Before Christmas, Speedhouse Racing confirmed 17-year-old Jose Antonio Penalta Yague – The Spaniard will compete in the 2025 Rookie Challenge season

With the FIA ​​awards ceremony which took place in Rwanda in the last few days, the curtain has finally fallen on the 2025 sporting season for international karting. As usual, at CRG, it’s time to take stock with President Giancarlo Tinini. The first reflections are aimed precisely at the international season, in which once again CRG products were among the great protagonists.

Karting Australia is delighted to announce the continuation of its long-standing partnership with the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, bringing new and exciting opportunities for Australian kart racers in 2025.

Visa Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB) today announce Isack Hadjar will join Yuki Tsunoda for the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship, as the team sees another Red Bull Junior Driver step up to into one of the most sought-after seats in motorsport.

Liam Lawson has been rewarded for his encouraging Visa Cash App Racing Bulls displays this season in the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship with an Oracle Red Bull Racing seat for 2025 alongside four-time world champion Max Verstappen. 

Multiple karting champion Daniel Guinchard is set to kickstart his single-seater car racing career with Hillspeed next year after being announced as the Derbyshire team’s first driver signing for the 2025 GB4 Championship.

F1 Academy race-winner Bianca Bustamante will make her GB3 Championship debut with Elite Motorsport in 2025. Bustamante, who celebrates her 20th birthday in January, has finished seventh for the past two years in the F1 Academy standings.
 

Over 150 competitors to take part, representing 16 nations, in fierce competition across six categories.

Another long, intense year of racing is ending, and the time has come to take stock for the Sauber Academy drivers. Théo Pourchaire, Zane Maloney, and Carrie Schreiner kept active throughout 2024, racing on some of the world's most renowned circuits representing Sauber Motorsport's driver development programme in their respective campaigns.
 

After a groundbreaking switch to single-seaters in 2024 that included numerous race wins, Iron Dame Doriane Pin is poised to reach new heights in 2025 with ambitious plans across three highly competitive championships around the world. Her 2025 campaign will feature continued support from Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team and from PREMA Racing, building on the partnerships which proved successful in 2024.

The Journie Driving Academy is celebrating a successful inaugural year of supporting grassroots Canadian karting drivers. Young drivers Marley Chaudhary (12), Nigel Longley (14), and Sloan Sterling (14) received help from Journie Rewards, including financial support, equipment, a trip to the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto NTT INDYCAR SERIES race and more. In partnership with Journie Rewards, Chip Ganassi Racing contributed regular mentoring sessions and career guidance to the three Canadian kart racers.

Williams Racing is pleased to announce British karting rising star Will Green as the newest member of its Driver Academy. Will has grown up in the world of motorsport, driving a kart for the first time at just four years old. Since then, he has consistently delivered strong results across various karting series.

A new young talent will be proudly sporting our colours on the F1 Academy grid, as Emma Felbermayr is announced as the team’s entrant in the all-female series for 2025. The soon-to-be 18-year-old will be racing for KICK Sauber F1 Team in her Rodin Motorsport-operated car, making her debut at the 2025 F1 Academy season-opener in Shanghai, China.

Fox Motorsport has confirmed Holly Miall as the first member of the team’s GB4 Championship line-up for 2025 as the series enters a new era. The Chelmsford racer steps up to GB4 after two years with the Fox’s Ginetta Junior line-up and will spearhead the team’s third season in the category.
 

GB4 Championship runner-up Alisha Palmowski has been confirmed as Red Bull Racing's driver for the 2025 F1 Academy season, in which she'll compete for Campos Racing.

Nandhavud Bhirombhakdi is one of the new Trident Motorsport drivers the 2025 Formula Regional European by Alpine championship. The 18-year-old from Bangkok, Thailand, already has one season of experience in the category. Before that, he raced in the Italian F4 championship in 2023 and 2022, the year in which he also competed in the German F4.

The FIA has introduced the FIA Standard 8877-2022 Protective Clothing for Karting Competitors, marking a significant advancement in karting protective garments, enhancing safety performance and design requirements and, for the first time, introduces these requirements also for karting gloves and karting shoes.

At its meeting on 11 December 2024, the FIA World Motor Sport Council took the following decisions on the basis of proposals from the International Karting Commission.

2024 was a milestone year for WSK Promotion, marked by the debut of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy and the Rotax MAX Challenge Winter Cup among its championships, resulting from the collaboration with BRP-Rotax. This new partnership has established a championship distinguished by the high quality of its competitions and remarkable participation.

Preparations are underway for the third edition of the single-seater Championship promoted by ACI Sport and WSK Promotion, which complements and enhances the Italian F.4 Championship program. Starting from the 2025 season, the Euro 4 Championship will officially become the E4 Championship, adopting a name aligned with the Italian F4 Championship.

At its meeting on 11th December 2024, the FIA World Motor Sport Council took the following decisions on the basis of proposals from the International Karting Commission.

WSK Promotion President Luca De Donno sends his Christmas wishes to the 1.000 drivers from 64 Countries that contested the 12 rounds of the WSK 2024 season. In total, 3.191 drivers were verified.

American ace Jason Pribyl will make the jump up to GB4 with the new ADM team in 2025.

Argenti with Prema has confirmed the signing of Yuanpu Cui for the 2025 GB3 Championship. Cui steps up as he continues his racing journey with the team in partnership with Prema. 

Matteo De Palo is the new Trident Motorsport driver for the 2025 Formula Regional European by Alpine Championship. Born in Rome on November 8, 2007, De Palo will tackle the category for the second season after an initial apprenticeship in 2024 during which he achieved two important results such as fourth place at the Red Bull Ring and fifth place at Spa.

At the occasion of the 2024 FIA General Assemblies week in Kigali, Rwanda, the FIA has announced the creation of an unprecedented Global Karting Plan that establishes a clearer and more accessible pathway into and throughout the FIA Karting system. Karting is the entry point for the vast majority of motorsport competitors, and the plan focuses on increasing accessibility to the discipline that will provide equal opportunities to drivers all over the world.

The 2025 edition of the Rental Kart World Contest organized by CRG will take place on the weekend of October 18-19 on the 7 Laghi Kart track in Castelletto di Branduzzo (Italy). The event, after two editions with a Sprint format, will return to its origins as in the first one in 2017 on the Lignano track, when, on the same weekend, both the drivers’ title was awarded with a Sprint race program, and the team title with an Endurance race. In two days, therefore, we will have two separate races: on Saturday the Sprint one in which over 160 drivers will compete in 3 different categories and the Endurance race, with over 30 crews taking part in it on Sunday.

ART Grand Prix announced that young Japanese driver, Taito Kato, will join the team for the 2025 season, competing in both the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA) and the Formula Regional Middle East Championship (FRMEC).

As in 2023, the FIA Karting prize-giving ceremony took place in Nice, France, on Saturday 7th December at the Hyatt Regency Palais de la Méditerranée. The karts of the three World Champions were displayed to the guests.

Van Amersfoort Racing is excited to announce that American racing talent Payton Westcott will join the team for a full 2025 Formula 4 campaign. She will compete in the Italian Formula 4 Championship, the Euro F4 Championship, and the Formula Winter Series, officially taking on her rookie season in F4