Cristiano Morgado of Durban won the 2012 DD2 Master’s World Karting Championship in this weekend’s Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in the Algarve, Portugal.
Saturday’s success was the third World Championship title for Morgado, who became the first karter to score a hat-trick of championships in the 13th running of the Rotax series, the most competitive karting championships in the world.
Rotax Max Challenge Grand Final Team South Africa 2012
Portimao/Algarve, November 25, 2012
This was the last day of Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals without action on the track. After the registration of all drivers and scrutineering of their karts, it’s now time to the teams to work hard, granting that all is set for the first laps in the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve.
At the end of November the 2012 Rotax champions will compete in Portugal in the 13th Rotax Max Challenge Grand Final in Portugal. And South Africa has one of the best winning records of all in this series since its inauguration in 1999.
Think of the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals as the “Olympics” of international karting. The buzz generated by hosting over 250 drivers from over 60 countries, and their attendant pit crews in a karting village over a week of intense competition has to be experienced to be appreciated.
The International championship-winning Meritus Team Principal, Peter Thompson, confirms he will attend the South African Rotax finals on 6 and 7 October.
Meritus has entered into an agreement with South African World Champion Wesleigh Orr who will exclusively represent Meritus brand and interests in South Africa.
The fourth and final national round of the hard-fought South African Rotax Max Challenge SA karting championship will be played out at the Zwartkops International Kart Raceway this Friday and Saturday, on October 5 and 6, 2012.
And when the tyre-smoke has settled, four South African Champions will book their seats to the 13th Rotax Grand Finals, the annual World Championship event for the most competitive karting championship on the planet, being held this year in the Algarve coast of Portugal.
UK racing commentator Ken Walker will be commentating at the Rotax National Final on 6th October at Zwartkops. If you are competing please fill in the information sheet so that Ken knows who you are. Ken has commentated at every Rotax World Final as well as the Rotax Euro Chal…
The famous Sologne Karting circuit at Salbris in France is geared-up for this weekend’s fourth and final round of the 2012 ROTAX MAX EURO CHALLENGE as the battle for the European title in all four classes being contested goes down to the deciding edition of the series. This ye…
At the 2011 Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in Al Ain, U.E.A. last November, Ben Cooper, from the United Kingdom, won the title in the Rotax Max class while Pier-Luc Ouellette, from Canada, won the title in the Rotax DD2 class. Cooper secured his participation at the 2012 Grand Finals by winning the Rotax Max class at the Florida Winter Tour last winter in the U.S.A. For the rest of the season, he moved to Canada and raced the whole season in the Rotax DD2 class and battled against the current DD2 champion Pier-Luc Ouellette.
