karting and kart racing free tips home  
Home | Karting News | Karting1 Forum | Kart Driving Tips | Kart Tests | Kart Technical | Top Drivers | Track Guides | Kart Gallery | Race Reports | Advertise |

Archive for the 'Kart Racing News' Category

Gran Turismo 5 – Karting Footage Emerges!

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Gran Turismo 5 – the most highly anticipated console racer – recently announced they would be including karts in their game, and now footage has emerged of gameplay. Check it out -

First impressions suggests the inclusion of karts (which appear to be Yamaha KT100s)  in GT5 are more of a gesture than an accurate recreation [...]

The Joy of 100cc Karting

Friday, August 13th, 2010

I was going to start this with a fantastically elaborate metaphor explaining what’s so magic about owning and driving a 100cc kart. How it compared to owning an Alfa Romeo instead of a boring VW Polo or something about a painter over-working a piece of art. However I am not as good as Jeremy Clarkson [...]

Ardi-no-go! Top drivers look set to miss out at CIK World Karting Championship!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Some of the world’s best kart drivers look set to miss out on the biggest race of the year – The CIK World Karting Championship at Zeura, Spain. Section 18 of latest Sporting Regulations from the CIK for the 2010 World Championships mean that drivers such as Marco Ardigo, Arnaud Kozlinski, Gary Catt, and Davide [...]

CIK Drops Super KF For World Championships!

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

In a rather predictable move the CIK has ditched Super KF as it’s flagship class for the World Karting Championship, and replaced it with KF2.  An on-going row between the big kart manufacturers and the CIK has seen mass boycotting of major events like the European Championship and the World Cup in favour of competing in the WSK [...]

Bercy is Back!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

HRT F1 driver Karun Chandhok has revealed on his Twitter page that Philippe Streiffe wants to bring back the world famous karting event! The event was made famous in 1993 when Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost duelled it out in 100cc karts. The event takes place indoors and hosts a variety of professional kart and car drivers and [...]

Is there life in the old dog? We see if Formula TKM has still got it!

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

The TKM Karting class has existed for 20 years and produced an F1 World Champion. Can it relive it’s glory days?

Without doubt Formula TKM has been the most frustrating kart class to follow in the last few years. At several kart circuits in the UK it is a nice little antidote to the continual onslaught [...]

TKM Plea To MSA – Don’t Kill UK’s Longest Running Junior Class!

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Is the new MSA Intermediate Cadet Class destined to decimate the UK’s longest running junior class? Tal-Ko have written an open letter to the MSA asking them not to increase the entry age to Junior TKM.
An open letter from Tal-Ko to the Motor Sports Association – May 11, 2010
As the organisers of Formula TKM, [...]

Eliminating The Ultimate Overtaking Sin – The Half Move

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Eliminating the half-overtake and being more decisive can explode your racing potential!
What drives parents and teams mental more than anything else is when a driver pulls alongside another driver to overtake, and then backs out at the last moment. Then from being off the racing line they lose loads of time, take a whole lap [...]