This year’s edition of the Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Festival took the annual BRP-Rotax event for Micro MAX and Mini MAX drivers across the English Channel for the first time on the weekend of September 20-22 for some intensely fought competition. The Warden Law Kart Club at Karting North East in the United Kingdom played host to the special event organised by Motorsport UK for the Rotax youngsters.

BRP-Rotax is pleased to reveal the location the 2024 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Festival for the Micro MAX and Mini MAX, in collaboration with Motorsport UK. Karting North East and Warden Law Kart Club, near Sunderland in the north of England, will be the first British venue to host this unique event for the youngest Rotax drivers on September 20 to 22, 2024. Supported by the Authorized Rotax Distributor for Kart in the UK, J.A.G. Rotax, prizes include RMC Grand Finals 2024 tickets for the Micro- and Mini MAX champions at the Rotax racing season highlight in Sarno, Italy from October 19 to 26.

New or amended regulations proposed by the Specialist Committees are made available here for consultation. The publication of the respective Committee’s Action Sheets will begin a period of consultation that will end on the date advised within the document.

The Motorsport UK Wera Tools British Kart Championships have unveiled a brand new look to the calendar for 2024, with a revitalised format for each of the classes for the season ahead. The Championship will once again ensure high-level, fair, competitive racing for all via its on-track CCTV and Race management system, with a dedicated and comprehensive live stream broadcast at each event. Control fuel continues to be provided by series partners Vital Equipment who will also offer onsite fuel testing each weekend. Trackside support will also be offered at all rounds for competitors.

The Motorsport UK Wera Tools British Kart Championships will burst into life for the IAME, TKM and KZ2 classes this weekend (28-30 May) as Shenington Kart Circuit in Oxfordshire plays host to their opening counter of the 2021 season.

Following the reminder to the Motorsport UK community of COVID-19 protocols at Motorsport UK events, issued on Wednesday, we would like to reiterate the protocols for Clerks, Stewards and COVID-19 Officers to follow.

Motorsport UK are seeking applications to represent the UK in the 2021 FIA Karting Academy Trophy – a prestigious international championship for 12-14-year olds. The FIA ​​Karting Academy Trophy is a unique competition designed to pit the best young karters from around the world against each other on equal terms. 

Motorsport UK, organisers of the British Kart Championships and JAG engineering, the UK distributer for Rotax, have today announced the calendar for 2021. The schedule has been designed to meet preferences indicated from recent surveys among the Rotax drivers and takes into account the current COVID-19 restrictions.

The 2020 Motorsport UK British Kart Championships (BKC) season will be concluded in December, as the final round of Honda and Rotax classes will be played out at Whilton Mill in Northamptonshire on 19/20 December.

Welcome to the 2020 British Kart Championships brought to you by Motorsport UK and Demon Tweeks Clay Pigeon Raceway is a popular venue that has remained largely unchanged over the past two decades, so competitors will be racing on the same layout that Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton cut their teeth on.

Since the unfortunate news that the LGM Championship has been cancelled for 2020, Motorsport UK are delighted to confirm that we have extended the already full cadet grid and that we also have limited spaces left in the Mini, junior and senior X30 classes.

Motorsport UK has announced that in anticipation of motorsport restarting in the UK from 4th July, it is inviting online permit applications from 1st June 2020. Motorsport is currently suspended throughout the UK until 30th June 2020. Following ongoing positive dialogue with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and having set out its strategy and anticipated conditions for restarting motorsport disciplines, the governing body is now moving to its next phase of getting the sport back on track. Further details will be communicated following the next Motorsport UK Board meeting of 3rd June.

After thousands of Hot Laps and two demanding Semi Finals, the Motorsport UK Karting Esports Finals were to be an exciting affair on Thursday evening (16 April). The virtual PF International circuit was to be the host of the finals for the Motorsport UK and Motorsport UK under 12 classes and the Motorsport UK Open category – open to non-licence holders, with several drivers from around Europe taking place.

Motorsport UK in association with KartSim, Alpha Live and Motorsport Games will be launching the Motorsport UK Karting Esports Championship (Easter Series) – Britain’s premier Karting Esports series on Monday 6 April, and the best thing, it’s open to all.

Motorsport UK, the British Kart Championships and all associated stakeholders have collectively agreed to postpone the start of the 2020 season until 1 May at the earliest.