The FIA World Motor Spots Council has announced some changes to regulations and other aspects of karting. These include the introduction of the CMH helmets, safety guidelines for leisure karting, and other interesting things such as the requirement of chain, brake, and ignition protection devices in certain cases. Read the full decisions on the CIK-FIA website here.
Monthly Archive: October 2007
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Snell CMR-2007 and CMS-2007 helmet standards
The Snell foundation has finalised its children’s motor sports helmet standards CMR2007 and CMS2007 which are the two standards that fall under the Snell/FIA CMH (Children’s Motorsport Helmet).
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Amaron Karting Challenge Finale
Press Release: Goa, Oct 28th, 2007: Roaring engines, screeching spins, sharp contours, thundering speeds, kissing beauties, flowing champagne – The adventure and glamour of motorsports have always turned on the passion for billions, around the world. Worldwide, perhaps no other sport matches the frenzy, the drama and the money, which is associated with this sport. And all you need is grit, guts, Go-Karting and all this in Goa. And that’s where the Amaron Karting Challenge 2007 – Grand Finale was held.
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International-level track to be built in Singapore?
With F1 fever hitting Singapore in anticipation of their first F1 race in September next year, motorsports has gathered a lot of attention of late. This has resulted to increased interest in developing the national motorsports scene and since Singapore doesn’t have a permanent track (the F1 track is a temporary street circuit), plans have been put forward to build a new race track for cars and bikes, as well as a kart track in the same complex.
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Karting in the Papers
The Weekend Mail published an article on Malaysian driver Bryan Mehta. The article is about his ambitions for the Rotax Max Grand Finals to be held in Al Ain, UAE in about a month’s time.
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Karting in Singapore? Start here!
If you live in Singapore and you’re interested in getting started in karting you should look no further than joining the recently launched amateur group from karters called “Singapore Karting Racers.” Their first event is scheduled for Nov 11th at Jurong Kart World. They have their own section in the KartingAsia.com forums here, which can also be accessed directly by pointing your browser to www.kartingsingapore.com.
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ROK Cup International Final 2007
The ROK Cup International Final has just been concluded at the South Garda Karting Track with non other than Michael Schumacher making a guest appearance at the event to greet the drivers. A fair few Asian drivers made the trip over to the event and faired quite well.
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WSK International Series 2008 Calendar
The organisers of the WSK International series have announced their 2008 calendar. The series runs the KF1, KF2, KF3, and KZ2 categories.
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KartingAsia.com Downtime
KartingAsia.com experienced ~12hrs of downtime but rest assured we haven’t gone anywhere and we’re not expecting any more problems. The problem was caused by a change in the DNS settings of the domain that didn’t quite go according to plan. Sorry for the outage, now back to karting =).
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KF3 star wins first time out with new team
Mackenzie Taylor won the first round of the Torneo Industrie (aka: the Industrial Trophy) at Parma, Italy (6 / 7 October) on his debut with Ricky Flynn Motorsport.
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Monza Kart 10-hour Endurance Race
Here’s something interesting, a 10 hour kart race on the actual Monza F1 track. 60 teams, 6-10 drivers per team, Le-Mans style start on the 28-29 June 2008….
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Thailand Karting Champs Rd.6
The 6th round of the Thailand National Karting Championships was held last weekend at the Saraburi circuit which will be getting a lot more use over the next month or so.
Round 6 results here, and pictures on kartthai.com here. For those that were racing in Saraburi, do you mind helping out a driver from Hong Kong with a bit of info about the track in the forums here?
Championship standings here.
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