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01/02/2024
The return of the Kali Kart brand to the international racing scene – such as WSK events and soon FIA Karting – has generated a lot of interest and curiosity...
For quite some time, the brand was not active with an official team, and it is noteworthy that the new generations find it challenging to connect it with prestigious names from karting's past...
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08/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
ROTAX DD2 MASTERS
Following the dream run of the talented Junior Tomass Stolcermanis in 2021, the fire has been burning in the Latvian team camp to bring another champion home from the Grand Finals....
Stories
08/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals
KARTODRÓMO INTERNACIONAL ALGARVE, Portimao (Portugal), November 19th-26th 2022
ROTAX DD2
The dream to become the first driver to hold the Rotax Grand...
Stories
07/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals
KARTODRÓMO INTERNACIONAL ALGARVE, Portimao (Portugal), November 19th-26th 2022
SENIOR MAX
Missing out on the victory in 2021 amidst the controversy in...
Stories
07/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals
KARTODRÓMO INTERNACIONAL ALGARVE, Portimao (Portugal), November 19th-26th 2022
JUNIOR MAX
Juniors always brings the rising stars into the mix at the top...
Stories
07/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals
KARTODRÓMO INTERNACIONAL ALGARVE, Portimao (Portugal), November 19th-26th 2022
MINI MAX
Christopher Feghali has already won the hearts of Lebanon as a...
Stories
07/12/2023
While waiting to get into the heart of the 2023 competition, let's relive, together with the protagonists, the outcome of the last edition, held in Portimao,...
Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals
KARTODRÓMO INTERNACIONAL ALGARVE, Portimao (Portugal), November 19th-26th 2022
MICRO MAX
The pride of Portugal was awakened in the form of an 11-year-...
Stories
10/03/2023
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...
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...
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01/06/2022
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...
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...
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11/05/2022
The European KZ and KZ2 Championship starts in Genk, the track that probably more than any other has always expressed the values of the 125 shifter class at...
The queen class is also ready to take to the track. Even if with the formula of only two races - not very appreciated by the sector - to define the new European Champions. The Genk track is the most...
Stories
06/04/2022
The Fia Karting European Championship is about to start with the first OK/OKJ round on the Portimao circuit, a stage in Portugal which has already been...
In the hope that the weather conditions will be favourable, thus avoiding an event with little credibility for the image of karting (as happened at the 2020 World Championship run with rain due to...
Stories
04/01/2022
We have retrieved from our archives, on the occasion of Michael Schumacher's 53rd birthday, the article by Vroom in memory of the last round of the 2001 FSA...
Making a comparison, it is like imagining today a starting grid of the next OK World Championship with Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen. It seems unthinkable, but something similar happened in 2001,...
Stories
15/12/2021
A tribute to all the participants of the 21st edition organized this year at the Bahrain International Karting Circuit in Sakhir.
Starting February 2021 Vroom has begun the publication of the RMCGF events from the very first edition in Puerto Rico in November 2000 up to the 20th held in Sarno, Italy, in October 2019.
From...
Stories
04/06/2021
I spent two weeks in the home of Paul when I was 18 years old (J.W.)
Outstanding Italian karter formerly racing with GKS support, three times CIK-FIA World Karting Champion & five times European Champion, World Cup and twice Asia-Pacific Champion, multiple Winter...
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27/05/2021
“I can speak for hours about Paul in my time with GKS for 10 years. I’m not coming from a racing family whatsoever, unlike lots of the kids who were around...
Robin Frijns - Lives close by to Genk, a successful Dutch karter with GKS with podiums also in European and French Championships, a Formula BMW Europe, Eurocup FR 2.0 & FR 3.5 Series’...
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26/05/2021
Successful Belgian GKS karter with three national titles, winner of the Monaco Kart Cup and World Cup Formula A before winning the Belgian Formula Renault...
«A few people have an impact on you in your life, your parents and some others. I always thought of Paul as a second father figure in a way, shaping me as a driver and the person in and out of...
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25/05/2021
Jos Verstappen considered the most successful Dutch F1 racing driver before retiring to mentor his son Max for Formula One, he was a Le Mans LMP2...
«I still remember the first day they were building the original track in Genk, I was about 9 or 10 years of age, there was only the track and a lot of orange sand alongside it. Paul was in the...
Stories
17/03/2021
100 years of Rotax represent 100 years of history of mobility – including almost half a century of karting history. The development of the BRP-Rotax kart...
While Rotax engines had long been an established brand in motorcycles, they had to break new ground in karting. With the entry of Bombardier into the motorcycle market, the Rotax engine type 124 used...
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20/07/2020
Jerry Solt of Findlay Ohio, owner of one of the oldest kart manufacturing companies in the USA died 18th of July 2020. Jerry was almost 86 years of age and had...
Solt Automotive Engineering or SAE for short was first and foremost back in 1957 an automobile repair garage operated by Russell Solt a gifted engine builder. Russell and his son Jerry first tried...
Stories
22/06/2020
With the European season still stopped, the original events still slip as the umpteenth long-awaited Genk weekend.
The alert period for the virus has inevitably changed the face of the season's calendar, which is still immature for now but given as a starter in August. In these summer days we should have told...