Karting News
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29/06/22
With the World Motor Sport Council in Paris, the International Federation met for its second summit in 2022, chaired by newly elected President Mohammed Ben Sulayem and the members of the WMSC. Important news for karting with the launch of the new 2023 calendar and the OK-N engine.
The 2023 FIA Karting season is starting to take shape as the 2022 season has awarded its only titles and is about to enter its final phase this year. There is already an air of change then with two...
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29/06/22
Although it’s a big country with only 26 million people, Australia has a racing heart for Motorsport. They’re competitive and play hard, and they travel a long way to go karting. It’s a lifestyle they love. Jen Wade was trackside for Vroom International Magazine and caught up with some of the familiar faces ever-present at the Rotax racing events Down Under, sharing their thoughts about the sport of karting and how it has developed over the past seasons, based on their own position in the industry (by J.Wade/Pictures RaceMax mark Wicks/KartSportNews & Media)
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Mark Wicks won the RMCGF in Egypt almost two decades ago and has been responsible for telling the news about karting and karters on the long-running web portal - www....
From Kart to F1
28/06/22
Andrea Kimi Antonelli is the dominator of the main Formula 4 championships; let's analyze his journey at this early part of the season. (M. Tremolada)
Ten victories in the last twelve races. An almost perfect scorecard, Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s, achieved in the last four rounds held in the Italian and German Formula 4 championships. The driver...
Races
27/06/22
The Franciacorta weekend puts the spotlight on the Champions Of The Future RGMMC season. Tye and Turney take home the trophies.
As mentioned in the preview of the Italian weekend, Franciacorta brought to a close what can be considered the last general test before next week's OK and OKJ European Championship. A dress...
Races
22/06/22
The Champions Of The Future by RGMMC returns to Franciacorta for the last round on the calendar and the last dress rehearsal before the European Championship.
The Italian track is ready to experience weeks of fire, not only for the great heat expected in northern Italy, but above all for the spectacle on the track starting this weekend. The Champions Of...
Races
19/06/22
The Frenchman (Birel Art/Tm) confirms Genk’s extraordinary performance and wins by authority. In KZ some protagonists failed and Ippolito (KR/Iame) is good at asserting regularity. Denner (Sodi/Tm), the favorite on the eve disappoints, Hiltbrand (Birel Art/Tm) wastes a great opportunity with a start to forget.
KZ2
Leuillet, who starts 4th, can race his Final looking calmly at how things are going and settle for third place, which would guarantee him the title in any case. Trefilov, his closest...
Races
17/06/22
The Swedish reigning World Champion keeps the pace shown in all free practice and leads the group of the Top class. The rookie Lindblad at the top in KZ2, measured by the leader Tom Leuillet and the surprising Bertuca.
KZ
The pace had already shown in the morning free practice and in the hottest moment of the day - literally, with 35 ° C - the Swedish Noah Milell confirmed himself at the top (45,798) ahead of...
Races
16/06/22
After the great spectacle of Genk, it will be Cremona's turn to close the European Championship of the classes with gearboxes, completely open to possible scenarios.
The European KZ and KZ2 Championship has arrived at its last stage, going through a process which, as usual, has been both demanding (unfortunately of only two races) and exciting. Before even...
Interview
15/06/22
Racing has played a major part in Corinna Kamper’s life since she was just 6 years old. Today, the 27-year-old Austrian ‘racer at heart’ leads a busy life travelling, manages her own boat license school and can regularly be seen on the ORF TV F1 Motorhome program during the Formula One coverage. When the opportunity came along for Corinna to race the Rotax Project E20 electric kart last season, she didn’t think twice of doing (J.Wade)
We recently caught up with Corinna in Belgium when she lined-up on the grid once more in the Project E20 at the opening round of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy in her first appearance since she...
Races
14/06/22
After a lengthy break after the first round of the 2022 season, which took place at Karting Genk in the middle of April, the first weekend of July signifies the halfway point, as Mariembourg’s Karting Des Fagnes will provide a welcome backdrop for over 120 drivers that have registered thus far.
First introduced on the calendar back in 2019, the 1,388-metre circuit will provide a stern test of fast, sweeping sections, before a technically challenging second half of the track will showcase...
Interview
14/06/22
After bidding farewell to Formula 1, the Swiss driver's career has taken that mental leap that allows one not to be blinded by the top Formula alone, looking at the entire global motorsport landscape. Sunday's fourth Le Mans victory seems to prove him right...
Sebastien Buemi is an emblematic case of top-level Motorsport in recent years: an early debut in Formula 1 thanks to a well-known supply chain brand, which just as quickly first benched him then...
Vroom Academy
09/06/22
The LO206 engine is the core of a concept of karting close to the origins of the sport, which is bringing rookies to race and bringing back on track those who had stopped, thanks to low operating costs and hard-fought and fun races. Across the U.S. and Canada, the Briggs & Stratton LO206 categories are quickly becoming the most popular in karting
Firstly, it was the lawnmower. Early motorised go karts were lawnmower engines with a chassis that sat only a few inches off the ground and they were fun as hell. This is something that many current...
Races
06/06/22
Kristianstad puts the chasers back in the game. Franciacorta decisive for one of the best seasons in recent years.
If we were to take a complete stranger to karting and try to explain to him what titled races are, it certainly wouldn't be easy, but 2022 could certainly help. From Portugal to Sweden, via Spain...
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06/06/22
We had a chance to talk about the differently-abled category with Santi De Luca, better known as "Dorso," Event Sport Manager of the KZR championship organized by Demorace. (M. Boscariol)
To better understand the category within the KZR championship, it is useful to do a little history. The project was born in 2015 when a group of youngsters with motor disabilities owned their own...
Special
06/06/22
Let's go back to the subject of karting for the differently abled, but this time we want to focus on the federal and competitive aspects. We contacted Fabio Visentin, FIA in-charge person for the karting sector for the disabled, to learn more.(M.Boscariol)
Fabio, where are we with the situation of the differently abled in karting?
Let's start first of all with a bit of history! Personal parenthesis, I have been racing karts since 2006 and at that...
Races
05/06/22
As always, the Asum Ring at Kristianstad offers great entertainment. In Junior it is Khavalkin who wins a very important final for the general classification, in Senior it is Powell who wins.
OKJ - Khavalkin is back
It is a simply beautiful European Junior Championship. This is the worthy and unique summary of the three races held so far. Three different winners and a classification that...
Races
03/06/22
Official Qualifying completed at Kristianstad, Bouzar confirms pole position in OKJ, Nakamura-Berta takes advantage and takes the lead in Senior.
The third round of the European Championship is underway, qualifying sessions as always tight between the protagonists, twists and turns lurking.
OK - Nakamura-Berta is in front
It's a...
Races
02/06/22
The crucial phase of the FIA Karting season begins, at the Asum Ring in Kristianstad the penultimate round of the OK and OKJ European Championship.
After three seasons Sweden is once again decisive for the Presa Diretta, a penultimate round before the grand finale in July at the Franciacorta circuit.
Where the weather has usually played...
Stories
01/06/22
The OK and OKJ European Championship returns to Kristianstad three years after the last time. A technical and fast track which over the years has made Lorenzo Travisanutto its landlord.
Thinking about Kristianstad means thinking about and retracing the most important stages of Lorenzo Travisanutto's career. It is not emotions or admiration for one of the best Italian karters of...
Vroom Covers
31/05/22
Preview of the Vroom International Karting Magazine June, 2022 - N.249
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COVER 249
RED LINE FRONT BRAKES
The Problem of Safety in Karting
by Pierluigi Mancini
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