Brits target success at FIA Karting World Championships

The celebrated FIA World Karting Championship involves the UK for simply the second time in additional than 50 years this weekend with the highest skills from proper across the globe battling it out to win the game’s final titles on the PF Worldwide circuit in Lincolnshire. 

No fewer than 262 drivers from 59 nations are on the packed entry lists with three prized World Championship titles on provide: OK; OK-Junior and the brand new OK-N class which makes its debut in 2024 on the World Championships for the primary time the place drivers will race within the OKN World Cup. 

The premier OK class is for drivers aged 14 and over, all racing a CIK-FIA homologated chassis propelled by 125cc engines revving to a most of 16,000rpm. It represents the head of competitors for direct-drive karts and options the very best younger hopefuls racing earlier than many transfer to single-seaters with desires of constructing all of it the way in which to F1. Proving the purpose, Lando Norris is a previous winner. 

Amongst this yr’s favourites are three former World Champions – Spanish driver Pedro Hiltbrand Aguilar, Brazilian front-runner Matheus Morgatto and Belgian rising star Dries Van Langendonck (Junior) – in addition to the newly topped European Champion, Joe Turney, one in all 25 British racers concentrating on well-known success on residence floor. 

Different locals to look at embody teen Lewis Wherrell, Zac Drummond from Scotland, former BKC and European Rotax champion Ethan Jeff-Corridor plus Rotax GP Plate winner Matthew Higgins. Daniel Guinchard is likely one of the extra acquainted names on this weekend’s entry listing – Daniel is a former British Kart Champion who briefly stepped up into the single-seater highlight contesting the ROKiT British F4 Championship. 

Geared toward 12-14-year-olds the OK-Junior class is filled with even youthful expertise in barely detuned OK karts. Having completed second to Van Langendonck final yr Spanish teenager Christian Costoya might be among the many pacesetters.  

As soon as once more there may be loads of British curiosity, too. Although simply 12-years-old, Noah Baglin is already making a reputation for himself as is Kenzo Craigie, a Mercedes Junior Driver.  

Different younger hopefuls for residence followers to observe among the many 112 entrants on this benchmark class are Henry Area, Scott Marsh, Harrison Mackie, Jacob Ashcroft, Jesse Phillips, Jorge Edgar, Kian Bernard, Skye Parker, Alfie Slater and former British Honda Cadet Champion Cole Denholm.  

Edgar is a Motorsport UK Junior OK entry on the FIA Motorsport Video games and Bernard was a Motorsport UK FIA Academy Driver 2024, Parker represents the rising feminine participation in karting whereas Slater is the youthful brother of Italian F4 Champion-elect Freddie Slater. Freddie received this title in 2020. 

OK-N karts are a brand new idea, derived from the premier OK class, to develop the karting base through Nationwide Championships. World Championship locations have been restricted to simply 29 contributors and favour nations which have already organised OK-N occasions, notably nations that aren’t normally represented equivalent to Madagascar, Cyprus, South Korea, Uruguay and Uzbekistan. Offering native curiosity, invites have been prolonged to a pair of frontrunners from the British Kart Championship: Harrison Whitikam and Thomas-Minh Spearing. 

After Free Follow classes on Thursday and Friday morning, Qualifying Heats start on Friday afternoon and run all through Saturday within the build-up to a trio of dramatic FIA World Karting Championship Finals on Sunday afternoon. 

The occasion is organised by the Trent Valley Kart Membership and, as is the case in all FIA karting competitions, the gas being utilized by all these racing at PF Worldwide is a 100 per renewable product constituted of second-generation organic parts and artificial gas produced by P1 Racing Fuels. So an epic weekend of cleanly fought kart racing is totally assured!