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Archive for May, 2009

Time Bring Back Berci? Loeb Tests Kart!

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Casey Stoner, Troy Bayliss, Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Robert Kubica, Sebastian Loeb and many more world class drivers in their respective motorsport have been snapped testing real full-on proper karts over the winter and now into the 09 season! So with the karting bug truly biting all these drivers is the [...]

‘KF3 Senior’ Proposed by Paul Fletcher

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Kart Team and Track Owner Paul Fletcher has confirmed he is pushing for the introduction of an exciting new class provisionally named ‘KF3 Senior’. The concept of the class is to introduce an affordable route into KF racing at a club level using multiple engine manufacturers.
KF4 was originally proposed as the club level version [...]

Race to Win a new Golf GTi – Virtually!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

To celebrate the release of their new Golf GTi, VW have put together a nifty little racing game you can play online, where high scorers go through to a prize draw to win a new Golf GTi for 3 months.
The game itself can be found here GTI Project website
It’s based on a Scalextric track and [...]

Cooper takes double KF1 victory at Shenington

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Strawberry’s Ben Cooper scored sensational back-to-back victories at last Sunday’s (10 May) second round of the MSA British Super 1 Championship, whilst team-mate Luke Wright took his maiden KF1 podium.
In the KF2 class Chris Lock had a tougher time, but showed the character that made him European Rotax Champion last year – a consistent [...]

Success in Super 1 for MSW Team Drivers

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

MSW kart shop would like to congratulate Jack Mitchell on leading the Honda S1 after two rounds and Team Manager Mike Spencer on leading Rotax S1 after two rounds.
Both drivers fully deserve to be at the top and look forward to Round 3.
We would also like to congratulate all our other team drivers:
Aaron Drury
Jack Bartholomew
Ennam [...]

Ben Cooper Thanks Team For Fantastic Weekend!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

KF1 Championship leader Ben Cooper had an awesome weekend at Shenington, but had to battle through problems in the heats to earn his victories…
The weekend started off a little bit steady as we were at much the same speed as others if not a tenth off, but we were always trying new things with the [...]

New Maranello Cadet Released in UK

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The all new Maranello Cadet Chassis is now available from Rapid Motor Sport and is straight on the pace at PFI Internatinal after just a couple of test sessions. The cadet kart worked exceptionally well and was extremely easy to set up.
The new cadet kart comes with; a quick release chain guard, Maranello [...]

KF1 Drivers Resist Further Changes to Regulations

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Last weekend The KF1 drivers were called into a meeting with MSA Chief Colin Hilton to discuss the current regulations used in the KF1 class and whether they should use the 2009 CIK KF1 regulations. It was decided at the first round that the 2009 KF1 Championship would stick with the 2008 KF1 regulation (albeit [...]

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