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Posts tagged with "KartSport Southland"

Top KZ2 trio head Kiwi entry on Gold Coast International

Top KZ2 trio head Kiwi entry on Gold Coast

October 18th, 2019174 Top KZ2 class drivers Matthew Payne, Mathew Kinsman and Ryan Wood head an eight-strong Kiwi contingent contesting the seventh annual Race of Stars international kart event at Pimpama on Queensland’s Gold Coast this week and weekend. The meeting is part of the build-up to the Vodafone Gold Coast 600 Supercars Championship...
Win for Douglas, podium for Sharp at ROK Cup kart event in Italy International

Win for Douglas, podium for Sharp at ROK Cup kart event in Italy

October 13th, 2019217 Young Kiwi karter Jacob Douglas has claimed a breakthrough Junior ROK class win and fellow Cantabrian Louis Sharp has finished on the podium in the Mini ROK class at this year’s ROK Cup Superfinal event in Italy. Douglas, 14, and Sharp, 12, were two of eight New Zealand karters who joined over 400 of their contemporaries from...
Kiwi eight 'ready to ROK' at Superfinal in Italy International

Kiwi eight 'ready to ROK' at Superfinal in Italy

October 11th, 2019133 They have qualified by beating their peers at home. And last weekend each got to complete what effectively was a dry run at the big Trofeo D’Autunno (Autumn Trophy) meeting at the South Garda Karting Complex at Lonato in northern Italy. Now the time has finally come for the eight young Kiwi karters to join over 400 of their...
Junior karters turn up the heat at Top Gear Top Half Tokoroa round NZ CIRCUIT

Junior karters turn up the heat at Top Gear Top Half Tokoroa round

October 10th, 2019189 Cold winds and wet weather challenged drivers and crew members alike at the latest Top Gear Top Half kart series round at Tokoroa’s Stihl Shop Tokoroa Raceway over the weekend, It didn’t stop many of the Junior drivers in particular turning up the heat in their classes however. The organising club, KartSport Tokoroa, did a...
Four karters do the Garden City Double this year NZ CIRCUIT

Four karters do the Garden City Double this year

October 1st, 2019200 Four karters - William Exton (pictured) from Blenheim, Jason and Kayden Richards from Nelson and Izaak Fletcher from Christchurch – successfully completed rare winning doubles at this year’s KNXTRA Garden City Championships kart race meeting in Christchurch over the weekend, claiming class victories with wins on both...
Two sets of trophies at stake at Garden City Kart titles this weekend NZ CIRCUIT

Two sets of trophies at stake at Garden City Kart titles this weekend

September 27th, 2019191 With the final two rounds of this year’s McLaren Racing Mainland Series being run in conjunction with KartSport Canterbury’s Armstrong Motor Group Garden City Championships meeting at the club’s Carrs Rd Kart Raceway in Christchurch this weekend drivers like top local Juniors Louis Sharp and Zach Tucker have the chance to...
Osborne shows class at latest Top Gear Top Half Kart Series round NZ CIRCUIT

Osborne shows class at latest Top Gear Top Half Kart Series round

September 24th, 2019243 KartSport Rotorua’s Century Batteries International Raceway put on a class act over the weekend, with 135 entries and drivers from all across the country attending the second round of this year’s Top Gear Top Half kart series. The 1241 metre kart track high in the Mamaku Ranges allowed for an action packed weekend of racing...
Case of 'so close yet so far' for Kiwi pair at KZ2 SuperCup event in Italy this year International

Case of 'so close yet so far' for Kiwi pair at KZ2 SuperCup event in Italy this year

September 24th, 2019179 Fellow-racer-turned-mentor Daniel Bray said it best yesterday morning when – describing the last-minute derailing of both Matthew Payne’s and compatriot Dylan Drysdale’s 2019 FIA Karting International Super Cup (KZ2) campaigns at Lonato in Italy on Sunday – he said, ‘motorsport is a hard game.’ The pair were...
Douglas quick and fights his way back to 9th in FIA Karting Academy Final in Italy International

Douglas quick and fights his way back to 9th in FIA Karting Academy Final in Italy

September 23rd, 2019364 Young Kiwi karter Jacob Douglas can hold his head high this week after confirming his status as one of the top Junior drivers in the world at the final round of this year’s 2019 FIA Karting Academy Trophy Series in Italy over the weekend. The 14-year-old from Christchurch was again quick from the get-go, using his familiarity...
Entries boost for Rotorua Top Gear Top Half Series round this weekend NZ CIRCUIT

Entries boost for Rotorua Top Gear Top Half Series round this weekend

September 19th, 2019267 Off the back of a successful opening round of this year’s Top Gear Top Half kart series in Hamilton last month there has been a boost in entries – to a total of 130 - across all classes for the second round, at the KartSport Rotorua club’s Century Batteries International Raceway this weekend (Sept 21-22). The 1241 metre...
Second Aussie Kart Series class win in as many weeks for Rooney International

Second Aussie Kart Series class win in as many weeks for Rooney

September 18th, 2019183 Fast-rising young Kiwi karter Jackson Rooney has done it again. Just two weeks after claiming a breakthrough win in the TaG 125cc class at the final round of the 2019 Australian Kart  Championship in Melbourne. The 15-year-old from Palmerston North, came out on top in the Rotax 125 Light class on the second day of racing at the...
Qualifying the key to Kiwi success at KZ2 Super Cup in Italy International

Qualifying the key to Kiwi success at KZ2 Super Cup in Italy

September 17th, 2019153 If they can qualify well there is no reason why young Kiwi karters Matthew Payne (Ricciardo Kart/Vortex/Bridgestone) and Dylan Drysdale (Birel Kart/Vortex/Bridgestone) cannot do well at this weekend’s big FIA Karting International Super Cup (KZ2) meeting in Italy says someone who should know, 2018 event runner-up Daniel...
New generation rises to take on established stars at ProKart Series final in Hamilton NZ CIRCUIT

New generation rises to take on established stars at ProKart Series final in Hamilton

September 11th, 2019260 Established Kiwi kart star Mat Kinsman (pictured) wrapped up another Aarque Group KZ2 class title with a second win in as many meetings at the final round of this year’s Toyota Racing ProKart Series in conjunction with Speedworks at Hamilton on Sunday. Though Kinsman qualified quickest and won one of the four heats plus the...
Prokart Series results go down to the wire again at Hamilton this weekend NZ CIRCUIT

Prokart Series results go down to the wire again at Hamilton this weekend

September 5th, 2019249 Each year New Zealand’s KZ2-based Toyota Racing ProKart Series in conjunction with Speedworks pits a new breed of ambitious young karters against an established group of internationally-rated category regulars in a no-hold-barred battle to the top spot in one of three Aarque Group-sponsored classes. Each year, over multiple...
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