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Archive for September, 2008

Jason Plato and Tiff Needell go at it in KF1s for TV Show 5th Gear!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

In their most recent ‘Tiff Vs Plato’ features on Channel 5 car show 5th Gear Tiff, and Plato were pitted against each other in two Kosmic KF1 karts. Jason Plato, an experienced karter, was well up for the challenge, while before the contest Tiff thought karts were ‘just toys’. A few laps later and his [...]

Mychron4 Hints and Tips and Race Studio Tutorials

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Once you are a pretty competent driver there are still huge amounts of time to find using data logging. I use Mychron4 because its easy to use and not stupidly expensive, plus loads of karters already have the base unit MyChron 4. All you have to do is then plug in the GPS unit [...]

Sunday – CIK Karting World Championship! Ardigo is champ as Kozlinski hopes die with engine failure!

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Marco Ardigo has cemented his dominance as the best kart driver on the planet with another World Championship title. Kozlinski led the early stages of the race but an engine failure saw his hopes go up in smoke. Ardigo and Catt exchanged positions in there after but it was Ardigo who managed to get his [...]

Saturday – CIK Karting World Championship! Bollingtoft on top!

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Kosmic/Vortex runner Nikolaj Bollingtoft placed himself at the top of the intermediate classifications and will start on pole position for tomorrows pre-final. He finished 3rd last year and looks very good indeed. Kozlinski is 2nd, with Gary Catt in 3rd. Behind them is Stevens, Ardigo, Fore, and then Mark Litchfield

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Friday – CIK Karting World Championship! Ardigo on top…just!

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Marco Ardigo has started his world title defence in fine style as he topped timed practise. Jack te Braak was only .041 beihind, with Honda F1 protege Will Stevens just .060 adrift. In fact the top 5 are all within a tenth of each other. Alarm bells with be ringing at the IAME base as [...]

Vettel Credits Astonishing Monza Pole, and F1 WIN to Karting!

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Some may have noticed before Spa F1 GP that KSM (Schumacher’s kart team) had Vettel test a KF spec Tonykart at Kerpen. The wet practise must have done something as Vettel stormed to his first pole in the wet conditions at Monza. He had this to say -
“In karting I always liked to do [...]

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