting in Italy in October.
Morris guaranteed her spot when she won the class title at this year's Giltrap Group-backed KartSport New Zealand Sprint Championships meeting in Hamilton at Easter.
Picton driver Exton,...
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19/07/16
Pukekohe ace Emerson Vincent was again the top Kiwi karter at the latest round of Australia's Rotax Pro Tour, finishing third in the Micro Max class at Bolivar in South Australia on Sunday.
Vincent, 7, qualified fifth but claimed a win and two second places in the heats and second place in the Pre-Final, before crossing the finish line third behind 2016 title rivals Sebastian Ruiz and...
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05/07/16
Stewart sisters impress at Aussie Kart Championship round, while Breanna Morris earns praise for effort in the ROK Cup Italy.
New Zealand karting's Stewart sisters, Ashleigh and Madeline from Wellington impressed in their Australian Kart Championships debut at Ipswich in Queensland over the weekend. Ashleigh, 17, ended...
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News and Previews
29/06/16
Wellington karting siblings Ashleigh and Madeline Stewart have boosted Kiwi numbers entered in the fourth round of this year's Australian Kart Championships at Ipswich in Queensland this weekend.
So far this year the teenage sisters have been contesting both the New Zealand and Australian Rotax Max Challenge series. However the opportunity for the younger of the two, Madeline, 15, to try a 6...
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28/06/16
Reigning New Zealand Vortex Mini ROK class champion Breanna Morris is off to Italy this week to contest a round of the ROK Cup Italy series at the South Garda Karting circuit near Milan over the weekend.
When the 12-year-old from Auckland's North Shore won the 2016 New Zealand Vortex Mini ROK class title at the Giltrap Group KartSport New Zealand National Sprint Championship earlier this year...
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Races
15/06/16
Simeon Woolsey, Jared MacKenzie and Garry Cullum took out their respective class titles at an all-action 2016 ProKart Series final at the KartSport Hamilton club's Winter Cup meeting over the weekend.
That, however, was only part of the story from Agrisea New Zealand Raceway. Case in point, KZ2 class victor Simeon Woolsey.
Though the 16-year-old from Auckland won his class at the first two rounds...
