The second day of testing at the La Conca International Circuit in Muro Leccese saw Mercedes F1 driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli take to the track. He was among the 323 participants registered for the Official Collective Tests organized by WSK Promotion ahead of the start of the racing season.

The 2026 International Karting season has already begun. Next week, with the first tests at the Muro Leccese track, engines will officially fire up for a new and exciting season of racing. The CRG colours will once again be represented across every category by the CRG Racing Team, the racing squad which — in the company’s 40th anniversary year — aims to further enrich its prestigious palmarès, which currently boasts 27 World titles and 25 FIA World Cups.

The season starts on January 21 - 25 with the opener of the WSK Super Master Series, which will be preceded by the Collective Test on January 16-17-18.
 

Within CRG’s headquarters, the guidelines for the first full season that the Lenovo Kalì Kart team will face in 2026 have been outlined. The official Kalì Kart team (a brand owned by CRG), which has been racing under the prestigious colors of its title sponsor Lenovo since last September, looks to 2026 with high ambitions, bringing to the track a broad and structured project focused particularly on youth categories.

After racking up victories at the opening round of the WSK Final Cup in Franciacorta, Kart Republic continued its winning streak over the next two weeks. First at the major international IAME brand cup event, the IWF in Valencia, with two triple wins in the main categories: X30 Senior and X30 Junior. Then, in Cremona for the second of three rounds of the WSK Final Cup, Zak Drummond won in OK and Wynn Godschalk in Mini U10. As ever, the high-performing KR chassis remain in contention for titles in six of the seven categories.