Press Release about Karting
Rotax Max Challenge
26/11/22
Portimão, Portugal, November 25,2022 – What a lovely sunny day in the mountains of Portimao at the Kartodromo Internacional Algarve. The sun was shining the whole day and gave us beautiful weather for the traditional Drivers picture before the pre-finals of the RMCGF 2022 started.
394 Rotax racers came along the main straight, walking in their race suits for the drivers parade followed by the teams of BRP-Rotax and the Chassis Partners for the drivers picture at the Grand...
Rotax Kart
25/11/22
A New World Unfolds with the First 48V Powerpack
Gunskirchen, Austria – November 25, 2022 – BRP Inc. (TSX:DOO; NASDAQ:DOOO) is proud to announce the launch of a new e-powertrain, the Rotax E10, bolstering its electric offering for...
Rotax Max Challenge
25/11/22
RMCGF 2022 - DAY 5 KARTDROMO INTERNACIONAL DO ALGARVE (KIA)
Portimão, Portugal, November 24,2022 – Today the Kartodromo Internacional Algarve welcomed us in the morning shrouded in fog what prompted a fifteen-minute delay to the start of our on-...
Rotax Max Challenge
24/11/22
Portimão, Portugal, November 23,2022 – Yesterday saw the first real part of the full-throttle action that was experienced by the whole paddock, as all 394 drivers would brave the changeable weather conditions that saw the final part of Non-Qualifying Practice and the first five of eight classes go out for Qualifying.
With the sunshine in the skies in the morning, Junior MAX got the on-track activities underway with Morning Warm-Up on the circuit that would evolve over the course of the day’s running.
This...
Rotax Max Challenge
23/11/22
Portimão, Portugal - November 22, 2022 – After very changeable conditions during yesterday’s first on track action with a hint of sunshine from time to time, all 394 competitors from the 60 nations represented here this week would head out onto the circuit to be challenged during the first set of Non-Qualifying Practices.
It may not have been the best way for the drivers in all eight classes to get used to their brand chassis supplied by Sodikart, Praga by IPK and BirelART, but there was a lot of hard work to get...
Rotax Max Challenge
21/11/22
Portimão, Portugal - November 21, 2022 – We look back at yesterday, when the 2022 RMC Grand Finals were truly opened via the Welcome Briefing in the morning. 394 drivers received their brand new karts through the customary raffle on the main start-finish straight underneath the beautifully sunlit Portuguese skyline.
Along with that, drivers would also head to the nearby Autodromo Internacional do Algarve for the mandatory briefings that afternoon, with the paddock tent being a busy hive of activity all day long...
Rotax Max Challenge
20/11/22
Portimão, Portugal, November 20, 2022 – Bem vindo and welcome to the 22nd edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals (RMCGF) being hosted at the Kartodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimão.
Once again, the bond that stretches across the global Rotax family is continued with this highlight of the racing season, where we will witness 394 drivers from across the world compete over the next...
Haase
17/11/22
Haase's season is full of results worldwide. In Santo Domingo, it's absolute domination!
Haase's season could not but end in the best possible way. In fact, in the Santo Domingo championship, the well-known constructor from Brescia managed to win 13 podiums in eight different...
FIA Karting
16/11/22
It has been talked about since the beginning of the OK-N project, and the OKN-Junior is now a reality. Full-scale tests have enabled the CIK-FIA to validate the definition of the OKN-Junior engine to extend the OKN's field of action to younger drivers as easily as possible, with a simple exhaust flange. A single engine unit can therefore power drivers in both categories of the most accessible competition offered by the CIK-FIA for national markets.
Two engines in one
A simple and economical solution has been chosen for the Junior version of the OK-N. A 26 mm flange on the exhaust differentiates the OKN-Junior from the senior OK-N. The engine...
Anatoly Khavalkin
15/11/22
The weekend of Lonato concluded Anatoly Khavalkin's season, third place for the Parolin driver in the overall classification of the WSK Final Cup 2022.
A season that Anatoly will remember for a long time, despite all the events of the season, the Parolin team driver never gave up, managing to bring home great results such as the victory in the FIA...
Birel ART
15/11/22
The last competition of the season, the second round of the WSK Final Cup was not lacking in excitement with a field of more than 300 drivers on the Lonato circuit.
The Birel ART Racing team showed a good level of performance in all three categories, but the hazards of the race did not make it easy to obtain results in line with the competitiveness of the Birel...
Rotax Kart
15/11/22
Gunskirchen, Austria, November 14, 2022 – Another milestone in the longlasting history of Rotax Karting took place this week: the 125.000th edition of a Rotax 125 MAX engine left the assembly line at BRP-Rotax in Gunskirchen, Austria.
Introduced in 1997, the Rotax 125 MAX engine can proudly be named a success story.
“When we launched the Rotax 125 MAX karting engine in 1997, we wanted to give the driver more time on the...
Rotax Kart
09/11/22
Gunskirchen/Genk, November 8th, 2022 – The Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Golden Trophy took place once again last weekend at Karting Genk in Belgium.
181 competitors from 26 nations dueled at the demanding ‘Home of Champions’ and delivered exciting racing in the alternating weather conditions. In the evening, five class winners were...
Birel ART
08/11/22
The WSK Final Cup, the last series of the season, started at the beginning of November at the Circuito Internazionale Napoli.
The new KZ S15 chassis developed for the 2023 season proved to be well conceived, allowing Giuseppe Palomba and Cristian Bertuca to put in top performances against worthy opponents. Kirill Kutskov...
Anatoly Khavalkin
08/11/22
A convincing return to the track for the European Champion Anatoly Khavalkin, second place at the end of the first round of the WSK Final Cup at Sarno.
The Parolin driver continues his growth in performance and experience in the new OK Senior category. A demanding weekend above all because of the complicated weather conditions, especially on Friday...
Rotax Kart
03/11/22
Gunskirchen/Genk, November 2nd 2022 – For the European Rotax elite and many competitors travelling from abroad, a big event is coming up next weekend.
In Genk, Belgium, the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Golden Trophy is a top-class individual event under the banner of the international Rotax racing series – the RMCET. More than 200 drivers from...
Anatoly Khavalkin
02/11/22
Last competition of the year for Anatoly Khavalkin, ready to take part in the first act of the WSK Final Cup at Sarno.
After the break of the last few weeks, the reigning European OK Junior Champion is ready to get back on track to continue his acquaintance with the OK Senior category in which he has just arrived,...
CRG Racing Team
06/10/22
Swedish, 18 years old, Viktor Gustafsson is the new KZ World Champion, the top shifter class of international karting. He started racing in karting at the age of 5 and like many children who dream of becoming the best in this sport, he followed a path of sporting growth that soon took him outside the borders of Sweden, to face international competitions and this year, in his first season as a CRG official driver, on September 4th he has won the most important race of his career up to now at Le Mans: the FIA World Championship KZ.
We have met him at the CRG Factory a few days after this great sporting result and we have asked him some questions to get to know him better and to go back over the fantastic Le Mans weekend with...
Birel ART
04/10/22
The WSK Open Cup is a competition that the Birel ART Racing Team has often won. The Birel ART karts never lack performance on the demanding circuit of Lonato and the 2022 edition was no exception to the rule.
Giuseppe Palomba, the top representative of his team, achieved a brilliant 2nd place in KZ2, while Kirill Kutskov made a remarkable debut in OK with his Birel ART-TM.
The prestige of the WSK...
Anatoly Khavalkin
28/09/22
It is time for a change for the reigning European Champion, ready to make his debut in the new category.
Anatoly Khavalkin makes his 2023 rehearsals this weekend at the South Garda Karting of Lonato, a track that the Parolin driver rediscovers after some time and that will be the scene of his first new...
