Karting News
Interview
24/08/23
Karting icon Alessandro Manetti, born in 1972, in addition to a couple of World titles won in Formula A and Super A and a long, victorious career in practically every category, with and without gearbox, is back on track to compete in the World Championship in Wackersdorf in the KZ Master with Team Crg. He won't go to make an appearance, told us, but to win that race (fm)
«I got back on a go kart for the first time in almost ten years, in October 2022 - Alessandro tells us, who in fact, after the 2013 season, in which he had competed with Praga Kart, quit racing...
Racing rental
23/08/23
Rental has a main difference with racing karting: driven hard, crashed often and serviced only when necessary. That’s why Praga brought its racing experience to the Rental kart center, they are essentially racing karts modified for rental purposes. Praga idea of rental business with tracks owners is to supply everything, from buying and financing the kart fleet to its maintenance and even track equipment – barriers, timing, right down to asphalt.
The new IPK RENTAL KART equipped with a 4-stroke engine manages to stop the scale’s needle under 140 kg. In the search for the maximum lightness, IPKarting technicians have certainly not...
Legendary kart
22/08/23
The Dart story began during the summer of 1958 when Herbert E Rupp II, a young 22 years old ex-Marine from Mansfield, Ohio, affectionately known by his two older sisters and everyone else as 'Mickey', became interested in karting. Incidentally it was Rupp’s sisters who came up with the 'Mickey' nickname for him.
Initially Rupp became a Go Kart dealer and purchased kits from the Californian manufacturer which he then set about welding, painting and assembling, skills that his father, an industrialist,...
Racing rental
18/08/23
The Italian company (a century-old firm that has specialized in the construction of Go Karts for over 40 years) has been pushing hard over the past year on a formula that is still not very popular in the rental sector: vehicles that are, yes, Rental in principle (sturdiness, ease of use and management for track owners) but Racing in the soul, with a two-stroke engine that pushes the karts over 105 km/h. (fm)
"We have noticed," the project manager tells us, "that those who love karting and have been trying their hand at Rental karts for some time, which are generally equipped with 4-stroke...
100cc Racing & Co
17/08/23
The Euro Grand Prix is back, and this year it’s celebrating the track’s 60th anniversary. On the last weekend in August, Europe’s 100cc Gokart elite meet at Vojens Motorsport Arena (www.vma.dk) to a blast from an international go-kart tree. An event which draws some of the biggest 100cc racers from all over Europe.
For 2023 a lot of new ideas have been added to make the Euro Grand Prix one huge party for both drivers and spectators.
VMA Track 60th Anniversary Celebration:
Everything kicks up an extra gear...
Racing rental
16/08/23
Tradition and Innovation come together every day at Birel Art, a company that has been building go-karts for 64 years to feed the very legend of the Birel Art brand, one of the most famous in the world and whose sound alone evokes one thought in everyone: the track. Birel Art's added value in the development of its Rental karts is its ability to combine the evolution of advanced technological solutions without forgetting the "craftsmanship" experience that has always distinguished the Lissone-based company. (fm)
The history of karting, available to all
All the RENTAL karts in the Birel Art range have been designed to replicate the characteristics and drive sensation of competition karts, so that anyone who...
Racing rental
14/08/23
There was a time when the word 'rental kart' brought to mind images of seaside tracks by the beach, with impromptu drivers in flip-flops and swimming costumes returning from a day at the shore. Obviously, the purely recreational dimension of kart rental just described still exists. Today, Rental Racing is experiencing major development. At the root of its success are the technical evolution of the vehicles, increasingly well-organized Series and Championships, and the arrive-and-drive formula, preferred by many to buying their own vehicle to race. But what about performance? Let's take a closer look at the only karting formula that is truly accessible to anyone, through what some of the most evolved key players in the field offer, starting from CRG. (fm)(fm)
Today, Rental Racing is experiencing major development. At the root of its success are the technical evolution of the vehicles, increasingly well-organized Series and Championships, and the arrive-...
Editorials
06/08/23
In speaking to the press about the launch of his GT3 Team, the two-time F1 World Champion (a great Sim racer) talked about karting in a different way than usual. Listening the current Top driver in the world of the moment saying things like this opens up different scenarios
«It's about creating a stepping stone from sim racing to GT3, so that you don't have to only go through karting to get into motorsports, because that costs a lot of money at the moment...
Close Up
02/08/23
The young Ukrainian driver becomes Champion at the end of a year spent largely in the hospital recovering from a very bad accident. Here is an excerpt from the long interview he gave exclusively to Vroom for the next issue of the Magazine…(fm)
Primarily, the weekend you became Champion: it might seem like a formality but Ramaekers at one point was scary. What happened in qualifying?
«In qualifying we were just at the wrong place at...
Races
02/08/23
Following the incredibly hot opening round of the Rotax Nordic Challenge 2023 in Lithuania back in May, the second edition of the competitive regional series took place in contracting conditions on the previous weekend at the Latvian 333 Baltic Circuit, Ropazi. This event was also combined with round 4 of the national Rotax Max Challenge Latvia.
Compared to the first round of the Baltic karting championship, the practice days were met with a lot of heavy rain and wind caused by the prompt arrival of local thunderstorms. This did, however,...
Races
01/08/23
After the enthusiastic Finals, the general positive feeling about the organisation and the quality of the races only served to confirm the Rotax MAX Challenge International Trophy's privileged position on the international scene.
The variable weather did nothing to tarnish the reputation of the event, whose high level of competitiveness won over the participants. Winners Emerson MacAndrew-Uren (GBR) in Micro Max, Albert...
Close Up
31/07/23
Personality and class, the qualities expressed by Lammers that, returning to the present, are finally decisive for him exactly as in the Cadet classes but, this time, at stake is the FIA Karting European title. In Cremona he was expected to take the most important exam, where it was forbidden to make mistakes. And he didn't commit any, bordering on perfection.
It is undoubtedly the season of truth for the Dutchman, finally among the greats of the premier class after a long but necessary apprenticeship. The first signs of immense growth had emerged at the...
Races
30/07/23
FIA Karting European OK and OKJ titles awarded. Lammers (Parolin/TM Kart) wins the title in OK, dominating the race weekend. Bondarev, third at the finish, is good at recovering positions and defending his championship lead against a fearsome Ramaekers, winner of the Final. TM Kart wins its first title in OK.
OK, Lammers Chapeau!
The OK Championship already had its winner even before the final was held. And the long-awaited duel for the title between Lammers and Gomez did not come to fruition. Lammers...
Races
29/07/23
Thanks to the best time in qualifying and the pole in Super Heats, Lammers is widely favored to win the European OK title. While Bondarev widely ahead in the standings risks an upset thanks to the fine performance of Belgian Ramaekers. Tomorrow is a crucial day that will award the two continental OK and OKJ Fia Karting titles.
The Saturday of the heats of the last round of the European OK and OKJ Fia Karting in Cremona rewards the best performance of Rene Lammers (Parolin/TM Kart), good at setting the second best time in...
Races
28/07/23
New edition of the RMCIT in Le Mans this weekend, where Rotax Max drivers from all over Europe compete for very high stakes..
On track until tomorrow's finals, this week an event is taking place in Le Mans that is becoming a fixed appointment for the Rotax circus, for many comparable to a single round of the European...
Races
26/07/23
Four drivers capable for winning in OK and Bondarev's chance to reach an historic milestone in OKJ will be the leitmotifs of the fiery weekend in Cremona. (fm)
The European Championship represents an important milestone for a kart driver, often more than a World Championship, also because the fact that it takes place over four rounds brings many more...
Interview
20/07/23
The 18-year-old scored his first double win in Super Formula Lights at Fuji last weekend. Stable presence in the Top 5, Enzo has found an excellent feeling with the Dallara 320 and aims to become a professional in Japan: he told us about his experience so far from home in this exclusive interview. (fm)
First, tell us about the last weekend, how was it at Fuji?
«The first qualifying went very well, we only have 2 at most 3 laps available to set the time in 10 minutes but as soon as I entered I...
Close Up
13/07/23
It rarely happens that, in sports that have seen a technical evolution, the past is regretted like in karting. Making this video we tried to understand why, with the help of two protagonists of the past and present of high profile karting. (fm)
Try to imagine tennis, or skiing: in these sports, a contemporary champion could hardly find "something good" in a tool dating back thirty years or more. It will be said that motorsport is...
Races
11/07/23
The temperature climbed to over 30 degrees Celsius across the weekend at the Karting des Fagnes circuit in Belgium and rain arrived just in time for the final races at the third round of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy 2023.
For some of the front-runners, the showers disrupted their successful campaign for points when it counted most. For others, the weather provided the break they needed to capitalise during the...
Interview
11/07/23
We interviewed one of the toughest and purest drivers in professional motorsport, the German André Lotterer, a driver born in 1981 who currently races with Porsche in the WEC and with Andretti in Formula E. (mb/fm)
Lotterer has won three Le Mans (2011-2012-2014) and a World Endurance Championship in 2012. We also remember his Junior Karting World Championship won in front of a certain Alonso, in addition to his...
