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16/09/2026
Karting has every right to be considered a sport that people with disabilities can enjoy not only at a recreational level, but also in a more competitive,...
They are called “life-changing” injuries for a reason: they change a person’s life, often in an instant. Whether the result of a road or workplace accident, a war injury or illness...
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03/09/2026
Female participation in motorsport is growing, yet many careers still appear to stall in the middle of the ladder, before reaching the top categories. We look...
Seeing far more women behind the wheel of racing cars than we did twenty or thirty years ago can send two very different messages to anyone looking at the sport: is it propaganda, or is it real...
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20/08/2026
A driver’s sporting and professional career can experience setbacks. Inconsistent results, a sponsor pulling out, or a lack of technical chemistry with a team...
When a career combines sporting performance with professional ambitions, difficulties are not an exception. Quite the opposite: they are often part of the everyday reality of anyone involved in...
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02/07/2026
The number of drivers and countries involved in the motorsport ecosystem continues to grow every year. Over the past five years, around twenty new countries...
One of the most fascinating aspects of any race weekend—and of the paddock in general—is seeing young drivers from all over the world brought together, not only for the traditional group...
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26/06/2026
Now in its fourth edition, TBKart THE FINAL continues to hold a unique appeal for drivers by offering a prize worth more than any trophy for a racer: a race...
There are only a few ways to earn a spot on the grid at the Las Vegas SuperNationals, an event whose popularity is arguably matched only by global competitions such as the FIA Karting World...
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20/06/2026
During our test day at Franciacorta dedicated to discovering the Rotax DD2, we followed the progress of three complete newcomers to the category as they faced...
As many people involved in karting know, the Rotax DD2 represents a unique proposition in today’s karting landscape: a machine powered by the powerful and reliable Rotax 125 engine, featuring two...
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08/06/2026
For the first time in 25 years, the two-time World Champion (1992 FA and 1993 FSA) got back behind the wheel of a kart in Jesolo, albeit for only a few laps,...
Nicola Gianniberti's karting career reached its pinnacle in 1993 at the World Championship in Laval, competing in the premier Formula Super A category. That championship remains the symbol of an...
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20/05/2026
Sodi has started the season very well, but the other top teams aren’t standing still. Technical changes at Birel Art and Tony add interesting elements to what...
Here we go: this weekend in Genk the first of two rounds that will decide the KZ European title is scheduled, the only FIA karting category that fields drivers well into their twenties, often...
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02/05/2026
Zanardi is not someone you can tell in a single article, because he lived many lives—so many that no single story could ever contain them all. The protagonist...
He first got into a kart because his parents—who had tragically lost a daughter in a road accident—considered a moped “too dangerous.” He experienced it alongside his father,...
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20/04/2026
It's not just about nostalgia; it's a way of living the sport, and above all, promotion, with karting entering small towns, on the streets, and especially...
In Sicily, it's normal to distinguish, at times, between the "track driver" and the "street driver"—as Gaspare Anastasi, patron of street karting in Sicily and organizer...
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10/04/2026
The "official" debut of the anti-launch system went relatively well overall, considering that drivers are adapting to a slightly different style of racing and...
Luigi Coluccio is no longer a full-time kart racer, as he now competes successfully in GT cars. He chose to enter as a Wild Card in the first round of the Champions of the Future at La Conca, as well...
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01/04/2026
Social media is full of videos, and even in streams of “official” races, on-board video contributions are sometimes included via action cameras fixed to the...
The quickest answer we can give to the question that our readers and followers often ask us after the promoter has asked them to remove the camera from the helmet or kart is “NO”, action...
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21/03/2026
Beyond all the philosophy on danger, the dramatic accident in which a 48-year-old driver lost his life brings back to the forefront the issue of circuit safety...
On Friday, March 20, at the Idéal Kart track in Juvaincourt (northeast France), a fatal accident unfortunately occurred. A 48-year-old driver in the KZ category, following a contact apparently...
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09/03/2026
The Italian manufacturer launches an even more ‘Racing’ formula to compete with the Formula Arrive and Drive, R-EVO: things get real with racing chassis and...
That the entire karting world is increasingly turning to “Arrive and Drive” solutions is no longer news. For years, not only Rental, which represents the absolute entry level of karting,...
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25/02/2026
If we want to keep it simple, it's trivially a matter of numbers: there are 22 seats in F1 and the number of drivers who every year approach single-seaters...
As long as the Motorsport narrative feeds exclusively on F1, it's possible that some even rather broad areas of motorsport remain in a corner, little illuminated by a light that currently seems...
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21/02/2026
Bodywork in karting was introduced in the 1980s not for safety reasons, as one might think, but to beautify the vehicle, which until then had been quite...
The initial phase, free of rules and limited to 135-class karts, was followed in the early 1990s by one that identified its potential function in reducing the risk of "wheel-to-wheel"...
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05/02/2026
The FIA-mandated system officially comes into force, with the stated aim of mitigating wheel-to-wheel contact effects and improving karting safety. After...
It's hard to have heard positive things about it. Even harder if you've seen them up close. If watching karts on track with the 2026 regulation-mandated parts didn't convince you, here we...
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13/01/2026
Karting in China - which, let's not forget, has a land area equal to that of the USA - sees particularly strong development in three main zones: the first in...
Starting from kart tracks, we have 5 circuits in China with CIK-FIA homologation, plus around 20 smaller tracks where club, regional, or National Championship activities take place.
As in...
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06/01/2026
The Italian driver, winner of the OK-N World Cup in Cremona, claims the end-of-year title from our magazine, selected by our readers through on-line vote. Soon...
If further proof was needed that OK-N is a category achieving its planned popularity among grassroots karting fans, the outcome of the Vroom Awards 2025 televoto confirms this trend. Jokes aside, if...
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05/01/2026
Mike Wilson passed away overnight on January 5th. With him goes another vital piece of karting history, boasting six world titles won through his crystalline...
The news hits hard, like all bad news does, striking when least expected—on a quiet day when everyone is home resting. Mike Wilson has left us, and we lose not just a good, friendly person, but...