35 Years and Counting for the WRKC Oktoberfest Grand Prix
There aren’t too many karting races these days that can boast 35 years of pure history, but that is exactly what the Waterloo Regional Kart Club can say about their Oktoberfest Grand Prix which hits...
View ArticleCoupe de Montreal Sends Shifter Champions to Italy!
This past weekend at Circuit ICAR in Mirabel, Quebec the organizers of the revived Coupe de Montreal crowned their 2016 class of champions following the sixth and final round of the championship. It...
View ArticleSilly Season: MacDermind Joins PSL Karting; Curran Moves to Koene USA
The karting silly season is upon us! With the majority of races in Canada complete, drivers are making plans for the 2017 season already. Two big moves have been confirmed this week as Eastern Canadian...
View ArticleCanadian Champion Scott Campbell Starts a Karting Team
Scott Campbell is pleased to announce that starting in 2017 he will be starting a karting team. After a long career of karting himself with many championships including a World Record 12 times to the...
View ArticleMaxSpeed Group Questions and Answers on 2017 Rotax Products
The kart racing industry has been asking, and Rotax has listened. Inside the head office of Rotax, months of research, development and refinement to the very process we know as ‘engine manufacturing’...
View ArticleIntroducing Team Canada for the 2016 Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals
It’s October and that means the 2016 Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals is less than a month away. The event has been bumped forward a few weeks from its usual date and returns to country of Italy,...
View ArticleSignoretti Beyond Excited to Compete in First Grand Finals
Finding out in a rather unusual way that he qualified for the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals turned out to be a major sigh of relief for North York, Ontario’s Marco Signoretti. Competing in the...
View ArticleDi Leo Aiming for More Success in Eighth Grand Finals Appearance
As a back-to-back Canadian National Champion in Rotax Senior, Marco Di Leo has proved at 29 years old he is still at the top of his karting game even when he’s competing against drivers often more than...
View ArticleAndres De Alba Honoured to be Representing Team Canada in Italy
Making the switch from privateer to the powerhouse Team PSL Karting in 2016 paid off in big dividends for Quebec City’s Andres De Alba as the Rotax Junior driver earned multiple victories throughout...
View ArticleWRKC Champions Carrying Momentum to Oktoberfest GP
Winning a championship at the Waterloo Regional Kart Club is a pretty big deal, but adding a prestigious WRKC Oktoberfest Grand Prix title as well is a near perfect season for any racer in...
View ArticleRecord Twelfth Rotax Grand Finals Appearance On Tap for Scott Campbell
Having only one race this year to qualify for the Rotax Grand Finals and to extend his record number of appearances, the ASN Canadian National Karting Championships were a little more nerve-wracking...
View ArticleRacing with Autism Completes 3393KM in Less Than 48 Hours!
In 2017, Austin Riley will embark on a tour throughout the United Kingdom. In anticipation of their next venture, the Riley and his Racing with Autism team just completed a monstrous 3393KM mission in...
View ArticleSurprise Invitation Sends Claman-DeMelo to Rotax Grand Finals
In 2016, Montreal’s Zachary Claman-DeMelo made the jump from karts, past the entry-level junior formula cars and right to Indy Lights, a feeder series for Indycar. He even tested an Indycar for...
View ArticleKingsley Heading to Grand Finals for Fourth Straight Year
A dominant force in Rotax DD2 since he joined the category in 2014, Jeff Kingsley has been a staple on Team Canada at the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals and this coming week he will make his fourth...
View ArticleDTM Star Robert Wickens Confirmed for US Open of Las Vegas!
Entries continue to roll in for the US Open championship finale. Mercedes DTM driver Robert Wickens has confirmed his attendance at the US Open of Las Vegas for the second year in a row, joining the...
View ArticleUnique Opportunity for Samuel Lupien at Rotax Grand Finals
He was all set to move up to the Senior division for the season when Samuel Lupien got the phone call in early April. Following his second place finish at the US Open of Las Vegas late last season, he...
View ArticleKashak Using Last Years Rotax Grand Finals Experience as Motivation
Heading back to the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals for a second straight year, Courtice, Ontario’s Tyler Kashak is motivated to build on his seventh place effort. Topping Team Canada’s effort a year...
View ArticleRitter Soaking Up Dream Season with Trip to Rotax Grand Finals
It is only his third season of competitive karting and his first in Rotax Senior, but that didn’t stop Kellen Ritter from making a name for himself in 2016. After two decent campaigns as a Junior he...
View ArticleSurreal Feeling for MacDermid in Qualifying for the RMCGF
It has been an impressive season for Ryan MacDermid from Brooklin, Ontario. The standout Rotax Junior driver has competed all across North America in 2016 and on four different occasions he found...
View ArticleBreaking: Paul Carvalho Withdraws from RMCGF
CKN is both sad and happy to report today that Rotax DD2 Masters driver Paul Carvalho has withdrawn from the upcoming Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in Sarno, Italy. The Eastern Canadian Karting...
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