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08/06/16
Class winners Chris Cox, William Exton and Louis Sharp shared top-score status at the 31st annual DVS-sponsored Sunbelt Series kart race meeting held at Blenheim and Nelson over the Queen's Birthday long weekend.
The two-day series which doubled as the opening double-header round of the Mainland Series and carried points for this year's ROK Cup New Zealand, attracted a 70-strong entry across six classes...
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30/05/16
Auckland's new international-spec KartSport track is one important step closer now that the venue - Colin Dale Park between Papatoetoe and Auckland International Airport - has been officially handed over to the six user groups by Auckland Council's Otara-Papatoetoe Local Board.
The official ceremony was conducted on Wednesday afternoon, and spokesman for the KartSport user group, Bob Cunningham, said now that the roading and car parks have been completed at the venue, the...
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04/05/16
Wins don't come much sweeter than the one young Palmerston North karter Jackson Rooney claimed at the final round of the 2015/16 Bayley's Goldstar Series in the Hawke's Bay on Sunday. By claiming a fourth Vortex Mini ROK class win in as many rounds Rooney did what no one else - Senior or Junior - could manage this season, claim a series' class title with a perfect - 240 point - score.
He did it in style too, winning three of the five heats and finishing second in the other two, despite the best efforts of reigning class South Island champion, William Exton from Picton, and New...
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21/04/16
This year's CIK-FIA European KZ & KZ2 Karting Championships kick off in France this weekend with young Kiwi karter Marcus Armstrong one of 27 of the world's top kart drivers lining up to contest the premier KZ class title.
The meeting is being held at the Circuit International D'Aunay in Normandy in northern France with Armstrong, at just 15-years-of-age, one of the youngest competitors in the 6-speed gearbox/...
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20/04/16
Young gun Simeon Woolsey battled through an all-action Final for his second KZ2 class round win in a row at the big Point 2 Point Citrus kart meeting in the Bay of Plenty on Sunday.
The 16-year-old from Auckland claimed his first KZ2 class win of the season at the opening round of this year's ProKart Series at Rotorua in February and qualified quickest then won both class...
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Races
19/04/16
Emerson Vincent from Pukekohe, was again the best Kiwi performer at the latest round of this year's Australian Rotax Pro Tour at Sydney's Eastern Creek International Kart Raceway over the weekend, finishing a close second in the Micro Max class.
The seven-year-old was the sixth quickest class qualifier and after a dnf (did not finish) in the first heat race, stormed back to finish third in the second heat, eighth in the third, seventh in...
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15/04/16
The pint-sized points leader in the Micro Max class, Emerson Vincent, 7, from Pukekohe, heads a seven-strong contingent of Kiwi karters contesting the third round of this year's Australian Rotax Pro Tour at Sydney's Eastern Creek International Kart Raceway this weekend.
Vincent won his class at the opening round of this year's Tour in Melbourne in January then finished fourth at the second round in Queensland in February to take a 259 point class lead into the...
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Races
12/04/16
Undeterred by cool, damp weather and changeable track conditions Vortex category karters Clay Osborne (Vortex Mini ROK) and Liam Sceats (Cadet ROK) raced their way to class victories at the opening round of this year's CRC Speedshow-sponsored Top Half Series at the KartSport Tokoroa club's Holsters Trade Zone Raceway at Tokoroa on Sunday.
Osborne's win came against the biggest class field at the meeting and came thanks to two heat wins, a third and two fifths. Fellow Hamiltonian Connor Davison won two of the other heats but ended...
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07/04/16
A bumper prize pool valued at over $20,000 has helped attract keen karters from all over the upper North Island to sign up for the annual CRC Speedshow-sponsored Top Half Series which starts in Tokoroa this weekend.
For over 17 years now the annual interclub series has provided karters from Whangarei in the north to Tokoroa in the south the chance to broaden their experience by racing at new tracks against...
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01/04/16
While his fellow Kiwis were in Hamilton contesting the Giltrap Group 2016 KartSport NZ National Sprint title meeting, Auckland karter Ryan Grant was at Puckapunyal in country Victoria contesting the second round of this year's multi-round Australian championship series.
The KZ2 class specialist, who drives for the Auckland-based Mad Croc team, made the trip worthwhile too, qualifying sixth and claiming a best heat finish of fifth before finishing eighth in the Final...
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01/04/16
Kiwi kart ace Marcus Armstrong gets another chance to shine this weekend as the WSK Super Master Series heads to one of Italy's most storied kart circuits - La Conca in Italy's far south-east.
The 15-year-old finished 12th in his debut at the World KF championship final at La Conca in September last year and returns this year as one of the quickest new faces in the premier KZ class.
La...
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23/03/16
Live action from the Giltrap Group 2016 KartSport New Zealand National Sprint Championship meeting in Hamilton this weekend will be only the flick of a thumb or click of a computer mouse away thanks to internet broadcasting specialist i-Film and KartSport New Zealand partners Spark NZ and Mi Sedaap.
KartSport New Zealand was one of the first local sporting bodies to grasp the potential of live streaming and this weekend all the action across nine classes will be available in high definition at...
