News about FIA Karting Races
Races
18/05/23
The FIA European Championship restarts from the Czech Republic, where, as usual, the preparatory races of the Champions of the Future series took place two weeks ago.
In OK, standings leader Gomez will have to look primarily at Joe Turney, one of the drivers in the best shape of this first part of the season. The Briton of Kart Republic, who commutes driving (and...
Races
22/03/23
The European OK Championship finally gets underway at the Kartódromo Internacional Lucas Guerrero in Valencia. A "new" circuit for everyone, very modern and suitable for categories without the gearbox.
With fewer unknowns than one might think, given that somehow teams and drivers have been on track since January, the official FIA season gets underway on Sunday 26th.
The first round of the OK and...
Close Up
24/02/23
The FIA International Karting Ranking has started, as preannounced in late 2022. The world ranking that ranks drivers based on their performance in competitions deemed eligible is finally taking shape
Defined in its unveiling last October as a "computerised ranking system," it will be a digital ranking that aggregates results from competitions held on different continents and deemed...
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...
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...
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...
Races
03/09/22
Saturday's long programme concluded the direct clashes for KZ and KZ2. Simo Puhakka and Arthur Carbonnel currently lead the rankings ahead of the Super Heats.
A day as demanding as it was interesting at Le Mans, which ended with the last KZ2 heat just run under the artificial lights of the Le Mans kart track. An atypical World Championship for the timing...
