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Karting and the ‘Stepping-Stone’ Dogma – Special Karting1 Feature

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The MSA describe karting to be ‘widely regarded as the first step on the motor racing ladder and is the starting point for many young aspiring racing drivers’. No less than 4 UK championships this year will be offering tests in race cars as prizes and various teams/championships around the world have integrated car programs. [...]

Michael Schumacher Tests KZ2 at Lonato

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

In what has become quite a regular occurrence for the 7x F1 WDC, Michael Schumacher recently attended a test day at Lonato to get some laps in before the F1 testing season begins where he joined the likes of Davide Forè and co. Fortunately someone was there to get some footage.

Schumacher is a karting regular

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Alonso: Karting Doesn’t Help with F1 Training!

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

For many years karting has enjoyed the mantle of being where many F1 drivers go to keep sharp, however a frustrated Alonso has hit out and stated that karting really doesn’t offer the training required for F1, likening it to Nadal training with a table tennis bat or Messi training with a racket instead of a ball.
He [...]

New App keeps your Setups & Track info

Friday, January 6th, 2012

TrakData is an amazing way to keep all your personal Kart Setup and Circuit information.
This new iPhone app includes a comprehensive setup section where you can store your chassis and motor setup data for each track and even sync the data with your laptop.
Tap for track information including track maps & timing strips, typical gearing [...]

Retrospective – The 2011 Karting Year by Karting1

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Karting is such a diverse sport, it’s almost impossible to coherently knit together the general trends throughout a year, but 2011 has seen interesting developments that demonstrate the future direction of the sport.
While single-make racing has been around for decades (Yamaha, TKM, Rotax etc…), 2011 witnessed the traditional Italian manufacturers investing more into this style [...]

Iztech Kart Seats Looking Forward to Meeting Everyone at Kartmania

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

From Iztech Kart Seats
Iztech Kart Seats will once again be at the amazing Kartmania show held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

We have some very special show offers for you as well as demonstrating our kart scales to show you how much difference getting your kart set up properly can benefit your racing.
Our special offers [...]

KZ1 Star Beitske Visser Talks to Karting1

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The rise of Beitske Visser has been nothing short of remarkable. Here’s a driver who only two years ago no one really knew much about. She had some notable success here and there, but in 2010 you started to here some rumblings of a great new driver hitting the KZ2 scene that was really exciting. [...]

Daniel Wheldon Memorial Race Organised

Monday, November 7th, 2011

A special kart endurance race in honour of Dan Wheldon has been arranged for the 5th December at Daytona Milton Keynes. The event will see drivers from across the realms of worldwide motorsport join together to remember their close friend and colleague. Members of the public will also be able to honour Dan, who [...]

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