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Magazine about Karting
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ABOUT THE<br />
ROTAX EURO<br />
The Rotax Euro Challenge is now in its 13th successful year, organised and promoted<br />
by the <strong>RGMMC</strong> Group. Having seen some great driver’s go through the ranks<br />
over the years, countless names come to mind including the first to reach Formula<br />
1 the young Dutchman Max Verstappen – who started his career on the world<br />
famous race track Genk, which is also host to the opening round of the 2016 Rotax<br />
Max Euro Challenge.<br />
Guanyu Zhou well on his way to F1, came to the Rotax<br />
Max Euro Challenge series as a junior. Now he is in the<br />
Ferrari Driver Academy competing in the 2016 FIA<br />
F3 series after much success in Formula 4, where he<br />
was team mates with another Euro driver and talent<br />
Ralf Aron.<br />
Jack Hawksworth first sat in a kart in May 2004, and<br />
raced with us at Braga in October 2004 and subsequently<br />
several seasons with <strong>RGMMC</strong>. Jack went on<br />
to become a full time professional race driver in the<br />
USA driving Indy car and NASCAR.<br />
Lando Norris started racing the Rotax Euro Challenge<br />
as a junior, demonstrating amazing natural talent<br />
from the beginning. None today in the world of karting<br />
hasn’t heard of Lando, World and European Champion<br />
in KF classes and now showing great promise in single<br />
seaters and GT racing storming his way up the motorsport<br />
ladder – definitely a name to remember.<br />
Apart from drivers now going through the ranks of<br />
Formula and GT racing, names like Ben Cooper and<br />
Chris Lock became factory kart drivers in KF categories<br />
and proved their talents were second to none<br />
by winning some of the most prestigious titles in the<br />
world in their first years.<br />
Coming from outside of Europe, including South<br />
Africa’s own Wesleigh Orr & Cristiano Morgado, both<br />
champions which went on to race high levels of single<br />
seaters including A1GP.<br />
Still in the world of karting, as team managers and<br />
driver coaches, you will meet a lot of Euro veterans<br />
around the paddock every weekend passing on their<br />
skills to the next generation of racing drivers.<br />
Motorsport legend Ayrton Senna said “A very important<br />
message, go-karting is the best school children<br />
can have to learn how to drive. It is a safe and healthy<br />
sport, and the speed of competition and challenges<br />
are very pure. The young competitors will become the<br />
future champions of Formula 1”.<br />
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