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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
