From Kart to F1
From Kart to F1
23/12/2025
Choosing the right category in karting carries significant weight for those aiming for a genuine path to Formula Racing. It's not just about when to start, but...
The stories current active drivers tell about their 'first time' are roughly the same: a kart gifted for Christmas, or a rental kart spin at the local track nearby home—from there, the...
From Kart to F1
02/12/2025
The Italian, Champion in his first year in F2 after the 2024 F3 title, shows that the peak is reached through long, steady, and serious growth in the key...
If you were looking for the meaning of the term ‘Underdog’, often used in recent years, you wouldn’t have trouble grasping the concept by thinking of the career of Leonardo...
From Kart to F1
09/11/2025
Spoiler: the Papaya duo wouldn’t stand a chance. Son of a different, now long-buried karting era, Max has a completely different path in his veins compared to...
Think of any regular OK driver, maybe even a winner, one of those paying Academy contract youngsters with neatly styled hair waiting for their fifteenth birthday to race in F4—with a lineup of...
From Kart to F1
30/10/2025
The Formula Regional 2026 will use the Toyota 3-cylinder turbo engine from the Yaris GR. This is an interesting unit in a world increasingly short of high-...
Among the many questionable and illogical decisions made over the years by the European Commission, the ban on thermal engines in the automotive sector has brought European manufacturers to the brink...
From Kart to F1
21/09/2025
Providing the exact same equipment to all drivers on track has for many years served as a kind of guarantee that the difference on track comes only from the...
If you think about it, FIA karting and Formula 1, the two extremes of the pyramid, are the only areas where competition is open in terms of chassis and engines: everything in between, speaking of...
From Kart to F1
12/08/2025
A start-line massive crash during one of the recent races in the Italian F4 Championship has brought back a recurring debate: just how safe is Formula 4, and,...
Italiaracing.net gathered opinions from the F4 paddock following the start incident in Race 2 at Imola during the latest round of the Italian Championship. The crash was severe and, given the...
From Kart to F1
28/07/2025
The issue of pressure on Mercedes’ young talent was quickly brushed aside—only to become dramatically relevant again at the first, completely normal,...
In a way, you reap what you sow. If, in recent years, the trend has been to dramatize the narrative of F1 to the point of distorting it—from ‘Drive to Survive’ (not coincidentally...
From Kart to F1
02/06/2025
Just one year younger than the Italian-born prodigy, Arvid Lindblad could make his Formula 1 debut at the same age as Toto Wolff’s golden boy. And perhaps, at...
Much like Antonelli’s karting path, Lindblad’s story features a major crash that could have derailed everything. And like Antonelli, he delivered a stunning debut in KZ, taking a podium...
From Kart to F1
31/01/2025
Minardi’s Ferrari Driver Academy driver was awarded the trophy last Wednesday in London by the prestigious magazine Autosport for achieving third place in the...
Maya’s season started on a steeper hill than expected, as she collected just two podiums in the first six races. But her ability to set up the car changed her fortunes in Zandvoort, and from...
From Kart to F1
29/01/2025
This week marks the beginning of a monthly-based collaboration between Vroom and one of the most experienced experts in the four-wheel motorsport feeder series...
Stories like Hamilton’s or Verstappen’s (who, despite not being part of an academy, reached F1 at a very young age), and now Antonelli’s have ingrained in the public’s mind...
From Kart to F1
13/01/2025
Luka Sammalisto will contest the 2025 Italian F4 season with US Racing. The Finnish driver, recently turned 17 years old, already has a season of experience in...
To best prepare, Luka will carry out an intense testing program on all the tracks of the 2025 championship. Furthermore, he will compete in the Portimão and Barcelona Formula Winter Series...
From Kart to F1
12/01/2025
Federico Sbardellati begins a new chapter in his career. After the magnificent performance in last year’s Wolf Racing Cars Contest, the 14-year-old Italian got...
Alongside his racing, Federico is set to drive the Wolf car in a testing program in order to get ready for his debut in the 2026 Italian Sport Prototypes Championship.
Giovanni Minardi: «I...
From Kart to F1
11/01/2025
Minardi Management is excited to announce the signing of new driver Maya Weug. The 2004 born Dutch-Spanish is a Ferrari Driver Academy since 2021. Since then,...
Considered one of the most talented female drivers, she has no problems adapting to different cars and teams. Her meticulous approach allows her to get the most out of the car every time, even when...
From Kart to F1
25/09/2024
The Academy Program was created with a dual purpose: to expand the karting base worldwide and to open the door for many potential talents seeking visibility...
Academies have been much talked about in recent years. In some cases, they are mentioned when a driver is enrolled by academies based on their karting results, at a point when a management agency is...
From Kart to F1
24/08/2024
The Australian son of a motorsport legend has been promoted to a full-time driver for 2025 with the team that Briatore has been tasked with rebuilding, though...
During a monobrand race in Lonato a few years ago, Jack's father remarked, “Karting is much safer than motorcycling. Today, my son dreams of F1, but maybe in a few years, he’ll choose...
From Kart to F1
12/08/2024
By now, it's all anyone talks about, especially in Italy: Antonelli stepping up to F1. It’s no longer a matter of “if,” but “when.” Many express concern that...
The technical highlights of Andrea Kimi Antonelli's debut with Mercedes F1 are numerous, with the most intriguing one for the media being that, ten years after Verstappen, a very young talent is...
From Kart to F1
01/07/2024
The 2013 episode in Bahrain, when Max Verstappen shut Nielsen out, causing him to lose the KF World Championship, reminds us of the tenacious nature of the...
There was a time, not too long ago, when the Karting World Championship was decided in two rounds. It's late November 2013, and sixteen-year-old Max arrives in Bahrain for the second and decisive...
From Kart to F1
06/05/2024
His first Formula 1 victory, achieved in Miami in his sixth year in F1 and 110th GP, comes exactly ten years after the Essay World Championship, where at not...
With the baby face of someone who looks even younger than his actual 14 years – Lando was born in November 1999 - Norris stood atop the KF World Championship podium as the winner at the end of...
From Kart to F1
10/03/2024
Months after Liam Lawson, another very convincing debut in F1 by a driver who has indeed raced in karting, but not FIA karting (fm)
The question is legitimate, considering the way the FIA has integrated karting, given the consequences it has had and is having on karting: what is the link between FIA karting and Formula 1? If we...
From Kart to F1
07/01/2024
Today, the seven-time World Champion celebrates his 39th birthday, a protagonist of a sports career both dazzling and enduring...(fm)
His contract with Mercedes is dated 2025, so, worst-case scenario, we'll see him behind the wheel of an F1 car well beyond his 40th birthday.
Lewis is a driver with a rather unique trajectory,...