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Archive for January, 2008

Offenbach International Kart Show 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The Annual Offenbach International Kart Show is one of the biggest kart shows in the world. It was as popular as ever this year with many new products on show. Ian Turner reports for Karting1 and gets the lowdown on this years show

Some new devices were on display!
New 4 Stroke engines, and cool new devices [...]

Update – TonyKart Confirm Oliver Rowland!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Rumours have been circulating for weeks, and now TonyKart have confirmed that Junior British Karting Champion Oliver Rowland will be racing with the Italian outfit in 2008 in KF2.
Oliver was recently signed up by the McLaren Driver Development program, and will join fellow country men Catt, and Stevens in the TonyKart team.

Oli had been with [...]

Kubica and Alonso Get Back To Their Roots at Lonato!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Just of the back of testing their F1 toys, Fernando Alonso, and Robert Kubica decided they wanted to play with some real driving machines at Lonato last week. Driving a KZ spec Alonso Kart (what else would he be driving? ), Alonso, and Kubica put some impressive times in at the Italian circuit. [...]

KF1, KF2, and KF3 UK Winter Series Round 3 – PFi International

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Round 3 of the KF Winter series was held at PFi International and it’s the first big race of 2008!. The weather was variable, but only caused ‘mild’ panic on the grid as mechs frantically changed between wet and dry tyres throughout the day.

Litchfield, Foster Jones, and Taylor all had 100% win records before Round [...]

Tal-Ko Ditch Jr TKM Extreme for 2008

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Tal-Ko have announced they will not be offering Jr TKM Extreme in 2008. It was initially going to be run as a Super 1 ‘only’ class, but the idea appears to have be rejected by competitors. The Karting1 Forum members also voted 90% against the new class when it was announced. Here’s what Tal-Ko had [...]