Karting News
News and Previews
29/03/23
This year will see a new format where on the same day two T4 Esports events will take place in two different time zones.
Event 1 will be held on April 11 and will take place at GMT 20:30 & EDT 19:30. Event 2 which is scheduled for May 9th will follow the same format. Entry is FREE for all Tillotson T4 Esports races...
Races
28/03/23
The “April” weather came early to Wackersdorf for the first edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge series over the weekend, but it didn’t stop more than 160 drivers from getting out on track. Saturday saw everything thrown at them by the weather gods, but the RMC Germany and RMC Cup Series competitors were back again Sunday – albeit minus one hour in the switch to Daylight Saving Time, to go racing in the rain. No surprise, of course, that the sunshine came out for the prize-giving!
Ten classes in all filled the two-day program at the Prokart Raceland circuit, including the always popular guest appearance of the GKC 100 category for a cool “throwback” adding to the...
Races
27/03/23
Turney (OK) and Ramaekers (OKJ), both on KR/Iame, win the first final of the Fia European Karting Championship in Valencia
Joe Turney (KR/Iame) wins the first final of the Fia Karting European Championship in Valencia, ahead of Przyrowski and Lammers. Gomez (CRG/Iame), who had dominated far and wide during the weekend,...
Races
26/03/23
This weekend in Germany, the opening round of the Rotax MAX Challenge national championship combines with the RMC Cup Series to successfully launch the 2023 season with record entries. Around 170 competitors entered for the first of four events on the German RMC series calendar at one of Europe’s favourite karting circuits, Prokart Raceland, Wackersdorf.
Together with the initial RMC Cup Series round suited more for the club-sport drivers, the GKC 100 guest class also supports a full race program of ten categories in total. With the exception of the...
Races
25/03/23
In the first round of the OK and OKJ European championship that officially opens the CIK/FIA titled season, the Brazilian of CRG confirms himself as the driver to beat in OK. In Junior, Sweden's Kaczynski (Tony Kart/Vortex) emerges.(photo Wafeproject)
The Valencia track resembles a typical F1 track, with wide corners and a couple of chicanes just to break the monotony. A particularly fast track (93 Km/h the average for the Senior) but not very...
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...
Races
21/03/23
The Whilton Mill Circuit (Northamptonshire) hosted the first major event of the 2023 British Rotax Calendar across the weekend with 211 drivers entered all hoping to be crowned the 2023 British Open Champion. (E.C.)
MicroMAX
The first final to take place was MicroMAX and it was the Number 42 Oliver Spencer (Synergy Factory Team) who started from pole position with number 88 Zac Starbuck (Privateer) starting...
Races
16/03/23
The Motorsport South Africa (MSA) South African Rotax MAX Challenge (RMC) season opener commenced at IDube Raceway, outside Camperdown, KwaZulu-Natal, on 3-4 March and saw early title contenders emerge following a weekend of fierce competition. (Raymond Cornwell)
A significant development in 2023 is the series' return to events hosted under the MSA banner. One of the primary motivating factors was the eligibility of competitors to compete in the annual...
Races
16/03/23
Vroom is able to anticipate the official Entry List of the Karting Endurance event organized by CRG to be held on the weekend of 25-26 March on the Castelletto di Branduzzo track.
There will be 38 teams competing for victory, of which 14 in the PRO category and 24 in the Silver category. As for the Nationalities represented there will be 9 (Holland, Switzerland, Czech Republic...
Stories
10/03/23
Met at a vintage karting event in the USA, in 2011, Jack Spitler, (died October 12, 2017, aged 83) recalled his trip to Europe in September 1961 as a member of the Grand Prix Kart team Club of America run by "Red" Crise, then president of the now defunct GPKCA. Then races in England, Italy and Nassau made up the 1961 World Championship for single and twin engine karts. (by Frank Weir-Photos: Jack Spitler Collection
Jack recalled how he was awarded one of the two all expenses paid GPKCA European tour team positions by winning the Hoffco Kart Prix at Tipp Raceway, a one quarter mile banked road course near Tipp...
Focus
06/03/23
Father and Son: a relationship that is often the heart of track activity, but that has changed over the past 30 years. Fathers who are less and less "mechanics" and increasingly more "managers", when they're not a pain in the neck of Racing Departments. How has the relationship between father and son on the track changed? (fm)
Urban legends tell of kids locked in the van in the dark in the midst of their dad's chassis, as a punishment when returning from a race gone bad. Older tales tell of big fights in the paddock...
Vroom Covers
01/03/23
Preview of the Vroom International Karting Magazine March/April 2023 - N.255
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COVER 255
KNOW-HOW OKN ENGINE DEVELOPMENT AND TUNING
INTERVIEW
GIANCARLO FISICHELLA...
Close Up
27/02/23
The young lady who practically stole the show at the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals 2021 in Bahrain when she blitzed the Rotax Senior MAX field, was back on track last week in a new category. Tereza Babickova showed up in Spain at the first event on the international calendar for Rotax in Europe, the RMCET Winter Cup, driving the DD2 - Direct Drive 2-speed gearbox. (jw)
Once again, the incredibly fast Czech driver was impressive! In her debut in the Rotax premier class up against some of the most experienced guys and also the young drivers moving up this year,...
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...
From Kart to F1
21/02/23
2013 was Verstappen's dream year in karting: World and European KZ Champion, European KF (now OK) Champion, and third place in the KF World Championship
To think that the former official CRG driver had won the first WSK round already in February at La Conca (in KZ2) and the 18th Winter Cup in Lonato (in KF2), just to make it clear right away who was...
Races
20/02/23
As the competition stepped up for the showdown in Spain to kick off the international Rotax season in Europe, the adrenaline was pumping as the racing got even more exciting Sunday! The champions: Jacob Ashcroft (Mini MAX), Kasper Schormans (Junior MAX), Kai Rillaerts (Senior MAX), Patriks Locmelis (DD2) and Martynas Tankevicius convincingly secured their new 2023 titles at the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy Winter Cup over the weekend.
Mini MAX – Clean sweep guarantees Ashcroft the title
Jacob Ashcroft continued his dominant performance through to the very last race. After victory in the Pre-Final, the young British driver...
Races
19/02/23
Racing got underway for the weekend at the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy Winter Cup with 22 qualifying heats filling the program Saturday, resulting in 12 different winners. Two drivers achieved a hat trick to lead at the chequered flag each race after taking pole position in their respective Rotax categories: Jacob Ashcroft (Mini MAX) and Tereza Babickova (DD2).
The fast Circuito Internacional de Karting ensures the racing is usually going to be exciting. Of course, the competitors need to remain focused and not get caught out to risk losing positions...
Races
18/02/23
Setting the stage for a competitive weekend of racing, the qualifying sessions lit the timing screens up at the RMCET Winter Cup on Friday afternoon at the Karting International Campillos circuit in Spain. With around 180 drivers on the start grid, the first of the RMC Euro Trophy events for the season officially launches the year off under the Andalusian sun.
The RMCET Winter Cup is returning to Karting Campillos for the third time since 2020 as host to the first event on the international calendar for event organiser and promoter Camp Company. It has...
Races
17/02/23
This weekend marks the third edition of the Rotax Max Challenge Euro Trophy Winter Cup in Spain, with close on 180 entries on the grid at the Circuito Karting Campillos for the much-anticipated start of the European season for Rotax international racing. (Text Jen Wade & photos ©Nina Megger)
In 2023 we will see the return of four out of five defending champions back at the impressive and challenging Andalusian track close to Malaga. In Rotax Mini MAX, Rotax world number 3 and RMC Grand...
On Track
10/02/23
Unexpected power and performance for an electric engine, the BSR 2.0 25+ kW power unit by Blue Shock Race balances high initial costs to practically zero maintenance. We have tested in Franciacorta the most performing power unit! (by C. Forni – pictures M. Segato)
Even though many of us love the sound, the aggressiveness, and the “heart” of internal combustion engines, it is evident that the future is electric. No noise pollution, in addition to...
