Vroom Karting Magazine

28/07/2025

28 July 2025 - The issue of pressure on Mercedes’ young talent was quickly brushed aside—only to become dramatically relevant again at the first, completely normal, difficulties faced by the rookie. Social media and increasingly superficial analyses of complex realities play a key role. (ls)

24/07/2025

24 July 2025 - We met the French driver a few days after his second consecutive European title. His passion for shifter karting is genuine, and his dedication to the sport is total: the current season is his main focus, with a very clear goal set for October… (fm)

22/07/2025

22 July 2025 - Watching the Final of the most technically prestigious event on the FIA calendar with just 15 drivers on the grid is cause for reflection, especially when other categories are setting entry records nearly every weekend. Let's try to understand what's happening in karting and what scen...

21/07/2025

21 July 2025 - In Mülsen, tension remained high until the very end in the final act of the KZ European Championship, which featured only a handful of drivers beyond those actually in contention for the title (just 15 on the grid). Mattéo Spirgel’s victory in the Final, combined with the unexpect...

18/07/2025

The approach to driver development has also changed. Verstappen made a direct jump from F3 to F1 after just one season, practically without any test mileage in a modern F1 car. Antonelli, on the other hand, although he signed very young with Mercedes, had more time to grow: he completed three full seasons in junior formulas and accumulated a huge amount of test mileage, both with intermediate single-seaters and with F1 cars.
In short, between Max’s era and Kimi’s, there’s been a shift in awareness: today, there’s a greater tendency to protect young drivers, to guide them with more structured programs, even if the pressure to arrive early remains high. Early talent has always existed, but now there’s an effort to nurture it with more balance. (G.Minardi)

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17/07/2025

17 July 2025 - These days mark ten years since the passing of a driver who left behind a heartrending memory for many reasons. We prefer to remember him with an interview he gave to Vroom in March 2010, at a time when he was pursuing his dream—right in the middle between karting and that long-drea...

16/07/2025

16 July 2025 - Among the unknowns heading into the event is not only the Mülsen circuit — appearing for the first time on a FIA calendar — but also the mid-season tyre supplier change, which could lead to a few surprises, even though the list of title contenders remains relatively limited.

15/07/2025

15 July 2025 - The age of 15 has become a crucial threshold in the climb toward top-level motorsport: as soon as you turn 15, you move into cars, often regardless of the context. Although this practice is widely criticized, it has become a custom that is hard to avoid when you have a medium-term pro...

07/07/2025

07 July 2025 - We visited the Gunskirchen facilities, where Rotax MAX Evo engines are born and where the Austrian company, subsidiary of BRP has made history – a history in which karting is just the tip of the iceberg. (fm)

03/07/2025

03 July 2025 - There is a small island within the Mississippi River in Illinois called Rock Island. It gives its name to one of the most iconic street kart races in the United States and, over its first 30 years, has seen drivers of every level and reputation take to the track. In less than two mont...

02/07/2025

With the first half of the four-round series completed just a few weeks ago in the Czech Republic, the third edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy played out over the weekend in Belgium at the famous Karting Genk ‘Home of Champions’ circuit in the Limburg province.

ROTAX Karting

02 July 2025 - With the first half of the four-round series completed just a few weeks ago in the Czech Republic, the third edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy played out over the weekend in Belgium at the famous Karting Genk ‘Home of Champions’ circuit in the Limburg province.

01/07/2025

The KF experience officially ended around10 years ago (at the end of 2015) and was replaced by an engine that is moresimple and closer to the origins of the non-shfiter categories (hence the OKdenomination, an acronym for Original Kart) to give new impetus to what was theTop Class of karting only to then, inexorably, fall into decline. The fundamental problem of KF (2007/2015) was of a troubled beginning, due totechnical problems definitively resolved only at the moment in which this regulatory cycle came to a close. Among the problems, in the first place, the centrifugal clutch, visibly undersized and with unjustifiably expensivecompared to the frequency of its replacement, which gave enormous problems. Itwas a one-piece expansion-type with 3 friction pads: a solution to be discarded, given the excellent efficiency of the Horstman-type disc clutches successfully used in the 100 Junior. Another problem was wiring and cabling,also extremely expensive, delicate and often the cause of missed starts at most inappropriate times. In KF2, equipped with a exhaust throttle valve, the functioning of the valve was often a source of problems on some engines due to the manufacturers’ inexperience in this delicate sector, with the incorrect positioning of the vacuum intake in the crankcase and problems of locking ofthe guillotine both for design errors and for an excessive quantity of lubricant used on single-speed engines equipped with a cast iron cylinder liner, someone even missing the angle of the guillotine to the exhaust pipe. Allthese factors led drivers to opt for and choose other categories, especially atthe national level: after a timid beginning, the KF disappeared from the minorraces and was replaced by the single-brand trophies. The CIK FIA thus decided totake what good there was in KF, eliminating at the same time the most complicated solutions and harbingers of problems, ten years later we can saythat was a successful idea: we now have a top Class, where drivers don't stay long enough, but that’s another story..