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Archive for September, 2007

Conclusions from the World Championship

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Marco Ardigo has finally won the Karting World Championship. However questions will be raised about the performance of the Vortex KF1 engines over everyone else. There is no doubt Ardigo is a worthy winner, and he has been waiting to win the World Karting Championship for a long time. He probably would have won on [...]

Marco Ardigo Is CIK KF1 2007 World Karting Champion!

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

As predicted Marco Ardigo took title glory in a Vortex dominated World Karting Championship! In an uneventful race, Ardigo took the lead early, and him and Catt stretched away into the lead.
Race analysis below>>

Final Report

Ardigo took the lead early, from Bollingtoft, and Catt in 3rd. Kozlinski was looking good for a decent result, but a [...]

Saturday – CIK KF1 2007 World Karting Championship! Vortex/TonyKart Dominate!

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

It’s Qualifying day at Mariembourg for CIK Karting World Championship. We’ll keep you updated with all the latest qualifying and heat results!
Saturday’s Overall Classification and Grid For Sunday’s Pre-Final
1 Catt Gary GB
2 Ardigo Marco I
3 Bollingtoft Nikolaj DK
4 Bailly Benjamin B
5 Calado James GB
6 Cesetti Sauro [...]

Friday – CIK KF1 2007 World Karting Championship!

Friday, September 21st, 2007

It’s Friday of the Karting World Championships, and we have practise analysis. The KF1 grid has been spilt into odd and even numbers.
In Practise 2 for the odd numbers Armand Kozlinski has been setting a rapid pace with Davide ‘always turns it on at the World Championship’ Fore closely behind in 2nd place. TM will [...]

Tal-Ko Announces Changes to Junior TKM Class Structure, and Introduce Junior Extreme!

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

As expected Tal-Ko have introduced a new weight/restrictor system for Junior TKM for 2008. This is to combine the Junior TKM, and Junior TKM Intermediate classes. However, rather surprisingly, Tal-Ko have announced the new ‘Junior Extreme’ class. The concept of the class is to use the BT82 ‘Extremed’ to 115cc in the same way the [...]

Aixro XR50 – Mercedes Choice For McLaren SLR Training!

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

If you want to know what kart one of the biggest car companies in he world – Mercedes – use to train customers how to drive their flagship SuperCar, the McLaren SLR, then look no further than the Aixro XR50. We have obtained some pictures showing you the fleet of Mercedes stickered Aixro [...]

British Karting Titles Decided at S1 Clay!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Oliver Rowland at long last has picked up the Junior British Karting Championship. After some brilliant double wins this year Oliver bagged enough points at the final round in Clay to take the title. In Seniors Chris Rogers managed to take the title away from his team mate Mark Litchfield.
Junior British Karting Champion (JICA)
1. [...]

Update – Schumacher to Compete at KF1 World Championships?

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

The rumour has been hot since early this year, but according to Eurosport, the Michael Schumacher will compete at this years CIK KF1 World Karting Championship at Mariembourg in Belguim.
He had participated in a few early KF1 tests in Italy with the TonyKart/Vortex team, so it doesn’t come as a big surprise.
The TonyKart/Vortex KF1 [...]