15 year old Australian driver Mitchell Gilbert (Energy/TM/Vega) will compete in his first British event this weekend in the fourth round of the TVKC Club Championship at the PF International Kart Circuit on Sunday 4 April.
Over 120 drivers will compete during the weekend in a three heat – one final format. Mitchell will go head to head with scores of British drivers who have spent their racing careers competing at the Lincolnshire based circuit.
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“The KZ2 podium is a very good result – said Peter de Bruijn after the race -. We are very motivated by the quality of our equipment, which will be a surprise to many during the season. We will be concentrating a lot of efforts in the gearbox category with Jack Hawksworth, and I promise you will be amazed by the development we have done with Iame. I can openly say that in 2010 we aim at the European and World Championships titles.”
Maddox grabbed a 2nd place in KZ2 with Jack Hawksworth. They also had a presence in KF3 with Lucas Auer and Tanart Sathienthirakul in KF2.
Download the Maddox Margutti Trophy Report. (pdf)
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Peter de Bruijn’s PDB Racing Team took on the grids of the 21st Margutti Trophy with a team of six drivers in KF2, KF3 and KZ2.
Download the full PDB Press Release. (pdf)
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The second round of the WSK Euro Series was held last weekend at the South Garda Karting Track in Lonato, Italy. In KF2 Australian driver Mitchell Gilbert and Indonesian driver Kevin Susilo made the final, while Thai driver Tanart Sathienthirakul had a tough weekend being classified only 65th after the heats. Kevin Susilo drove solidly in the heats starting 14th in the pre-final, but then his luck ran out with a DNF in both the pre-final and final. Mitch had 1 bad heat making it really close as he was the last (34th) driver to make the final phase. From there he worked his way to a 20th place finish in the final.
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The CIK-FIA Super KF European Championships have been cancelled after only 14 entries were received. The championship was to be a 3-round series, but won’t be run. The World Championships which are to be held in September in Spain are still going to go ahead as planned. The CIK-FIA is looking at the possibility of making the World Championships based on the KF2 category.
Full CIK-FIA release:
Having registered just 14 requests for entry to the Super KF European Championship, the CIK-FIA has had to take the decision to cancel it. This Championship should, in principle, have been run over three events. The European events in which the Super KF should have been run will, nevertheless, be retained as their programme includes other categories in which the number of entries has not suffered any shortfall.
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Australian driver Mitchell Gilbert (Energy/TM/Vega) took a podium finish after a great performance in the wet at the 21st Andrea Margutti Trophy held at the Parma Karting Circuit last weekend.
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Intrepid Force Rotax team driver Josh Hart has finished with a well-earned second place on the podium at round 2 of the Rotax Euro Challenge at Kart Planet circuit, Busca, Italy after some extremely close competition this weekend saw the New Zealander secure his best result yet for the 2009 season.
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CIK-FIA has posted a selection of videos online from 2008 racing action and the FIA awards ceremony. Videos are here on the CIK-FIA website. The videos on the site open in a new window in streaming wmv format. If you …
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Kombikart is the only Dutch manufacturer of CIK-FIA homologated race karts, operating out of a 3000m2 factory in Schijndel, Holland. With only 10 permament employees Kombikart is one of the smaller kart manufacturers, but they have still achieved a lot of success particularly in Rotax Max racing (Euro Challenge and National Championships). Their factory racing effort (Hugo Motorsports) is run by team manager Hugo van der Ham, a former Dutch kart-champion and formula car driver.
The KombiKart Challenge MKIII is the company’s only kart homologated for the 2009-2014 homologation period, and some of its unique design features ensure that despite having only one kart, it is capable of handling various different kinds of tyres and engines.
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Greetings from Italy!
Most drivers have completed their registration at the 2008 Rotax Max Grand Finals at the La Conca International Karting Circuit! Tomorrow the drivers and mechanics will get their hands on their karts and start setting up for the first on-track action on Wednesday.
Some points of interest for the drivers at the grand finals are the new clutches fitted to all the karts and the colder than expected weather (as low as 2 degrees celcius). Check out the first pictures here, and follow the discussions in the forums here.
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Italian driver Marco Ardigo (TonyKart/Vortex/B’stone) has been crowned the 2008 CIK-FIA Karting World Champion. This makes it two in a row for the Italian, and three in a row for TonyKart and Vortex. The last time a driver has won two Karting World Championships in a row was Mike Wilson in the late ’80s!
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Press Release: The third round of the national Rotax championship near Graz in Austria’s south has seen the Intrepid Force Rotax team take the honours over the weekend, as 14 year-old Niki Laa secured 1st place in Senior Max.
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