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Kiwi ROK Cup Karters Get First Hit-Out In Italy This Weekend
Thursday, 8 October 2020, 5:22 pm | KartSport New Zealand
The two Kiwi karters who have travelled to Italy to contest this year’s ROK Cup Superfinal meeting at Lonato in 10 days’ time get their first hit-out at the South Garda Karting facility at the new ROK Cup Trophy meeting on Sunday. Vortex ROK DVS ... More >>
Kiwi ROK Cup Kartsport Series Run And Won – Despite Covid-19 Interruption
Monday, 24 August 2020, 4:10 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Class winners in the 2020 ROK Cup New Zealand series included Rianna O’Meara-Hunt (Wellington, #6 Vortex ROK DVS), Jacob Douglas (Christchurch, #69 Vortex ROK DVS Junior) and Zach Tucker (Christchurch, #33 Cadet ROK) * 2020 ROK Cup New Zealand ... More >>
Local Karters Leverage Track Advantage To Win Big In The Manawatu At The Weekend
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 11:59 am | KartSport New Zealand
More than 140 karters from all over New Zealand gathered at the KartSport Manawatu club’s Manawatu Toyota Raceway over the weekend for the annual ‘Championships’ round of the Manawatu & TRC Toyota-backed 60th anniversary WPKA Goldstar ... More >>
Entries Remain High As Karters Celebrate A WPKA Milestone In The Manawatu This Weekend
Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:42 am | KartSport New Zealand
With 145 entries received for the Manawatu & TRC Toyota-backed 60th anniversary WPKA Championships meeting, incorporating ROK Cup NZL round 3, in Palmerston North this weekend, karters from all over New Zealand are obviously still celebrating the ... More >>
Livestreaming Gives Kiwi Kartsport Racing A Global Reach
Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 12:42 pm | KartSport New Zealand
The decision to livestream the first major regional KartSport meeting to be held here in New Zealand since the Covid-19 Lockdown was lifted was more than vindicated by the interest shown in the racing at the third round of the 2019/20 WPKA Manawatu ... More >>
Cockerton & Hills Share Wins At Latest Kiwi Kartsport Sim Series Round
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 6:28 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Auckland driver Taylor Cockerton won the first race at the opening round of the new Tasman Karts-sponsored SIMSpeedTV-hosted KartSport New Zealand iKartSport Racing ‘Virtual Club Day’ at a virtual Philip Island in Australia on Tuesday evening ... More >>
Blincoe Comes Good To Claim Kiwi KartSport Sim Series’ Double
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 4:11 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Auckland karter Zach Blincoe won both races at the final round of the Liquidaction-sponsored SIMSpeedTV-hosted KartSport New Zealand iKartSport Racing ‘Virtual Club Day’ at a virtual Laguna Seca and Belle Isle circuits on Tuesday evening Teenage Auckland ... More >>
Lockdown's Silver Lining Set To Benefit Kart Clubs Once Restrictions Are Lifted
Friday, 24 April 2020, 5:46 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Five weeks of Level 4 COVID-19 Lockdown has provided KartSport New Zealand with a valuable opportunity to train and/or upskill a whole range of club officials on-line – effectively ‘future-proofing’ the sport when drivers are allowed back on ... More >>
Armstrong Motor Group Kartsport Nz 2020 National Sprint Championships Meeting Postponed
Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 7:50 am | KartSport New Zealand
“The KartSport New Zealand Executive and Management regret to inform you that the Armstrong Motor Group 2020 National Sprint Championships meeting planned to be held at KartSport Canterbury’s Carrs Rd Raceway, Halswell, Christchurch over the ... More >>
Van Den Berk & Tucker Get ROKCup NZL Campaigns Off To GP-winning Start In Wellington
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 4:08 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Karters Jamie van den Berk from the Hawke’s Bay, and Zach Tucker from Christchurch, got their 2020 ROK Cup NZL series campaigns off to the best possible start at the opening round of this year’s series in Wellington on Sunday. Not only did each ... More >>
NZ has a new Superkart champion - and it's an Aussie!
Monday, 23 December 2019, 11:17 am | KartSport New Zealand
Australian Jordan (Jordie) Ford is New Zealand’s new Superkart champion, the world-ranked racer from Melbourne claiming the crown at a rain-lashed 2019 NZ Superkarts titles meeting run in conjunction with the Manawatu Car Club’s Mitre 10 Mega Summer Series ... More >>
ROK Cup NZL set to expand in 2020
Wednesday, 18 December 2019, 4:44 pm | KartSport New Zealand
The Vortex engine-based ROK Cup New Zealand kart racing series is set to expand in 2020 with the Vortex ROK DVS Senior class joining the Vortex Mini ROK and Cadet ROK classes, on which the popular national series – which has been going now for ... More >>
Wins give talented Kiwi karter chance to compete in Italy
Tuesday, 10 December 2019, 11:03 am | KartSport New Zealand
Little did top Auckland karter Josh Richmond’s parents Nigel and Shelley realise what they were getting themselves into when – while on a family holiday on Australia’s Gold Coast – their then 11-year-old son had a go in a rental kart. “It was my ... More >>
Big grids for NZ Superkart title meeting at Manfeild
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 4:47 pm | KartSport New Zealand
The biggest grids in over 10 years will add real impact as Superkart drivers from all over the country contest KartSport New Zealand’s 2019 National Superkart titles as part of the opening round of the Manawatu Car Club’s Mitre 10 Mega Summer (motor ... More >>
Local clubbies claim 1st KartSport NZ Endurance title crown
Monday, 2 December 2019, 5:20 pm | KartSport New Zealand
If ever there was a ‘proof of concept’ result it was this one; where three KartSport Wellington club members, Tim Hobbs, Stirling Hughes (since 1993 no less!) and Augustin Gonzalez, took on the might of a number of more highly-rated teams, and won KartSport ... More >>
Weather plays a role at final Top Gear Top Half Series round
Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 9:35 am | KartSport New Zealand
Wet conditions added an extra challenge to the final round of the Top Gear Top Half kart racing series at the Kartsport Bay of Plenty club’s Visi-Line Raceway at Te Puke on Sunday. Competitors and crew members alike had to ensure that they had their ... More >>
Stars shine but surprises as well at KartSport Island titles
Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 8:24 am | KartSport New Zealand
Established stars like multi-time NZ champion Ryan Grant and fellow Aucklander Jason Lee, and Arron Black from Dunedin and William Exton from Blenheim, added to their respective title tallies at KartSport New Zealand’s annual Island Sprint Championships ... More >>
Top Kiwi female karter back to her best in Italy
Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 4:01 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Top Kiwi female karter Rianna O’Meara-Hunt has returned home to Wellington on a high after a breakthrough performance at this year’s ROK Cup Superfinal meeting in Italy a fortnight ago. Since moving to the Senior ranks, the recently turned 18-year-old ... More >>
Top KZ2 trio head Kiwi entry at Race of Stars
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 1:43 pm | KartSport New Zealand
Top KZ2 class drivers Matthew Payne, Mathew Kinsman and Ryan Wood head an eight-strong Kiwi contingent contesting the seventh annual Race of Stars international kart event at Pimpama on Queensland’s Gold Coast this week and weekend. The meeting is part ... More >>
Win for Douglas, podium place for Sharp at ROK Cup
Monday, 14 October 2019, 8:08 am | KartSport New Zealand
Young Kiwi karter Jacob Douglas has claimed a breakthrough Junior ROK class win and fellow Cantabrian Louis Sharp has finished on the podium in the Mini ROK class at this year’s ROK Cup Superfinal event in Italy. Douglas, 14, and Sharp, 12, were ... More >>
