Saturday 15th May was a day filled with the majority of the Qualifying Heats of the 2021 FIA Karting European Championship - OK and Junior, and was marked by very changeable weather conditions. The circuit of Genk (BEL) was indeed the plaything of an unusually capricious weather situation and the forecast became very random. However Lindblad in OK and Eyckmans in OK-Junior were convincingly prominent.

On Friday 14 May, 174 drivers from 42 countries took part in the Qualifying Practice for the first of the four 2021 FIA Karting European Championship - OK and Junior - events at the Genk circuit (BEL). The changing weather situation played a role in the overall standings, although the track remained dry apart from a short shower in the second timed OK session. Singapore's Askay Bohra took the Junior pole position and the American Ugo Ugochukwu took the top class.

The circuit of Genk, the “Home of Champions”, will launch the FIA Karting European Championship - OK & Junior from 13th to 16th May 2021. 190 drivers have registered for this grand opening event and the trend towards a younger OK category continues.

The circuit of Genk, the “Home of Champions”, will launch the FIA Karting European Championship - OK & Junior from 13th to 16th May 2021. 190 drivers have registered for this grand opening event and the trend towards a younger OK category continues.

The first round of the European Karting Championship for the OK and OK Junior direct drive classes will take place this weekend at the Genk circuit, in Belgium. The FIA European Championship is made of 4 appointments: after the Belgian opening race, we will head to Essay in France, then Sarno (Italy) and the last race is scheduled in July on the Spanish track of Zuera.

The organisation of the Champions of the Future by RGMMC in Belgium has certainly marked an important turning point in the 2021 sporting season. The first international competition of the year to leave Italian territory was accompanied by the discovery of the MG Tyres destined to equip all FIA Karting events, starting with the opener of the OK and Junior European Championship on the same circuit in less than two weeks. The harshness of the races at Genk did not always allow the Parolin Motorsport drivers to show the competitiveness of their equipment, but James Wharton's comeback in the OK Prefinal and the 7th and 8th Final places for Rashid Al Dhaheri and Enzo Deligny in OK-Junior were a testament to the level of performance of the Parolin chassis, equipped with TM Racing engines.

The circuit of Genk (BEL), the "Home of Champions", will launch the FIA Karting European Championship - OK & Junior from 13th to 16th May 2021. 190 drivers have registered for this grand opening event and the trend towards a younger OK category continues.

The 2021 season opened in Genk with enormous fields in the OK Junior and OK categories. All of today’s stars of karting showed their presence at the Belgian track, giving a glimpse of possible future champions of karting and beyond!

The Tony Kart Racing Team hits the top 3, with three drivers, in the OK and OKJ category’s finals of the first round of the Champions of the Future. Tuukka Taponen and Joseph Turney are 2^nd and 3^rd positions respectively in the "major" class, Harley Keeble is 2^nd place in the Junior.

The 1^st round of the Champions of the Future, the race organized by the promoter RGMMC on the Genk track (Belgium) is over. This event is made to allow all teams and drivers to get ready for the 1^st round of the European Championship of the OK and OKJ classes, which will take place right over there from 13^th to 16^th May. All the teams carried out an intense working program, especially in order to discover MG tires for the first time, after the FIA ​​made their use official in all European Championship and World Championship races.

Champions of the Future, held from 29th April to 2nd May 2021, brought some notable changes to the competition two weeks before the start of the FIA Karting European Championship - OK and Junior.

The Kosmic Kart Racing Department attends in the first round of the Champions of the Future in Belgium. Luigi Coluccio, their official driver, gets the access to the top 10 in OK while Freddie Slater, with the Kosmic Kart materials, wins the OKJ class.

This last weekend of October, the international karting community has shifted its focus towards one much-awaited event: the final round of Champions of the Future at the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao! The best teams and drivers competing in OK and Junior classes are expected in Portugal to give the new series by RGMMC the epic Final it deserves!  

This last weekend of October, the international karting community has shifted its focus towards one much-awaited event: the final round of Champions of the Future at the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao! The best teams and drivers competing in OK and Junior classes are expected in Portugal to give the new series by RGMMC the epic Final it deserves!  

This last weekend of October, the international karting community has shifted its focus towards one much-awaited event: the final round of Champions of the Future at the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao! The best teams and drivers competing in OK and Junior classes are expected in Portugal to give the new series by RGMMC the epic Final it deserves!  

This weekend the OK and OK-Junior classes will race in Genk, Belgium, where it is scheduled the first round of the Champions of the Future Series. This appointment has an important value for these 2 direct drive categories in relation to the European Championship, as it is exactly here where they will both compete again in the 1^st round of the continental Championship on the 16^th of May.

Two weeks after his performance in KZ2 at the WSK Euro Series, James Wharton returned to the Lonato circuit, as well as to his OK kart, in order to prepare for the upcoming European events. The last round of the WSK Super Master Series allowed the Australian to demonstrate his fighting spirit in a difficult context and his 24-place improvement from Qualifying to the Final did not go unnoticed.

The enthusiasm shared by Brazilians for motor racing in all its forms for decades will be rewarded in 2021 by the organisation of an FIA Karting World Championship for the first time at the Speed Park International Karting Circuit in Birigüi, in the state of São Paulo.

The enthusiasm shared by Brazilians for motor racing in all its forms for decades will be rewarded in 2021 by the organisation of an FIA Karting World Championship for the first time at the Speed Park International Karting Circuit in Birigüi, in the state of São Paulo. 

FIA International Karting Commission President Felipe Massa looks back on a successful year for the discipline last year, despite the pandemic, and explains why there’s a huge amount to be excited about in 2021.