The official sporting programme for the new season has been completed, with 20 drivers lined up in the MINI, OKJ, OK and KZ/KZ2 categories, in the main international competitions.
They are just a few weeks away from the start of a new and intense international racing season. The Tony Kart Racing Team is ready for the 2023 challenge, with the aim of repeating the successes it is used to achieve and that in the last few years became true with the victory of the FIA Karting World Championship in OKJ, in 2022, and the double success in KZ and OK classes, in 2021.
The Tony Kart Racing Team has to face this year a calendar full of appointments, set up on the traditional races promoted by the FIA Karting, RGMMC and WSK Promotion. An intense sporting programme that, obviously, will be faced counting on the reliability of the Tony Kart Racer 401 RR (for KZ/KZ2, OK and OKJ categories) and Tony Kart Rookie (for the MINI), powered by the Vortex engines, the OTK Kart Group’s Engine Division.
In KZ/KZ2, their sporting department will be led by Noah Milell, already World Champion in 2021, joined - as in last year's races - by Tom Leuillet, European KZ2 Champion in force. Confirmed are also the Luyet brothers, Jean and Samuel, as well as the young Norton Andreasson, in his second full season in the shifter class.
In OK, the vice-champion of the Champions of the Future Euro Series Luigi Coluccio will again find James Egozi and Jakub Rajski at his side. Jan Przyrowski, already winner of the OKJ title in the WSK Euro Series and third classified at the FIA Karting World Championship, will this year face his first full season in the Senior category. After having competed a few rounds in 2022 in their official colours, Sebastiano Pavan will be part of their full-time racing team, together with new-entry Arthur Poulain. Finally, Zoe Florescu Potolea joins their team as part of the Junior Girls on Track - Rising Stars programme, in collaboration with the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission and Ferrari Driver Academy.
In OKJ, Alp Hasan Aksoy is getting ready to defend their colours for the second year, together with two new entries: Kirill Dzitiev, WSK Super Master Series vice-champion in force, and the Davide Bottaro - Scott Kin Lindblom duo, who both switched to the Junior class in the second half of the 2022 season.
More drivers lined up by the Tony Kart Racing Team in the MINI. Ludovico Mazzola, already with the team last year in the last events of the season, will be employed full-time for 2023, together with Ilie Tristan Crisan, Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi and Andrea Manni.
The 2023 season will start in Lonato del Garda (February 2nd – 5th) on the occasion of the first round of the WSK Super Master Series.
2023 Tony Kart Racing Team’s drivers line up:
MINI
Ilie Tristan Crisan
Sebastian Eskandari-Marandi
Andrea Manni
Ludovico Mazzola
OKJ
Alp Hasan Aksoy
Davide Bottaro
Kirill Dzitiev
Scott Kin Lindblom
OK
James Egozi
Luigi Coluccio
Zoe Florescu Potolea
Sebastiano Pavan
Arthur Poulain
Jan Przyrowski
Jakub Rajski
KZ/KZ2
Norton Andreasson
Tom Leuillet
Jean Luyet
Samuel Luyet
Noah Milell
FIA Karting Race Calendar
March 23rd-26th, Valencia (ESP)
FIA Karting European Championship – OK / OK-Junior, Round 1
April 13th-16th, Zuera (ESP)
FIA Karting European Championship – KZ / KZ2, Round 1
May 18th-21st 2023, Trinec (CZE)
FIA Karting European Championship – OK / OK-Junior, Round 2
FIA Karting Academy Trophy, Round 1
June 15th-18th, Rodby (DNK)
FIA Karting European Championship – OK / OK-Junior, Round 3
FIA Karting Academy Trophy, Round 2
July 6th-9th, Sarno (ITA)
FIA Karting European Championship – KZ / KZ2, Round 2
July 27th-30th, Cremona (ITA)
FIA Karting European Championship – OK / OK-Junior, Round 4
FIA Karting Academy Trophy, Round 3
September 7th-10th, Wackersdorf (DEU)
FIA Karting World Championship – KZ
FIA Karting World Cup – KZ2
FIA Karting International Masters Super Cup – KZ2-Masters
October 5th-8th, Franciacorta (ITA)
FIA Karting World Championship – OK / OK-Junior
RGMMC Race Calendar
March 9th-12th, Valencia (ESP)
Champions of the Future – OK / OK-Junior, Round 1
May 3rd-6th, Trinec (CZE)
Champions of the Future – OK / OK-Junior, Round 2
May 31st - June 3rd, Rodby (DNK)
Champions of the Future – OK / OK-Junior, Round 3
July 12th-15th, Cremona (ITA)
Champions of the Future – OK / OK-Junior, Round 4
September 13th-16th, Franciacorta (ITA)
Champions of the Future – OK / OK-Junior, Round 5
WSK Promotion Race Calendar
February 2nd-5th, Lonato del Garda (ITA)
WSK Super Master Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 1
February 16th-19th, Franciacorta (ITA)
WSK Super Master Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 1
March 2nd-5th, Sarno (ITA)
WSK Super Master Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 3
March 9th-12th, Lonato del Garda (ITA)
WSK Open Series – MINI, Round 1
March 30th – April 2nd, Cremona (ITA)
WSK Open Series – MINI, Round 2
April 13th-16th, Castelletto di Branduzzo (ITA)
WSK Open Series – MINI, Round 3
April 27th-30th, Cremona (ITA)
WSK Super Master Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 4
June 8th-10th, La Conca (ITA)
WSK Super Cup by MINI
June 22nd-25th, Sarno (ITA)
WSK Open Series – MINI, KZ2, Round 4
August 31st – September 3rd, Franciacorta (ITA)
WSK Euro Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, Round 1
November 2nd-5th, Sarno (ITA)
WSK Euro Series – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 2
November 16th-19th, Lonato del Garda (ITA)
WSK Final Cup – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 1
November 23rd-26th, Franciacorta (ITA)
WSK Final Cup – MINI, OK-Junior, OK, KZ2, Round 2
ACI Karting Italian Championship Race Calendar
May 19th-21st, Cremona (ITA)
MINI, Round 1
June 8th-10th, La Conca (ITA)
Trofeo Nazionale MINI
June 16th-18th, La Conca (ITA)
MINI, Round 2
July 14th-16th, Val Vibrata (ITA)
MINI, Round 3
August 25th-27th, Sarno (ITA)
MINI, Round 4
September 22nd-24th, Franciacorta (ITA)
MINI, Round 5
Trofeo Andrea Margutti
March 16th-19th, Lonato del Garda (ITA)
MINI
Trofeo delle industrie
October 19th-22nd, Lonato del Garda (ITA)
MINI