The grand finale of the WSK Final Cup, Round 3 in Lonato
The grand finale of the WSK Final Cup, Round 3 in Lonato

The grand finale of the WSK Final Cup,...

The grand finale of the WSK Final Cup, Round 3 in Lonato

The grand finale of the WSK Final Cup, Round 3 in Lonato

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A total of 400 drivers expected in Lonato for the grand finale of the WSK Final Cup
A total of 400 drivers expected in Lonato for the grand finale of the WSK Final Cup

A total of 400 drivers expected in...

A total of 400 drivers expected in Lonato for the grand finale of the WSK Final Cup

A total of 400 drivers expected in Lonato for the grand finale of the WSK Final Cup

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WSK Final Cup: the first winners of the Vulcain watches

WSK Final Cup: the first winners of the...

WSK Final Cup: the first winners of the Vulcain watches

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Kart Republic chassis wins in WSK at...

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Birelart Racing and Bertuca continue their dominance at the WSK Final Cup in Cremona
Birelart Racing and Bertuca continue their dominance at the WSK Final Cup in Cremona

Birelart Racing and Bertuca continue...

Birelart Racing and Bertuca continue their dominance at the WSK Final Cup in Cremona

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Lenovo Kalì Kart Team one step away from the podium in Cremona

Lenovo Kalì Kart Team one step away from...

Lenovo Kalì Kart Team one step away from the podium in Cremona

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Modena Kart Racing Team secures another podium finish in Cremona
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Modena Kart Racing Team secures another...

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The second round of the WSK Final Cup...

The second round of the WSK Final Cup has been spectacular at the Cremona Circuit

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Livestream PreFinals and Finals of the 2025 WSK Final Cup Round 2 at the Cremona Circuit

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Livestream PreFinals and Finals of the 2025 WSK Final Cup Round 2 at the Cremona Circuit

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WSK Final Cup in Cremona: qualifying heats done, all is set for the final stages

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The qualifying heats of the WSK Final Cup named the first candidates to the win in Cremona

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James Wharton - A race full of lessons learned

James Wharton - A race full of lessons learned Read more

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 2021 Champions of the WSK Super Master Series

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The WSK Super Master Series 2021 titles eventually went to the Dutch Marijn Kremers (BirelART Racing/BirelART-TM Racing) in KZ2, the Brazilian Rafael Camara (KR Motorsport/KR-Iame) in OK, United Arab Emirates’ Rashid Al Dhaheri (Parolin Motorsport/Parolin-TM Racing) in OKJ and the Dutch René Lammers (Baby Race/Parolin-Iame) in MINI. 

Livestream: Grand Finale of WSK Super Master in Lonato

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More than 300 drivers are expected to get on track for the closer of WSK Super Master Series next April 22 – 25, 2021 at the South Garda Karting circuit of Lonato. This event is going to be very high level due also to the stakes that are high as the 2021 titles for the categories MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2 are still to be decided.

The winners of the heats of WSK Super Master Series in Lonato

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Qualifying heats in Lonato named the main protagonists of the fourth and closing round of WSK Super Master Series in the four categories MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2. Prefinals and Finals on  Sunday, April 25th will enjoy live streaming coverage.

The WSK Super Master Series underway in Lonato

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Qualifying practice and the initial heats of the fourth and closing round of WSK Super Master Series have been run today with more than 310  drivers on track. Qualifying heats will continue on Saturday, April 24th, while the final stages with Live Streaming coverage will be on Sunday, April 25th for the four categories MINI, OKJ,OK and KZ2.

Results: Grand Finale of WSK Super Master in Lonato

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More than 300 drivers are expected to get on track for the closer of WSK Super Master Series next April 22 – 25, 2021 at the South Garda Karting circuit of Lonato. This event is going to be very high level due also to the stakes that are high as the 2021 titles for the categories MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2 are still to be decided.

Livetiming: Grand Finale of WSK Super Master in Lonato

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More than 300 drivers are expected to get on track for the closer of WSK Super Master Series next April 22 – 25, 2021 at the South Garda Karting circuit of Lonato. This event is going to be very high level due also to the stakes that are high as the 2021 titles for the categories MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2 are still to be decided.

CRG Karting: Final round of the WSK Master in Lonato

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The Grand Finale of WSK Super Master in Lonato

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More than 300 drivers will make it onto the track for the fourth and closing round of WSK Super Master Series at the South Garda Karting Circuit in Lonato. The fight for all the 2021 titles of MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2 is on thanks to the 153 points that are up for grabs in this round. 

Parolin back to winning ways in Lonato

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Two podiums for Vortex in the WSK Euro Series

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The OTK Kart Group engines, on the occasion of the first round of the championship at the South Garda Karting in Lonato, are close to victory and get the top-3 position twice (despite the rain) in the final races of the KZ2 and OKJ categories.

Kosmic almost reaches the podium in Lonato

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On the occasion of the first round of the WSK Euro Series, Luigi Coluccio, running with the Kosmic Kart Racing Department, is among the fastest drivers in the OK category and fights for the podium in the Sunday's final, under the rainy weather.

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The team proved to be competitive once again in the first round of the WSK Euro Series, but some problems affected the final results. A race which saw variable weather and some misfortunes did not allow all the drivers of the Leclerc by Lennox Racing team to achieve the excellent results that were within their reach. However, the CL chassis manufactured by Birel ART and powered by TM Racing once again showed its speed, in both dry and wet conditions, in all classes, from MINI to KZ2.

Birel ART Racing team: Another KZ2 victory and an excellent level of performance in Lonato

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The WSK Euro Series started this weekend on the Lonato circuit in a contrasting weather situation. After the sunshine of the first days, rain and coolness accompanied the Final stages. Birel ART Racing showed very good competitiveness in all categories. Kremers dominated KZ2 in all weather conditions, there was no shortage of good performances in OK, Macintyre was 5th in OK-Junior and Van Langendonck was 4th in Mini.

CRG secures podium finish in KZ2 with Jeremy Iglesias at the WSK Euro

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The weekend of the WSK Euro Series in Lonato has just ended and it has been characterized by the rain that heavily influenced the results of the final day on Sunday. Despite this, the Frenchman Jeremy Iglesias got an excellent second place in the final of the premier class, which represents the first podium for him with the CRG colours.

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Wet and hard-fought Finals at the opener of WSK Euro Series

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The victories of the first round of the series in Lonato went to the Brit Arvid Lindblad in OK, the Czech Jindrich Pesl in MINI, the Dutch Marijn Kremers in KZ2 and United Arab Emirates’ Rashid Al Dhaheri in OKJ.    

Livestream: WSK Euro Series Round 1 at Lonato

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The opening race of the WSK Euro Series announces to be quite spectacular with a lot of champions among the about 270 drivers ready to challenge each other from April 8th to 11th at the South Garda Karting circuit in categories MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ2.

All set for the final stages of the first round of WSK Euro Series in Lonato

All set for the final stages of the first round of WSK Euro Series in Lonato Read more

Qualifying heats ended in Lonato. The path has been long to select the finalists as it involved 42 races. The double Prefinals will begin at 10:40 on Sunday, April 11th while the Finals will be at 14:20 for OK, MINI, KZ2 and OKJ with live TV streaming.

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Good finals in Sarno at the opener of WSK Euro Series
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Good finals in Sarno at the opener of WSK Euro Series

The weekend of the opener of WSK Euro Series in Sarno at the International Circuit Napoli ended with an excellent spectacle on track after the Covid emergency. Despite the hot weather, competitiveness has been very high in all the categories KZ2, OK, OK-Junior and MINI with around 180 drivers on track from 32 different countries including those that won the WSK Super Master Series one week ago in Adria.

After the exciting qualifying heats, Prefinals and Finals in Sarno rewarded the strongest drivers of this opening race of WSK Euro Series, that will reach its conclusion on September 20th at the South Garda Karting circuit in Lonato.

 

Prefinals

The MINI drivers kicked off Prefinals of the closing day in Sarno to define the starting grid of the finals. The Japanese Kean Nakamura Berta (Team Driver Racing Kart/KR-Iame-Vega) confirmed his speed winning Prefinal-A, while Prefinal-B was won by the young Spaniard Christian Cotoya Sanabria (CRG-TM Racing-Vega), who was fourth at the end of heats.

Prefinal-A of OKJ was won by the Czech Igor Cepil (KR Motorsport/KR-Iame-Vega), while his teammate Brando Badoer slipped down to P5 after leading the pack in the heats and leading also the race in the initial laps.  The Finn Tuuka Taponen (Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) won Prefinal-B.

In KZ2, the victory of the Prefinal went to the Italian Riccardo Longhi (BirelArt Racing/BirelArt-TM Racing-Vega), who led the winner of Adria Simo Puhakka (Tony Kart racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) and the other BirelArt driver  Giuseppe Palomba. In OK, the Prefinal-A went to the Brit Oliver Gray (Leclerc by Lennox/BirelArt-TM Racing-LeCont), while the Finn Juho Michael Valtanen (Pantano Team/KR-Iame-LeCont) won Prefinal-B as the other protagonist, the Brit Joe Turney (Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex-LeCont), was forced to an early retirement due to a contact with Valtanen.

 

Finals

Longhi dominates KZ2. Riccardo Longhi (BirelArt Racing/BirelArt-TM Racing-Vega) won the KZ2 Final after doing the same in Prefinal. This was a nice win as the Italian led from lights to flag, when he crossed the finish line ahead of the French Adrien Renaudin (Sodikart/Sodikart-TM Racing-Vega), who installed himself in P2 in the initial laps. The other Italian of BirelArt, Giuseppe Palomba, rounded off the podium in P3. He was second at the start and then kept the third place all the way to the flag. The Finn Simo Puhakka (Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega) started from the front row, but lost several positions at the start and then recovered up to P4 ahead of the French Jeremy Iglesias (Formula K Racing Team/Fomula K-TM Racing-Vega) and the other BirelArt driver Alex Irlando.

Final KZ2: 1. Longhi; 2. Renaudin; 3. Palomba; 4. Puhakka; 5. Iglesias; 6. Irlando; 7. Camplese; 8. Gustafsson; 9. Nomblot; 10. Putyatin.

 

Gray successful in OK. After an early lead by the Finn Juho Michael Valtanen (Pantano Team/KR-Iame-LeCont), the British driver Oliver Gray (Leclerc By Lennox Racing/Birel Art-TM Racing-LeCont) got the lead of the race and kept it all the way to the flag. Behind him, the Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli (KR Motorsport/KR-Iame-LeCont) secured P2 in the closing stages, while the Finn Juho Michael Valtanen (Pantano Team/KR-Iame-LeCont) had to settle for P3. The Dutch Dilano Vant Hoff (Forza Racing/Exprit-TM Racing-LeCont) ended fourth leading the Brazilian Matheus Morgatto (Parolin Racing Kart/Parolin-TM Racing-LeCont) and the Brit Taylor Barnard (Rosberg Racing Academy/KR-Iame-LeCont).

Final OK: 1. Gray; 2. Antonelli; 3. Valtanen; 4. Vant Hoff; 5. Morgatto; 6. Barnard; 7. Coluccio; 8. Trulli; 9. Ten Brinke; 10. Marti.

 

Spina recovers to the win in OKJ. The Italian Alfio Andrea Spina (KR Motorsport/KR-Iame-Vega) managed to install himself on top at the beginning of the Final, after several comeback heats and also a retirement due to a contact. Once on top, Spina led a strong race and crossed the finish line ahead of his teammate from Czech Republic Igor Cepil and the Finn Tuuka Taponen (Tony Kart Racing Team/Tony Kart-Vortex-Vega). Brando Badoer (KR Motorsport/KR-Iame-Vega) managed to recover several positions and secured P4 in the closing stages from the Brit Freddie Slater (Ricky Flynn Motorsport/Kosmic-Vortex-Vega).

Final OKJ: 1. Spina; 2. Cepil; 3. Taponen; 4. Badoer; 5. Slater; 6. Lindblad; 7. Gubenko; 8. Tsolov; 9. Irfan; 10. Gowda.      

 

MINI speaks Japanese with Nakamura. The MINI Final lived on the duel between the Japanese Kean Nakamura Berta (Team Driver Racing Kart/KR-Iame-Vega) and the Russian Dmitry Matveev (Energy Corse/Energy-TM Racing-Vega), as the latter managed to take the lead early on, recovering several places over the weekend since he did not run qualifying practice. Nakamura managed to take the lead at the last lap though and won the race from Metveev. The third place went to the Pole Jan Przyrowsky (AV Racing/Parolin-TM Racing-Vega), who has held P2 for a long time. The French Guillaume Bouzar (Parolin Racing/Parolin-TM Racing-Vega) was among the front runners and closed the race in P4 leading the Dutch Thijs Keeren (Pantano Team/KR-Iame-Vega). The Spanish driver Christian Cotoya Sanabria (CRG-TM Racing-Vega) went off early on after starting from the front row.

Final MINI: 1. Nakamura; 2. Matveev; 3. Przyrowsky; 4. Bouzar; 5. Keeren; 6. Monza; 7. Saeter; 8. Kastelic; 9. Outran; 10. Sorensen.

 

The next round is due on September 14-20th at the South Garda Karting in Lonato. The second and third round of WSK Euro Series will award the titles in the four categories. The OK and OKJ races will be valid for the Italian Championship title.

Complete results are available at www.wskarting.it

 

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