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.
Yearly Archive: 2007
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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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Parents have to learn about sportsmanship too!
There’s a great quick article on e-kmi.com about parents at the kart track. In short it advices parents not to live vicariously through their kids, don’t expect your kid to become Schumacher, don’t criticize your child and especially other kids, leave the track officials alone (please!), smile, and listen to your kid!
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Euro Max Challenge 2007 Champions
Rotax Max Euro Challenge press release including driver quotes and championship results. It was dry on Sunday despite a lot of wet racing a day earlier in the heats. Great Britain and the Netherlands dominated with no other countries taking a championship win in any of the categories.
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Aditya Patel and Chittesh Mandody India RMC Champions
The JK Tyre Indan Rotax Max Challenge saw a thrilling finale with the Senior and Junior championships going down to the wire at the race held at the track in Kolhapur.
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Euro Max Belgium
The final round of the 2007 Euro Max Challenge came to a conlcusion on Sunday. Senior winner was Stephen Tyldesley from Great Britain driving a Gillard followed closely by Mathew Hodges on a Birel. Check full results here for all …
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Rotax Euro Challenge 2007 Final Round
The final round of the 2007 Rotax Max Euro Challenge is underway in Belgium this weekend. After the qualifying heats in the senior’s it’s Ben Cooper (CRG) that leads the way from Mike Joossens (Kombikart) and Michael Simpson (Birel).
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Ardigo is 2007 World Karting Champion
Marco Ardigo took the Karting World Championship in Belgium yesterday followed by his teammate Gary Catt. The event was very much Vortex dominated with the top 3 positions going to Vortex drivers however Parilla was able to put up a …
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