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Archive for June, 2009

KF1: Jonathan Walker Confirms He’ll Compete At Whilton Super 1

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

A stuck open throttle saw Jonathan Walker bury himself hard into the barriers at the last round of the British Karting Championships at Rowrah. He returned to compete in the Grand Final but there were doubts whether he could make the Whilton Mill round of the championship due to a knee injury and damaged wrist. [...]

Super 1 Rotax to Introduce Clutch Slip Detectors?

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The Super 1 Championship have been discussing whether competitors would like to see the introduction of separate Unipro data loggers to detect excessive clutch slip in the Rotax classes. However it does come at a cost as the mounting kits and sensor cost £117 for each competitor.

This system is already used in the KF classes
The [...]

SmartyCam Onboard Camera and Datalogger Tested – Is this the Ultimate Kart Training Tool?

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Karters have been using onboard cameras like the GoPro for a while, they are great fun and fantastic for kart training, but the SmartyCam blows all other video cameras out of the water – so much so that after we tested it we ordered one for ourselves!
Here is KF3 Super 1 racer Ryan Burns giving [...]

Nutrition For Karters by Karl Bickley

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Professional motor sports fitness coach Karl Bickley has written a article of nutrition for kart drivers for Karting1. Click here to check it out>>

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Manor Competition Offer KF1 Champ Free Race Car Test!

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

New F1 Team entrant (?) Manor Competition have announced they will be giving a fully funded test drive to whoever wins this years British Karting Championship in one of their single seater race cars. The team hopes to build closer ties to the pinnacle of kart racing in the United Kingdom. They had this to [...]

Litchfield Returns to Form and Takes Double win at Rowrah!

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Mark Litchfield returned to the form that took him to the British Championship last year by taking both final wins at Rowrah today. In KF2 Jordan Chamberlein also double up, while in KF3 Jake Dennis and Alex Albon shared a victory each.

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Valentino Rossi to Race Super Karts at Laguna Seca

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Valentino Rossi has confirmed he will be racing in the special SuperKart race organised the Thursday before the US MotoGP. Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson , Wayne Rainey will also be competing in Yamaha TZ-250 super-karts with Valentino.
Racing karts is not alien to Rossi who won the Junior Italian karting Champion as a kid before moving [...]

Robbie Shine’s – Robbie Gallier Wins at Dunkeswell

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Not only was it a great weekend for weather, it was also a great weekend for young 12 year old Karter from Lympsham at the Devon track, Mansell Raceway in Dunkeswell. Robbie was in blistering form, quite literally, as he had blisters on his hand from the new driving gloves.
Nothing was going to stop the [...]

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