Press Release
SINGAPORE, 7 APRIL 2012: Kartmaster Drakar Racing Team, a Singapore motorsports team, are gearing up for the new kart-racing season with a new line-up, new sponsors and ambitious plans.
With two championship-winning drivers, Opai Naufal and Jon Lee, leading the charge, the local side have added four more youngsters – Josh Lee, Santos Bala, Darryl Wenas and Andersen Marton° – to their stable of talented starlets.
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RMC Asia rounds 1 & 2 are covered in the latest issue of Vroom Karting Magazine, with articles by Mikko Nassi of KartingAsia.com and photos by Mikko Nassi (rd.1) and Benjamin Leong (rd.2). Have a peek at the rest of the issue on Vroom’s website.
In addition to Vroom the races are also covered in the new free on-line Asian motorsports magazine Pit Talk Asia (register on their website here to read the issue).
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The Petron Karting Super Series got its 2012 season under-way with over 60 entries for the opening round held at the Carmona Circuit. In the main ROK category VJ Suba held off Franco Reyes during the early stages until Reyes faced mechanical problems dropping him out of the race. This allowed Milo Rivera to move up and finish the race in 2nd a few seconds adrift of his team-mate Reyes.
A few articles from Philippines website: PhilStar, Inquirer.
A few pictures of the event can be viewed on Point Zero Project’s flickr page.
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The 2012 Grand Finals will be held at the Kartodromo international Algarve in Portugal on the 28/11 – 01/12. Rotax has announced the chassis partners, with 1 completely new name to the Grand Finals in Mach 1. Birel, Sodi, and Haase are the other chassis partners for 2012 and have all supplied karts to Grand Finals before.
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Press Release:
The March 17-18 weekend was the second round of the Rotax Max Challenge 2012 at the Speedway PLUS Circuit in Subang.
Malaysian team, Stratos Motorsports, ran six karters in this round.
In the Senior category: Silvano Christian (Indonesia), Selvan Loganathan (Malaysia),
Tommy Soebroto (Indonesia)
In the Junior category: Daniel Woodroof (Malaysia), Daniel Martin (Malaysia)
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Press Release:
Malaysia, 19 March 2012 – Daim Hishammudin started the race weekend well with his usual quick pace at Round 2 of the Rotax Max Challenge (RMC) and Asia Max Challenge (AMC). Held on 17 – 18 March at the 959-metre PLUS Speedway at Subang, Malaysia, the 13-year-old Singaporean was in strong contention for a podium finish until he had a mistake that took him out of the running and unfortunately relegated him to the back of the grid.
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