Innovation is the name of the game – Rotax Mini Max configuration upgraded for 2018 Rotax is always looking at providing customers with the best value while never compromising on durability. Although in the long run a Mini Max is very economical to own, the purchase price is high compared to an air-cooled 60cc engine. … Read more
Finally the long awaited new technology cylinders have been released and will be legal for racing in 2018! Some very important notes: Junior, Mini and Micro Max: these classes already have the latest technology cylinders since the beginning of 2017 so there is nothing new and no change to the cylinder in these three classes. … Read more
DD2 Bradley Liebenberg 3rdBenjamin Habig 31stJason Coetzee 26th DD2 Masters Michael Stephen 3rdJonathan Pieterse 5th Senior Max Luke Herring DNS Junior Max Joshua Coertze 22ndSebastian Boyd 25th Mini Max Leyton Fourie 5th Micro Max Muhammad Wally 29th
Muhammad Wally started karting at the tender age of four, under the tutelage of Leeroy Poulter at the old Kyalami karting circuit. Legend has it, instead of following Leeroy around the track, he decided that he should overtake the multiple SA karting champion. Hi family said that’s when the penny dropped: Muhammad wanted to race … Read more
If there is any karter in the country who can be said to have dominated his particular category in 2017, that young man is Leyton Fourie, of Alberton. The 12-year-old started racing in 2012 and in 2013 he finished second in the Northern Regions Championship for 50 cc Cadet karts. He steadily gained in experience, … Read more
Cape Town’s Sebastian Boyd has come a very long way in a very short karting career. He only started karting three years ago, after his cousin Dino Stermin (a past Rotax Junior Max champion) invited him to watch a kart race at Killarney. To date Sebastian lists his achievements as 2nd in the South African … Read more
Luke Herring is another of those karters who looks totally composed behind the wheel of a race machine. The Cape Town-based 20-year-old matriculated at Parklands College of Education in 2015, while his karting career began when he was a mere five-years-old. Known as “Hurricane Herring” in karting circles, he has to date won four South … Read more
Michael Stephen is one of the most successful competitors in the history of South African motorsport! Now aged 36, he has racked up a total of 12 South African Motorsport titles. Seven of those titles are in karting, while the rest have been earned on the main circuit in sedan cars. He is a three-time … Read more
Brad Liebenberg is currently the class act in South African karting. The 18-year-old from Fourways, Gauteng, says that for him motorsport is not just a sport, but a way of life and a platform. ”You need to continuously develop and hone your skills to remain ahead of the competition,” he says. Bradley’s record in karting … Read more
Cetinich, Dias show Gauteng boys the way Zwartkops Kart Raceway’s penultimate Northern Regions Kart Championship round delivered a few interesting surprises, most of which served to set up cliffhangers in the various classes’ title races heading into the November finale, while two young ladies showed the gentlemen the way and the Dias family came away … Read more