Released by the organisers. Schedule and bulletins for this Sunday’s race as well as the current championship points standings.
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Avid hobby karter and car racer Chris Setterington has developed an online kart racing sim called Casual Karting. Point your browser over to www.casualkarting.com to give the game a go.
The game loads in the browser and can be played with your keyboard, joystick, or even steering wheel! The AI competitors seems hopeless but the game has a lot of potential. I couldn’t get my wheel working the way I’d like to so I will give it a proper go later to see what it’s really like.
The sim as explained on the home page:
Casualkarting.com began as an idea to teach children the basics of karting by simulation before letting them loose on the track. With advances in technology, it is evolving from not only being a teaching tool, but into a community based race simulator.
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Mutiara Damansara, Thursday: After a long break, the hotly contested Sonik Sport Asia Series continues at the Sepang International Circuit this weekend 17th July, arguably one of the most high-tech and technically challenging tracks in the calendar.
Sepang Go-Kart Circuit which is part of the ‘compound’ of the Formula One Circuit, has been established as one of the finest karting circuit in the Asian region, and with its newly refurbished facilities, it’s set to welcome the Sonik Sport Asia drivers with full enthusiasm. The circuit itself, run clock-wise, has a very smooth tarmac surface, the same material used on the Formula One Circuit, added with corners resemblance of the big circuit, making racing here full of overtaking opportunities.
For the first time this weekend, there will be no less 15 drivers representing five countries namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Philippines. There will be the return of some of the top drivers in the region, including Kosmic’s BHPetrol Racing driver, Wei Ron Tan, Gillard’s IS Racing, Farriz Fauzy, CRG Junior Team Asia’s Calvin Wong and not to forget the young protégé of 14-year old Syazwan Mohd Noor who just returned from Ortona, Italy for the CIK/FIA Academy Trophy race.
Nabil Jeffri of Comma Motorsport onboard the GP Racing kart is currently leading the Sonik Senior category leaderboard, with 123 points, followed by young sensation, Syazwan Mohd Noor of Dash Racing with 110 points. Sonik Master is lead by Jeremy Nyam of RL Karting on board the Birel Chassis with 123 points followed closely by his team-mate from Sri Lanka, Romani De Silva with 95 points. Watch-out for new-comer, Lai Wee Sing of IS Racing who in the last event won two out of three races and will be making further progress in the Sonik Master standings.
Two new exciting entries to the series will be Malaysian Timothy Yeo, 14 and India’s hopeful Parth Ghorpade, 17. Parth Ghorpade is a two time Rotax Max Junior Champion and last year’s Rotax Senior Champion in his home country, India. Currently he is competing in the Autosport Academy F4 Renault 1.6 Eurocup. 14 year-old Timothy Yeo is the son of Asian multiple touring car champion, Eric Yeo and has notched up impressive results in the regional racing league and now competes for CRG Junior Team Asia in the Asian Karting Open Championship.
As usual, race day on Sunday will begin with Official Free Practice followed by Qualifying.
Race 1’s starting grid will be the result of Qualifying while Race 2 will be the finishing order of Race 1 with the top eight grid being reversed, providing interesting race for the teams and spectators. Race 3’s grid will be the second best qualifying time order. Sonik Sport Asia Series is the new ultimate one-make series for karting utilizing Maxter’s extensive research in the internationally recognized KF engine concept, providing competitors and teams with the access to state-of –art technology kart racing at an affordable price and cost-effective. All engines are strictly scrutinized and sealed to provide absolute equality. The 32 horsepower Sonik Sport engine is recommended to run up to 40 hours before rebuild. Extensive test has been carried out by Series Organizer, Iru1 Motorsports Sdn Bhd, to ensure the engine run at its optimum level performance while maintaining the reliability of the engine. The results so far has been impressive with lap times continue to match the benchmark KF2 machines.
Series CEO, Sonik Sport Asia Series, Nik Iruwan Dato’ Nik Izani commented: “Sonik Sport engines continue to impress the karting market with its impressive performance and reliability which together with organized and fair play event, we are confident that Sonik Sport Asia Series will continue to grow into a very important one-make series in the future. The presence of important drivers and teams in the region is resemblance of this and we are proud to see the grid continue to grow from each round. We would like to thank Maxter Srl for the support and the organizing committee for putting up a good job the event. We look forward to see an exciting race this weekend!”
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There’s a new member in our karting forums that seems to know his stuff about brakes. Karters often disregards brakes as an important performance factor and only attend to them when they feel completely wrong or stop working completely.
The thread already has a lot of info such as the correct way to bed-in your brake pads (which is critical for brake performance).
If you’ve ever had any questions about karting brakes head on to the braking thread and ask away.
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Danish driver Nicolaj Moller Madsen won the Senior category at round 1 of AKOC held in Macau last weekend. He took the win with a comfortable gap to Indonesian driver Zahir Ali in 2nd place and Andrew Tang (Singapore) in 3rd.
The Junior category winner was Arjun Maini from India after a DQ for the initial winner Daim Hishammudin (underweight). Sasakorn Chaimongkol (Thailand) finished also finished ahead of Arjun Maini but a 3 second penalty for bumping dropped him to 2nd while Timothy Yeo (Malaysia) was 3rd.
In MiniROK Veravich Wongsanganan won ahead of Sasint Kongpatanakul and Kush Maini. Full pre-final and final results for all categories below.
Round 1 AKOC Results:
Senior Pre-Final
Senior Final
MiniRok Pre-Final
MiniRok Final
Junior Pre-Final
Junior Final
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Press Release: This weekend was the first round of the prestigious Asian Karting Open Championship 2011 held in Macau. The event attracted a strong field of karters not only from many Asian countries but also from Europe.
Malaysian team, Stratos Motorsports, was there with Malaysian Daniel Woodroof who competed in the Formula 125 Open Junior (KF3) category.
The event consisted of qualifying, three heats and a pre-final on Saturday July 2 and the final on Sunday July 3. Despite damp conditions on the testing days running up to the event, the races themselves were held in clear conditions.
Daniel didn’t have a great start on Saturday, qualifying only 8th. And in heat 1, the kart refused to start on the grid so he had to start from the pit lane. However he made his way through the field in heat 1 finishing 10th. As the day progressed, Daniel continued to improve with a 9th place finish in heat 2 and 4th place in heat 3. In the last race on Saturday, the pre-final, he maintained that 4th place, putting him in a good position for the final on Sunday.
In the final Daniel started well, running in the top 3 for most of the race. Then on one corner he was pushed wide and dropped to 9th. He pushed hard in the remaining laps, working his way up to 5th by the finish and a hard-earned podium place.
This is the first AKOC podium for Daniel and Stratos Motorsports and we look forward to many more.
Stratos Motosports is now packing and shipping equipment to round 2 of this event which will be held in the Philippines July 30/31, 2011.
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