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Alex Fontana

Prior to his racing career, Fontana enjoyed a very successful period in the junior Karting ranks, the highlights of his career coming in 2007 when he won the Swiss KF3 championship and the following year when he became champion in the Bridgestone Cup Switzerland KF2 class.

Altındağ, Ankara

Altınpark - A large park, formerly a golf course, noted for its 10 metre high statue of a loaf of bread at the entrance; contains a fairground, go-karting, ice-skating, large pools for boating and fishing, the Feza Gürsey Science Center, and much more.

Cornell West Campus

Some annual events include drive-in movies on the Tower, Fall trips to hike the gorges, sea kayaking on Cayuga Lake, go-karting, a Winter Semi-formal, a Mardi Gras celebration, trips to the Late Show with David Letterman and an end of the year barbecue.

David Ostella

After racing in various American and Canadian karting series, Ostella made his professional racing debut in Formula BMW Americas in 2008 for Eurointernational, finishing 9th in points.

Heysham

Heysham also had a large outdoor karting track on Heysham Head where racing legend Nigel Mansell used to race in his teenage years.

Jean-Denis Délétraz

Jean-Denis's son, Louis, won Swiss karting championships in 2009 and 2011 before moving to Formula BMW (2012) and Formula Renault (2013).

Jeremy Metcalfe

He also had a productive career in karting, taking the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, a championship that was previously won by Scuderia Ferrari reserve driver Giancarlo Fisichella.

The next few years would see Metcalfe move into the European stage of karting and in 2003 the youngster won his first Major European title – the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, previous won by Formula One race winner Giancarlo Fisichella.

Joe Shishido

When Akagi died in a go-karting accident, Nikkatsu needed a new action star, and Shishido was selected.

Juan Piedrahita

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Piedrahita began his driving career at age of 7 karting in Mexico.

Justin Marks

The facility opened in October 2012, and was inspired by another karting track located in Parma, Italy.

Ken Allemann

Ken Allemann is a Karting and race car driver born in Moutier, Switzerland.

Marvin Kirchhöfer

Born in in Leipzig, Saxony, Kirchhöfer began karting in 1999 and raced mainly in his native Germany, working his way up from the junior ranks (Bambini-B) to progress through to the KF2 category by 2010.

Michael Ryan Johnson

Johnson moved up through the karting ranks to a national level winning five United States karting national championships in the IKF and KART (Karters of America Racing Triad).

Mohammed bin Sulayem

The Club is the official representative in the Emirates of the FIA, motor sport’s world governing body, and its motor cycling, karting and classic car counterparts, the FIM, CIK and FIVA.

Norman Nato

Born in Cannes, Nato began his karting career in 1998 at age six, and eleven years later won the French KZ2 Championship.

Patrick Kujala

Born in Marbella, Spain, Kujala began his karting career in 2005 at age nine, competing in Spanish karting championships.

Paulie Harraka

Harraka also won a popular karting event at Mark Dismore's karting facility in Indiana, the RoboPong 200 (now known as the Dan Wheldon Cup after the 2005 winner was killed in October 2011) karting event, teamed with on-sabbatical NASCAR driver Ricky Rudd.

Rodolfo González

After previously competing in karting, González raced in the 2003 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series, before racing in the main series in 2004 and 2005 while attending City College Norwich.

Ryan Phinny

After karting, Phinny made his Formula BMW USA debut in 2005 for Gelles Racing for two races and competed full-time in 2006 for Hearn Motorsports.

TeamSport Go Karting

TeamSport have nine tracks located throughout the United Kingdom in Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Crawley, Camberley, Cardiff, Gosport, London Tower Bridge, North London, and Southampton making TeamSport the UK's largest indoor go karting company.

Thruxton Karting Circuit

Thruxton Karting Circuit is a kart racing circuit near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England.

Vicky Piria

Piria began karting in 2003 and raced primarily in her native Italy for the majority of this part of career, working her way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF3 category by 2008.


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