In almost all national markets, the 2026 karting season is already getting underway. It has also had an international prologue with the first WSK meetings, before entering the heart of the season with the FIA Karting championships.

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.

Already on the podium of the FIA Karting World Championship in Kristianstad in OK, Lev Krutolohov repeated this feat at the opening of the WSK Final Cup in Franciacorta. A week later, Energy Corse chassis were once again in the spotlight in a different context, the IAME Warriors Final in Valencia. Thanks to fruitful collaborations with the Xcel Motorsport and Valier Motorsport teams, top-level performances rewarded the work done and the competitiveness of the equipment.

Following their success in the FIA Karting European Championships and WSK, Sodi chassis have just been crowned Champions of the Future Shifter in both the KZ and KZ2 categories. With one week to go before the World Championship, Senna Van Walstijn made a strong impression in KZ against tough competition on the Italian circuit of Franciacorta, winning the overall series classification ahead of his team-mate Jean Nomblot.

On the occasion of the fourth round of the WSK Super Master Series, the Tony Kart Racer 401 T chassis wins the final of the OKJ category with Ilie Tristan Crisan and comes close to the podium in OK class with Jindřich Pešl.

The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team is delighted to announce its Junior Programme line-up for 2025. This year, the programme expands to include twelve talented young drivers, competing across various categories from karting to FIA Formula 3.

At Franciacorta, on the Italian circuit that will host the FIA Karting World Championship in October, the fourth and penultimate round of the WSK Super Master Series featured an incredible field of 90 drivers in a single category, bringing together the best KZ and KZ2 specialists, as well as all the major international teams.

Starting from the next round of the WSK Super Master Series at the Franciacorta Karting Track, a new and exclusive award will be given for the Pole Position in the WSK Promotion events.

Noah Wolfe will benefit from continued valuable support from VAR by Birel in his quest for honours in a multitude of kart championships around Europe next year.

In the last few days, Kalì Kart has confirmed the extension of the agreement with the three Zvarich brothers also for the 2025 season. Max, Marat and Mark, therefore, after the first contact with karting in Italy in the final part of the last season, have confirmed their commitment with the Factory team of the CRG Group, with the aim of capitalizing on all the experience gained in the Iame and Rotax Championships in Asia and, above all, the positive experience gained in the end-of-season events last year in Italy, when they made their debut in the WSK meetings and in the Italian Karting Championship.

Iron Dames, the trailblazing all-female racing project, proudly announces its expanded 2025 programme, featuring an unprecedented line-up of 16 drivers competing across the globe. This milestone marks a significant evolution of the Iron Dames initiative, highlighting a reinforced commitment to nurturing talent, promoting diversity, and setting new standards of professionalism in motorsport.
 

What an incredible start to the 2025 season for the KR chassis! At the first major international event of the year in Europe, the Italian brand won in all categories on the La Conca circuit, at the opening event of the WSK Super Master Series: Mini U10, Mini 60, OK-N Junior, OK-Junior, OK and KZ2. The new CIK-FIA homologation cycle couldn't have got off to a better start for Kart Republic.

A new piece of the Kalì Kart drivers line up was made official in the last few days with the signing of Ayrton Tonna. The Maltese driver, born in July 2014, will be racing in the MINI Gr3 category, taking part in the main WSK races and the Italian ACI Championship.

Kalì Kart is pleased to announce the agreement with Colbe Pattison who will join the official team for the 2025 season in the MINI category. Colbe, better known as CJ, was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on March 31, 2014 and is among the most promising drivers of the English school.

Season 2025 by WSK Promotion will kick off from the La Conca circuit with official collective testing from January 15th to 18th and the opening round of the WSK Super Master Series.

Welsh karting sensation Cameron Nelson demonstrated his exceptional racing prowess on Sunday by securing a commanding victory in the BNL Golden Trophy at Circuit Genk. The 14-year-old from Pontyclun, representing Dan Holland Racing, dominated the final race with an impressive 8.7-second margin, marking a perfect conclusion to his remarkable season.

Some novelties were added to the WSK Promotion 2025 Karting calendar.

WSK Promotion announces the calendar of the WSK and Rotax events for season 2025 (*Pending confirmation by ASN). The WSK 2025 events: WSK Winter Test, WSK Super Master Series in 5 rounds, the brand new WSK World Challenge Europe in two rounds and the WSK Final Cup in 3 rounds. The Rotax 2025 karting events: RMC Winter Series in 2 rounds, RMC Euro Trophy in 4 rounds.

Williams Racing is thrilled to announce that Dutch karting talent Dean Hoogendoorn will be joining the team’s Driver Academy for 2024 onwards.

In the last few weeks, CRG has developed a market research using all its social platforms and some sharing channels with the dealer network. The objective of the interview was to define the characteristics that, according to enthusiasts, a Racing Kart should have, therefore created for national and international racing.

In the last few days, the Kalì Kart Racing Team has formalized a double competitive program for Simone Bianco in the second part of the season. Together with his commitment in the KZ2 class, a category in which he had his debut this year to gain experience in the WSK races and in the Italian Championship, the Lombard driver, in fact, will also take part in an OK program with the aim of attending the FIA​​World Championship in England.
 

The consolidation process within the Tinini Group continues for the Kalì Kart Racing Team, which took part in the 2nd Round of the Italian Championship with two new drivers in OKN Junior (Giulio Miranda and Francesco Montoneri), but above all always with greater ambitions.

On Saturday 2nd March, Bogdan Cosma Cristofor became the new WSK Super Master Series Champion in OK-N Junior. The young Romanian hopeful has once again achieved the objective he set himself. After three consecutive podium finishes, including two victories, in the first three rounds of the prestigious WSK Promotion series, the Forza Racing driver arrived in Sarno for the final round with a good lead, and he managed to clinch the title without a hitch.

The first race of the season for the Tony Kart Racing Team was at South Garda Karting for the first round of the WSK Super Master Series, with their official driver Sebastiano Pavan achieving the podium finish in the OK category. Furthermore, first place was also achieved for the Rookie chassis in the MINI Gr.3 U10 class.

With 33 confirmed drivers, the official CRG Team promises to be one of the biggest and most competitive for the 2024 international karting season. The CRG Racing Team, which as announced last December, will be coordinated from a technical and organizational point of view by Natalia Balbo and Brandon Nilsson, will be able to count on a mix of experienced drivers and ambitious young ones in all categories.

MyLaps will be on the track in the first events of the season in Lonato, Cremona and Franciacorta to provide transponders for those who do not already have one.