Birel ART has finished the 2018 FIA Karting season in style. At the end of an event perfectly mastered by the Racing Team of the Italian brand, Luigi Coluccio climbed on to the third step of the podium of the OK World Championship organised at Kristianstad (Sweden). Despite changeable weather during the weekend, especially during Qualifying, the Birel ART equipment proved particularly competitive regardless of the grip conditions. This sporting, technical and logistic dynamism heralds a radiant future for the whole Birel ART group.

The OK 2018 Karting World Championship in Kristianstad was clearly one of the big goals of the season for the Rosberg Racing team. With the technical partnership and know-how of Petronas and Kart Republic, Lorenzo Travisanutto became the new FIA Karting World Champion after a weekend he totally dominated: pole position with the absolute best lap of the meeting, leader at the end of the qualifying heats and victory in the final after a crazy race, where the Italian took the best two laps of the finish!

Two fine Champions were crowned at Kristianstad after three days of intense clashes on the Åsum Ring as part of the Kart Grand Prix of Sweden. On Sunday, in bright sunshine, the last Qualifying Heats revealed the list of 34 Finalists in the two categories in the running, before the Finals delivered their verdict in front of a large audience. Victor Bernier (FRA) convincingly won the FIA ​​Karting World Championship - Junior, while Lorenzo Travisanutto (ITA) got the better of Hannes Janker (DEU) two laps from the finish of the FIA ​​Karting World Championship - OK.

Over a 200 drivers are in Sweden to take part in the CIK FIA ​​Karting World Championships in OK and OK Junior. Follow live all the action at the 1221 m long, the layout of the Åsum Ring at Kristianstad. On sunday you will see the last heats and the big finals.

Immediately after Qualifying Practice on a dry track, it rained late on the Friday of the Kart Grand Prix of Sweden. The Qualifying Heats, intended to select the 34 finalists of the FIA ​​Karting World Championships - OK and Junior, which take place this weekend on the Kristianstad circuit (SWE), have been disrupted by several showers until late Saturday afternoon. Barnard, Askey and Beganovic took a slight advantage over their Junior category opponents. Travisanutto kept his lead in OK against Janker.

Over a 200 drivers are in Sweden to take part in the CIK FIA ​​Karting World Championships in OK and OK Junior. Follow live all the action at the 1221 m long, the layout of the Åsum Ring at Kristianstad.

This weekend the Kristianstad track hosts the FIA ​​Karting World Championships - OK and OK-Junior as part of the Swedish Kart Grand Prix. Enjoying significant entry, the Competition began on Friday, 21st September in the afternoon, with the Qualifying Practices which are of paramount importance in this Competition with nearly 220 Drivers. Gabriele Mini’ - Junior - and Lorenzo Travisanutto - OK - took pole after four sessions in each category.

It’s that moment of the year for Leonardo Marseglia, it’s time for the CIK-FIA World Championship at the Åsum Ring in Kristianstad, Sweden.

Marcus Amand emerged victorious in the Rotax Grand Final Mini Max in Portugal last year. To take part in the 2018 event in Brazil, this time in the Junior category, he had to win the Rotax Max Challenge France. The 12-year-old Franco-Finn did so in style in Laval just before going to Sweden where the CIK/FIA Junior World Championship will take place at the end of this week.

Edition 2018 of the OK and OKJ World Championship is scheduled for this week from September 20th to 23rd in Kristianstad. The drivers of CRG Racing team and partner teams are ready to run a weekend as the protagonists in both categories.

The third edition of the FIA ​​Karting Endurance Championship will take place during the 24 Hours Karting organised at the Le Mans International Karting Circuit by the ACO on 29th and 30th September 2018. This Competition confirms the ascendance of OK engines in endurance with 13 teams committed to the GP1 category out of the 32 participants entered to date.

The Kosmic Racing Department’s drivers will be engaged from the 20-23 September on the Kristianstad Swedish circuit, on the occasion of the World Championship reserved to the single speed OK and OKJ categories

During the weekend of 20-23 September, the Tony Kart Racing Team’s drivers will be engaged in the World Championship for OK and OKJ classes on the Kristianstad circuit (Sweden).

Thanks to perfect organisation, the major world karting event in Genk in Belgium kept all its sporting promises, spectacular and popular, with several thousand spectators at this remarkable event. But there are no big meetings without strong stakeholders. Among them, the manufacturer LeCont made its contribution to the event.

At only 13 years old, the young Moroccan driver Suleiman Zanfari has raised the image of the African continent in international karting competition. On the podium in Italy, he finished 7th in the Karting Academy Trophy, the challenge for the young talents throughout the world, organised by the FIA. Suleiman carries the hopes of Morocco and those of all the youth of Africa in motorsport.

CIK-FIA President Felipe Massa is keeping his promise to be as active as possible on the ground. He attended the FIA ​​Karting World Championship - KZ at Genk (BEL) and will travel to Sweden soon for the OK and OK-Junior categories. Always very available to the public, he also takes the opportunity to conduct many discussions with members of the international karting community, Drivers, professionals, organisers and officials.

The KZ World Championship in Belgium did not end up with a victory for CRG as happened in the past three years, but performances have been once again excellent, which confirmed the great quality of the CRG-TM pairing and the very high level of all drivers of the Racing Team and partner teams. The comment of Fabian Federer, Paolo De Conto, Pedro Hiltbrand, Gaetano Di Mauro and Glenn Keyaert.

The third season for the new direct drive kart categories confirms the accuracy of their technical formula with a steady increase in entries since their introduction in 2016. This year, the FIA ​​Karting World Championships - OK and Junior exceed the 200 entries for the Competition that will take place in Sweden, at Kristianstad from 20th to 23rd September 2018.

The Kosmic Racing Department repeats the world success obtained in 2015 in the “Senior” category for direct-drive karts.

A legendary recovery in the International Super Cup KZ2 for Riccardo Longhi, who set many fastest laps during the meeting, and especially a place on the front row of the Final of the KZ World Championship for Marijn Kremers! The Birel ART chassis is one of the current benchmarks for the gearbox categories in the world of karting. But motorsport is sometimes ruthless and regrettable circumstances deprived the Birel ART-TM karts of the result that the whole team deserved.