30.11.2011

Světové finále ROTAX MAX CHALLENGE GRAND FINALS 2011 – Al Ain, Spojené arabské Emiráty, 20.– 26. 11. 2011

V týdnu od 21. do 26. listopadu 2011 se na trati Al Ain Raceways ve Spojených arabských Emirátech uskutečnil již 12. ročník prestižního závodu ROTAX GRAND FINALS, který byl stejně jako v loňském roce pořádán celkem ve čtyřech kategoriích: ROTAX JUNIOR MAX, ROTAX SENIOR MAX, ROTAX DD 2 a ROTAX DD2 MASTERS. Světového finále se zúčastnilo celkem 265 jezdců 52 různých národností z 5 kontinentů. Zkrátka, sešla se zda elita pilotů třídy Rotax z celého světa. Podle statistik firmy BRP-Powertrain je ve světě vydáno zhruba 30.000 licencí pro kategorie Rotax. 

Světového finále v Al Ainu se zúčastnili 2 jezdci z České republiky: Mistr ČR 2011 ve třídě Rotax MAX Junior - Petr Fulín a Mistr ČR 2011 ve třídě Rotax MAX Senior - Jiří Forman. Naše firma zde měla ještě další dva jezdce, kteří jedou s podvozkem MS KART ve svém národním mistrovství: Davida Ivicheka, Mistra Kanady 2011 v kategorii DD2 Masters a lotyšského pilota ve třídě DD2 - Martinse Steinertse.

Naším nejžhavějším želízkem v ohni byl bez pochyby Jirka Forman, který se po celou letošní sezonu pohyboval v první desítce jezdců v seriálu Rotax Max Eurochallenge. 

V pondělí 20.11. si jezdci vylosovali techniku, tzn. motor a podvozek jednotné značky, a začala konečná úprava motokár. Ve třídě junior se startovalo na podvozcích BIREL, ve třídě senior na podvozcích SODI, jezdci třídy DD2 jeli s podvozky CRG a piloti DD2 Masters s podvozky HAASE. Stačilo už jen namontovat sedačky a potřebná závaží pro dovážení motokáry na předepsanou hmotnost a mohlo se začít s volnými tréninky. Zpočátku se všichni jezdci potýkali s nástrahami jinak velmi pěkného nového okruhu a také s prachem na trati, ale průběžně se naši čeští  jezdci neustále zrychlovali a v závěru se Jirka Forman dostal mezi nejrychlejší desítku. Petr Fulín se svými časy pohyboval ve druhé desítce startovního pole. 

Ve středu se jel měřený trénink. Našim jezdcům se bohužel příliš nezadařilo: z celkového počtu 72 jezdců v každé třídě obsadil Jirka Forman v seniorech 23. místo a Peter Fulín skončil v juniorech 45.  Jirka nezvládl měřený trénink takticky, když mu nejrychlejší kolo nevyšlo kvůli jiným jezdcům, které musel předjíždět. Měl si lépe načasovat rozložení absolvovaných kol. Petr Fulín nepotvrdil časy, kterých dosahoval ve volném tréninku, a proto se umístil až v 5. desítce. 

Ve čtvrtečních a pátečních kvalifikačních jízdách však Jirka ukázal svou výbornou letošní formu a po výsledcích 9, 4, a 7 se kvalifikoval do sobotního předfinále z 9. pozice na startu. Petr Fulín měl v jedné kvalifikaci nezaviněnou kolizi a s výsledky 15, 12 a 25 do předfinále přímo nepostoupil. Bohužel ani v opravné jízdě, ze které postupovalo prvních 6 jezdců, se mu kolize nevyhnuly a přestože jel zpočátku na velmi pěkném 7. místě, které mu při troše štěstí dávalo naději na postup, propadl se v závěru do druhé desítky startovního pole a do hlavního závodu nepostoupil. Závod takovéhoto formátu byl pro Petra přeci jen velkým oříškem a nezbývá mu, než dále získávat cenné zkušenosti. Samotná účast v tomto prestižním závodě a boje v průběhu kvalifikací a opravné jízdy pro něj byly nenahraditelnou školou. 

Do hlavního závodu se probojovali též na začátku zmiňovaní jezdci Martins Steinerts a David Ivichek v kategorii DD2 a DD2 Masters, kterým celý náš tým samozřejmě velmi fandil. 

V sobotu dopoledne přišly na řadu předfinálové jízdy. Ve třídě Senior Max jel Jirka Forman  velmi rychle a soustředěně a postupně se propracoval z 10. místa po startu na 7. místo v cíli. Zajistil si tak výbornou výchozí pozici pro start do finále. Kanaďan Ivichek jel v předfinále svůj velký závod a z 30. místa na startu se probojoval až na konečnou 14. pozici. Steinerts se nevyhnul několika kolizím a do finále startoval úplně zezadu. 

Odpoledne vše vyvrcholilo finálovými jízdami. Po startu třídy senior došlo k velké tlačenici a Jirka Forman se kvůli kolizi před ním jedoucích jezdců propadl na 10. pozici. Pár kol se se soupeři přetahoval o 8. až 10. místo, pak ale zabral a prodral se až na 6. příčku. Výkony pilotů na špičce startovního pole byly velmi vyrovnané a mezi 4 jezdci nastal boj o 3. až 6. místo. Pak ale došlo ke kolizi mezi Rakušanem Rienerem a Britem Babingtonem. Rakušan vytlačil Brita mimo trať a tomu zhasl motor. Babington se však nechtěl vzdát a zamířil zpět na trať, kde zkřížil dráhu Jirkovi Formanovi. Ten se nečekanému střetu snažil vyhnout, takže jel již polovinou káry v písku. Bohužel se Britovi nevyhnul zcela a zadním kolem přeskočil jeho přední, přičemž si ohnul zadní osu. Po zbytek závodu mu nezbývalo nic jiného, než snažit se udržet si svou pozici. Podvozek již nefungoval dobře a Jirkovy časy byly o 0,2 vteřiny pomalejší než v úvodu finále. Propadl se pak o 3 místa zpět a cílem projel jako 9. Přesto jsme tímto umístněním byli všichni nadšeni:  9. místo mezi světovou elitou byl vynikající výsledek. Nebylo to však umístění konečné.Ředitelství závodu vyšetřovalo všechny kolize a rozdělovalo penalizace. Před Jirkou Formanem dostal 10 vteřin již zmiňovaný Rakušan Riener a ještě jeden z Japonců, kteří tak spadli do druhé desítky a Jirka se posunul na 7. místo. Je to skutečně skvělé umístnění a pro Jirku Formana navíc i obrovská satisfakce za celou letošní sezonu, kdy byl sice stále velmi rychlý, ale k výborným konečným výsledkům mu vždy scházelo trochu toho potřebného závodnického štěstí. Gratulujeme !

Nyní se vrátím ještě k jezdcům v kategoriích DD2 . Více se dařilo Kanaďanu Davidovi Ivichekovi v DD2 Masters, který ve finále skončil jako 16. V průběhu závodu se pohyboval dokonce na 11. příčce, ale v závěru se mu prý už nedostávalo sil, prohlásil  trošku zklamaný, ale stále usměvavý David – toto byla jeho první zkušenost s velkým mezinárodním podnikem.

Lotyšec Martins Steiners se ze zadních pozic nedokázal probojovat dopředu a v závěru obsadil 22. místo.

28.11.2011

Great result of Jiří Forman at the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in Al Ain !

The MS KART Racing Team factory pilot Jiří Forman finished 7th in the Senior MAX class at the Rotax Grand Finals which was held on the Al Ain Raceway in the United Arab Emirates on 26th November 2011. Already in the qualification heats Jiri showed very professional and balanced performance and he managed to reach a great position in the final despite of an unexpected collision and the follow-up bent rear axle.  His 7th place is in the competition of 72 pilots from 46 countries of the world a huge success ! (a detailed race report will follow)

15.11.2011, UK

Hi Milena,

please find attached the final results standings of the European Prokart Endurance Championship (EPEC) 2011.

There are MS KART chassis on the first 8 positions !

 

We had a great season this year.

This is the list of all the results we achieved:

 

EPEC 2011:

1. Team MS SoCo 1 (MS kart)

2. Team Alpha Racing (MS kart)

3. Team MS SoCo 2 (MS Kart)

 

EPEC – 24 hours Le Mans:

1. Team MS SoCo 1 (MS kart)

2. Team Alpha (MS kart)

3. Team Racing for Holland (MS Kart)

 

EPEC – 24 hours UK:

1. Team MS SoCo 1 (MS kart)

2. Team Alpha (MS kart)

3. Team Stretton (MS kart)

 

Kart Mania Honda Challenge UK:

1. Steven Welsh

2. Steve Lyall

3. Andrew Johnsson

 

Best regards,

Howard

Lucas Racing UK

7.11.2011

Jiří Forman finished 5th at the CIK-FIA „U18“ World Championship in Sarno (IT)

The last round of the 2011 CIK-FIA "U18" World Championship and Academy Trophy was held on the track Sarno in Italy on the passed weekend (4-6th November). Our pilot Jiří Forman on MS KART reached a great success in the final race finishing on position 5 !!

Magnus Ruud Kjaer from Denmark got a nice 21st place. 

Out of other drivers starting with MS KART, the Czech Petr Běžěl was not very lucky on the italian track and he unfortunately did qualified for the final as well as Evgeny Shershun from Russia. Gabriela Jílková and Barbora Štěpánová, both girl-pilots from Czech Republic, did not start in the 3rd and last round of the „U18“ WC at all. 

The new 2011 "U18" World Champion became Graham Matthew from Great Britain on Zanardi.  

1.11.2011, Germany

MS KART Conquers The German Team Championship

When MSC Oberflockenbach won the German´s most popular long distance series called German Team Championship (GTC) last year, their MS KART chassis was barely known or seen by the public. Yet the following 2011 season, MS took the series by storm, becoming the product of choice for more of the half of the teams including this year´s GTC Trophy winners from Braunschweig Racing (32) and GTC Senior Masters from Messebau Racing II (65). Also, the GTC youngsters from Domus Vitalis can look back upon a quite successful season, finishing 3rd in the GTC Junior Trophy.

Within just 2 years, MS established itself successfully in German endurance karting, providing excellent performance and reliability even under extremely harsh and dynamic conditions. Claiming this year´s 2nd place in the 2011 GTC Constructor´s Cup, MS also sends out a signal for next year.

More pictures of the GTC on: www.race-report.de

Günter Kunz  
AMZ KARTS 

20.9.2011, USA
Red Line Oil Karting Championship Round #6 Recap

21. 9. 2011
Rotax MAX Euro Challenge Angerville, Francie

30.8.2011
2nd race of the CIK-FIA „U18“ World Championship in Essay / France

The 2nd round of the U18 World Championship was held in Essay / France on 26 – 28th August 2011. The MS KART make was represented there by all 6 pilots: Jiří Forman, Petr Běžel, Gabriela Jílková and Bára Štěpánová from Czech Republic, Evgeny Shershun from Russia and Magnus Ruud Kjaer from Denmark.

In the time practice on Satturday morning the best result from our pilots made Jirka Forman – 10th position out of 74 drivers. Petr Běžel finished 13th, Gabriela Jílková 18th, Magnus Ruud Kjaer 33rd, Barbora Štěpánová 65th and Evgeny Shershun 67th. The fastest one was the Dutch driver Dave Blom.

The race went on with qualification heats where Gabriela Jílková reached the best position on MS KART. She placed on the 12th position after she finished in the individual heats as follows: 4, 5, 9 and 6. Our biggest favourite Jirka Forman was very fast but becasue of an unlucky first heat he made the total 16th place only. His results were: 25, 2, 3, 3. Petr Běžel finished on place 19. He was also very fast but the same as Jirka he did not succeed in the fisrt heat: 25, 2, 4, 4. Magnus Ruud Kjaer finished on place 45, Evgeny Shershun 59 and Barbora Štěpánová 66. Jílková, Forman and Běžel qualified for the prefinal.

Jirka Forman had a good start in the prefinal and took a good position but after that a german driver behind of him knocked him out in a brutal way. The incident was realy nasty and Jirka was lucky that he did not get injured. However, he had to start from the back in the final. Immediatelly after the start there was a big colision which Jirka tried to avoid but during driving through a narrow place he bumped with his rear wheel into some of the karts and bent the rear axle. So, the final finished for him...

The best result out of our drivers finally made Gabriela Jílková, who finished on the 16th place. But it was not an easy race for her as well. After the colision on the start of he final heat she drove quite well together with Petr Běžel. Petr managed to drive up to the 12th and Gabriela was directly behind him. But in the half of the race both of them dropped back to the end of the racing grid. Then both drove forward again and raced around 16th place. In the last round Petr dropped back once again and finally finished on position 21st. Only Gabriela stayed on place 16.

The winner was the Dutch pilot Anthoine Hubert.

For complete results please click here >>

23.8.2011
International Karting Championship of Czech Republic – Sosnova 20-21/8/2011

The penultimate 6th round of the Czech International Karting Championship took place in Sosnova on the past weekend. The rainy weather on Friday made the situation very complicated to organizers who had to close a part of the track. It stopped to rain only on Friday evening when the track started to dry off so the last trainings on this day were already on the slicks. On Satturday as well as on Sunday the weather was fine and sunny. The results of the race weekend are as follows: In the cathegory

BAMBINI the winner was Jakub Běžel who defended successfully the titel of Czech Champion 2010 already now 1 race before the end of the season. Congratulations ! 

1.  Jakub Běžel / MS KART
5.  Jan Šindelář / MS KART
6.  Jan Maleček / MS KART
8.  Marek Mizera / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

In KADET the driver Dominik Javůrek scored on place 4 and 3, in total he finished 3rd. 

3.  Dominik Javůrek / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

Very nice fightings were showed in the class ROTAX MAX. Finally the winner was Jiří Forman who ensured with this result already now the titel of the Czech Champion 2011 ! Great job, congratulations ! 

1. Jiří Forman / MS KART
2. Daniel Němec / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

The winner of ROTAX MAX Junior became Daniel Paprskář.

1. Daniel Paprskář / MS KART
2. Petr Fulín /  MS KART
4. Tomáš Salva / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

The driver Emil Minář was successful again in the ROK class – he finished 2nd.  

2. Emil Minář / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

In the cathegory HONDA the girl-pilot Petra Stodůlková performed well and got the 2nd position. 

2. Petra Stodůlková / MS KART
4. Martin Vidršperk / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

We were made a big joy by the driver Petr Běžel in KZ2, who for the first time this year reached the podium.

3. Petr Běžel / MS KART

Time practice: >>>
Final 1: >>>
Final 2: >>>
Total results: >>>

Many thanks to all the MS drivers and their teams for the great results and good luck at the last round of the Czech Karting Championship in Vysoké Mýto on September 24-25.
Jirka Kahuda
Chief of MS KART

16.8.2011, Canada

Hi Milan and Milena,

Just a quick email to let you know that MS Kart is the Canadian Rotax DD2 Masters Champion !  

A complete press release will be prepared and sent to you by Wednesday of this week.

The kart was excellent to drive and has of course raised a lot of questions as to the origines of the kart. Great job on the assembly of the kart and I will speak to soon...

Best regards,

David Ivichek
Adrenaline Karting

16.8.2011, UK

Hi Milena, 

These pictures are from 2011 Kartmania Honda Challenge at Rowrah. Kart 43 Steven Welsh MS Lucas Racing won 2 heats and the Final with a 2nd in the outstanding heat. Although provisional, we believe that this means that he has secured the Championship with one round still to go.

Howard Lucas has continued with his winning ways even though the opposition was closer this round than they have been in the past.

The 7 karts of Michael Kew and Adam Saunders posting fastest laps in the heats. However, in the Final 4 of the top 5 karts were MS.

There are some video of Ht 1 where 43 came from the back to 2nd And the Final 2011 Kartmania Honda Challenge Rowrah 14 Aug Final

 2011 Kartmania Honda Challenge Rowrah 14 Aug Ht 1

Regards,
Howard
Lucas Racing, UK

15.8.2011, Sweden

Hello Milena,

We had a race the past weekend and it went really good.

It was on my home track, I won the time practice, second in the first qualifying heat and I won the other. Won the prefinal and the final :-)

The chassi MS KART RZF29/KZ works perfect, I have no complaint about it. 

Best regards,
Filip Gudmundsson

10.8.2011

Round 3 of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship,  August 5-7th 2011 Assen / Holland

The third and last round of the European Superkart Championship was held at the track Assen in Holland in the days  5 – 7th of August 2011. It was a part of a rich programme of the Gamma Racing Day which visited nearly 100.000 spectators ! The atmosphere on the track was really fantastic ! 

The course of the whole race was characterized by really high speed in both qualifacations as well as in the final heats. Our MS Superkart Racing Team was represented by both factory pilots  – the Czech Adam Kout, who was after the first two EC round on position 6, and Marko Laine from Finland. Both of them starting of course with MS KART / VM. In total there  were 40 pilots on the starting grid, 9 of them on MS KART chassis. For this event we have prepared a new VM engine for Adam with new cylinders and crank shaft which showed a very good performance during the first tests on the dino (almost 4 HP more then the current engine). Unfortunatelly, even the new engine became the source of numerous problems and we did not manage to make a correct tuning. We were constantly struggled with high detonations. Adam finished neither  the free practice nor the first qualification. In  the second qualification we had to change the engine for the one we have used before this event and finally Adam managed to set the 5th fastest lap time. Unfortunatelly, the times run by all the drivers  in the second qualification were on average by 4,5 sec slower then in the first qualification 1 day before so in total Adam´s 5th time on that day was the 12th fastest lap time in total. Anyway, after all the problems we were fighting with before we were satisfied with that result. Marko Laine took the 23th position. From all the MS KART drivers the fastest one in the time practice was Peter Elkmann (MS Kart/ DEA) on place 10. Though, he was not even satisfied with this result because his ambitions in the last EC round pointed up to the highest places. However, he managed to get there: with an excellent drive from position 10 on the start he went forward up to the third place and reached the podium in the first final ! Adam had to retire the first race 4 laps to go from position 10 because of an engine failure, Marko Laine finished on place 19. Mark Verhaar (MS Kart / VM) from the Dutch race team of Jan Cramer passed the finish line on place 24. 

Results of RACE 1 >>

The second race was in the sign of a battle for getting  the European Champion title between  Emmanuel Vinnuales from France, who was the winner of race 1, and the Englishman Gavin Bennett. The 2011 European Champion became Vinnuales, who by a tactical drive overtook Bennett at the end of the race and got the victory. A great drive was shown by Peter Elkmann again but unfortunatelly Peter had to retire from 3rd position because of DEA engine troubles which he fighted with for the whole course of the champiobnship.  

Before the start of race 2 it rained a little so the track was not completely dry in the first two laps. Adam Kout took advantage of the track condition and managed to get from place 12 up to position 6 during the first lap. However, after the problems in race 1 his engine did not provide the maximum performance anymore and Adam went back step by step to place 11. It was a big pity because in the last race every point would have been useful for the final championship standings. Finally, 5 points from this round made together with five previous rounds 40 points and 9th place in the total ranking of the 2011 European Championship. Peter Elkmann finished in front of Adam on position 8 with 41 points. 

On place 13 and 14 of race 2 there finished two Dutch drivers of Jan Cramer´s team: Romano de Ruit and Priscilla Speelmann, both on MS KART/VM. Marko Laine got the 18. position and Thomas Urhofer from Austria on MS made place 21.

Results of RACE 2 >>

FINAL  STANDINGS >>

In this season our MS Superkart Racing Team will partecipate in one more event which will be the ISS on the 22nd October also in Assen. Both Adam and Marko will fight for a good ranking in the final standings of this championship. Marko is currently on place 2 and Adam on place 4. 

Now, we are all in suspense of the new VM engine comming out in 2012 which should help us to make our Superkarts competitive at the highest level of the European Championship. 

Milan Simak

Chief of the  MS Superkart Racing Team

Hi Milena,

 

attached I send some photos of our partecipation on our recent race in Singapore Karting Championship 2011Round 3. Hope you could update on your website. Our team got 6th and 7th place in this race, hope to get better results in the comming Round 4.

 

Best Regards,

Peter

 

 

7.7.2011, France

MS KART won the 24 hours race in Le Mans !

Hello karters,

well, excellent trip to Le Mans last weekend for the high-light of our karting year - the 24-hour race at the "Circuit Alain Prost" Howard's team won - you have to be called "Steven" to race or crew on that team...... Alpha/AJB were second, also on an MS chassis and were challenging kart 43 very hard until they lost a chain and dropped back. Racing for Holland were third on a kart and kit they rented from Howard !

Autotec were fourth - Jamie, Lee and the two Joe's run by Jeff Johnson.

Fifth place and first in Clubman were GKD-Balmforth, run by Mike Thoms, doing his Ross Brawn impressions on the pit-wall, drivers were three youngsters, (Mark Brown and Tim Oliver who race at Warden Law, Howard's son Connor), and one old codger - we should run a "Seniors" team next year !

Sixth was the "Offline" team, who ran as "Snatch" last year, another kart rented from Howard !  Stretton were 7th, another MS team.

Tom and Mick McDonald were 8th, with Karl North from SAS and Sam Tugwell on the team, great recovery after a challenging start !

Other teams from Three Sisters included Format - Dave Heath, racing with Brian from Pitlane 2000 and Rhauri and Mark from "Controlled" and Blackflea - Tony and Tibbsy drafting in Rob Quinn from Roch Valley and Mark from SAS.

Jim White has posted some pictures on-line at >>>

Final results are still up at >>>  at the moment.

Don't forget next race at Wigan on Tuesday 19th, on the full circuit again. British GP this weekend, let's hope McLaren can find a bit of pace to challenge the Red Bulls !  a wet race might give Lewis and Jenson a chance !!

Dave
Lucas Racing, UK 

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23.6.2011, UK

Hi Milena,

MS Karts continued their success in the British National Championship for Prokarts called Kartmania Honda Challenge. This was a 2 day meeting in Wales at Llandow near Cardiff and MS in the guise of Lucas Racing won all three heats and finals both days. 

 

Round 3 

1st heat             44 Steve Lyall

2nd heat             44 Steve Lyall

3rd heat             1   Andy Johnson                

Final                 43 Steve Welsh

 

Round 4   

1st heat             43 Steve Welsh

2nd heat             43 Steve Welsh   

3rd heat             44 Steve Lyall              

Final                 43 Steve Welsh

 

43 Steve Welsh now has a significant lead to take into the final 3 rounds of the Championship.

 

Regards,

Howard Lucas

17.6.2011, Austria

Hallo Milena,

ich schicke dir nun ein paar Informationen und Fotos zu unserer neuen Serie.

Nachdem die Kart Division 10 Jahre immer mit teameigenen MS Karts Rennen veranstaltet hat haben wir heuer unser komplettes System geändern und fahren die heurige Meisterschaft ausschliesslich mit Leihkarts. Bei den Leihkarts handelt es sich natürlich um MS Karts, wobei das ürsprüngliche 2004er Modell von Milan Simak weiterentwickelt wurde. Nach ca.
30 Änderungen haben wir nun ein wirklich sensationelles Kart, welches nicht nur Optisch absolut gelungen ist, sondern auch fahrtechnisch von allen Fahrern gelobt wurde.
Bei der Motorisierung(Honda 390) sind wir von 20 PS auf originale 13 PS zurückgegangen, wobei allerdings der Fahrspass weiterhin sehr groß ist.
Während eines Veranstaltungswochenendes werden auch die Karts immer wieder neu verlost, damit auch hier Fairness herrscht. Damit die Teams jedoch Sponsoren präsentieren können, hat jedes Team seine eigene Abdeckung, welche bei jedem Kartwechsel ohne Werkzeug getauscht werden kann.

Gefahren wird heuer nur mehr in Österreich und da ausschliesslich in
Fahrtechnikzentren vom ÖAMTC.

Termine:

30.04. - 01.05.2011  FTZ Teesdorf / NÖ  Sprint /
Short Race
04.06. - 05.06.2011  FTZ Mölbling / Ktn. Sprint /
Short Race  
09.07. - 10.07.2011  FTZ Kalwang / Stmk. Sprint /
Short Race 
12.08. - 13.08.2011 FTZ Lebring / Stmk.   24
Stundenrennen
17.09. - 18.09.2011   FTZ Teesdorf / NÖ   Sprint /
Short Race

LG,
Martin Müllner
KART DIVISION

Více informací na http://www.kd2000.at 

13.6.2011

2nd race of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship in Most/CZ

On 10-12th June 2011 the second race of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship was held at the race circuit in Most in Czech Republic. All the free practice sessions as well as the qualification and final heats were driven on dry track. Our MS KART factory team was represented by two pilots: Adam Kout from Czech Republic and Marko Laine from Finnland. On MS KART chassis there also started 4 other pilots: Peter Elkmann from Germany, Priscilla Speelman and Mark Verhaar from the Netherlands and Thomas Urhofer from Austria.

In the qualification Peter Elkmann finished 5th, Adam Kout 14th and Marko Laine 21st. Thomas Urhofer was No. 22., Mark Verhaar No. 23. and Priscilla Speelman No. 25.

The first race on Satturday morning was not lucky for Peter Elkmann who had problems with carburation and finally had to retire from the race in lap 9. Our team driver Adam Kout did very well and managed to go up to place 7. Suddently, he lost some power because one of the cylinders on his VM engine stopped to work for a while and Adam went back to place 8. At the end of the race he tried to overtake Malcom Crowe driving on place 7 ahead of him but the time was too tight so Adam finished on position 8.

Total ranking of the 1st race:

1. Gavin Bennet/GBR, Anderson/DEA

2. Marcel Maasmann/NLD, Anderson/FPE

3. Emmanuel Vinuales/FRA, Anderson/DEA

4. Carl Hulme/GBR, Anderson/FPE

5. Laurent Marchandise/FRA, PVP/FPE

6. Daniel Hentschel/DEU, Anderson/DEA

7. Malcolm Crowe/GBR, Anderson/DEA

8. Adam Kout/CZE, MS KART/VM

9. Vesa Lehtinen/FIN, Anderson/FPE

10. Erik Maria Gjertsen /NOR, PVP/PVP

The 2nd race on Sunday brought great success for our make MS KART. The winner was Peter Elkmann (MS KART/DEA), Adam Kout (MS/VM) finished 6th and Marko Laine (MS/VM) was on place 10 !

Total ranking of the 2nd race:

1. Peter Elkmann/DEU, MS KART/DEA

2. Daniel Hentschel/DEU, Anderson/DEA

3. Gavin Bennet/GBR, Anderson/DEA

4. Marcel Maasmann/NLD, Anderson/FPE

5. Emmanuel Vinuales/FRA, Anderson/DEA

6. Adam Kout/CZE, MS KART/VM

7. Jürgen Reinke/DEU, Anderson/DEA

8. Paul Kennings/GBR, Anderson/FPE

9. David Harvey/GBR, Anderson/FPE

10. Marko Laine/FIN, MS KART/VM

 

The championship standings after two races are: Adam Kout No. 6, Peter Elkmann No. 8, Priscilla Speelman No. 16. and Marko Laine No. 20.

Click here to down-load the complete results:

Race 1 >>

Race 2 >>

Championship standings >>

The last race of the CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship wil take place in Assen /NL on 6-7th August.

 

 

 

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8.6.2011
International Superkart Series – Assen / Holland

Results 1.:

1. Adam Kout MS/VM

2. Jürgen Reinke Anderson / DEA

3. Priscilla Speelman MS/VM

4. Marko Laine MS/VM

5. 5. Erik Martin Gjertsen PVP/PVP

Results 2.:

1. Priscilla Speelman MS/VM

2. Jürgen Reinke Anderson / DEA

3. Marko Laine MS/VM

4. Erik Martin Gjertsen PVP/PVP

5. Mark Verhaar MS/VM

All results  >>

Milan Šimák
MS SUPERKART Racing Team

 

 

 

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31.5.2011

Oregon Rotax Race, USA

 

Hello Milena,

We had a successful race weekend using the MS KART RZF29.

The first round of the "I-5 Corridor Rotax Series" was held this past weekend at Portland, Oregon. This track is regarded as the west coast's most technically difficult race track.

We have never been to this track before, and with little practice time Brody was able to qualify his kart on the front row in P2.    A fantastic result, but even better was leading the first race from start to finish to take the first win of the series in dominating style.

Saturdays main race did not reproduce the same result as Brody's kart got caught up in a first corner shuffle that dropped him straight back to P8. Over the next 21 laps Brody fought his way back to 4th at the finish.

Sundays round got off to a bad start when Brody's kart left the track at high speed and hit a dirt bank during practice. There was substantial damage resulting in a bent frame that required straightening on a chassis table.  We were able to finish the kart just in time for Qualifying, where Brody managed a credible 4th place starting position.

The heat race started with trouble again in the first corner, dropping us down the field yet again. With 12 laps to regain track position for the main race, it was hard work passing his way back to 4th again at the checkered flag.

In the main, Brody had a great start and was running in third place for much of the race. However, we were struggling with a carburetor problem that was affecting the straight line speed of the kart down the main straight. This problem eventually caused Brody to get passed, dropping Brody to 4th at the end of the race.

Though we had hoped for more podium finishes, we were still very pleased with our results in Oregon.

With the field stacked heavily with Kosmic and TonyKarts, our MS Kart RZF 29 showed that it was capable of beating these karts and created much interest in the MS Kart amongst other teams and pilots.

We can't wait to go to the next event and race with this kart.

 

Thanks to everyone at the MS Kart factory.

 

Regards,
Greg Zink 

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30.5.2011

UK, Round 3 EPEC

 

Hi Milena,

we had round 3 of the EPEC (Europena Prokart Endurance Challenge) at Teeside on May 29. We won from just over one lap down to win by 15 sec. Fantastic race !

 

Regards,

Howard  

LUCAS RACING 

  

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17.5.2011

Magny Cours / Francie

 

9.5.2011
International Superkart Series – Oschersleben

On 8-9th May 2011 there took place the second race of the International Superkart Series at the Motorsport Arena in Oschersleben/Germany. Our MS KART Racing Team was represented by our 2011 Superkart factory pilots, Adam Kout / CZ and Marko Laine/FI – both with MS KART chassis and VM engines.

In the qualification training on Saturday Adam made the 2nd fastets lap time and Marko finished 4th. The winner of the time practice was Jürgen Reinke from Germany, the 3rd position belonged to Priscilla Speelman from Holland (MS KART/VM) and the 5th fastest was an other Duch pilot Mark Verhaar (MS KART/VM).

The result of the 1st final heat meant historic success to our makes MS KART and VM: after the race favorite Reinke stopped in the 5th lap our driver Adam Kout took over leadership and won the race with no problems. His team colleague Marko Laine finished 2nd and the 3rd place got Mark Verhaar so the first three Superkart crossing the finish line were MS KARTs with VM engines !!!

On the starting grid of the 2nd final heat everybody was awaiting a duel between Reinke and Adam Kout but unfortunatelly Adam did not have a perfect start and when he managed to shorten the jump of the German pilot driving ahead of him he had to stop in 8th round because of an engine trouble. Marko Laine finished 3rd behind the winner Reinke and Priscillou Speelmann (MS KART/VM).

The next Superkart race will be the 1st round of the CIK-FIA European Championship in Magny Course / France on 15-16th May.  

26.4.2011, UK

Howard Lucas has asked me to send you some pictures from round 2 of EPEC 2011 at
Clay Pigeon on 24th April 2011.
There were 22 MS karts on the grid of 38 karts and the 43 Kart ( Stephen
White, Steven Welsh and Jamie Stubbs) qualified on Pole and went on to win
the 6hour race by 34 sec to add to the previous clean sweep and build a
commanding lead at this early stage of the season. Last season they finished
5th in this round and went on to win the Championship. Since that 5th place
finish MS Lucas have won every race they have competed in for the last year.

Regards,
Jim White

Qualifying

Pole        43 MS SoCo 1           MS / RPM                           Pro
2nd         4 Alpha                    MS / RPM                           Pro
3rd          443 MS SoCo II         MS / RPM                           Pro
4th          98 Baron                  MS / UFO                           Pro

1st           8 Stretton                MS / RPM                           Clubman
2nd          82  Portsdown Racing
3rd          15 NKT - Transitex MS / RPM                               Clubman   (This is a
Portuguese team commuting from Barcelona on an MS Race Hire kart, they won
the  Clubman class)

Race result

1st    43 MS SoCo I    by 34 sec from                               MS

2nd        75 AJB                                                            MS

3rd         443 MS SoCo II                                                MS

4th         92 Balljoint                                                      MS

5th         4 Alpha                                                           MS

7th overall but     1st Clubman        15 NKT – Transitex       MS

8th                     2nd Clubman       46 Grassroots              MS

9th                     3rd Clubman       22 Black Fleas              MS 

Results >>

 

 

5.4.2011
1st race of the Internatioanl Superkart Series (ISS) in Hockenheim

On 1st and 2nd April 2011 there took place the first race of the International Superkart Series in Hockenheim/Germany. This year our MS KART Racing Team is represented by 2 drivers in this king cathegory of karting sport of 250cc. Team´s number 1 is the Czech Adam Kout who finished 6th in the CIK/FIA 2010 European Championship. Together with Adam there is also the driver Marko Laine from Finnland. Both of them drive MS KART chassis and VM engine.

In Hockenheim Adam Kout was the fastest in the qualification in front of Fasberg from Denmark and the Dutch girl-pilot Priscilla Speelman. Marko had the 5th fastest lap time.

In the first final Adam Kout was leading for a long time but 3 laps to go he had to give up the pole position because of some problems with engine colling. The winner was Priscilla Speelman, 2nd place got Jürgen Reinke, Adam finished 3rd. The first three driver passed the finish line with minimum time difference but Adam was not able any more to overtake up to the pole position again. Marko Laine finished 4th, the 5th place belonged to the Dutch pilot Mark Verhaar. Except of Reinke with Anderson / Dea all the other 4 drivers of the top five drove MS KART and VM !

In the second final Adam managed to win without any problems in front of Reinke and Priscilla Speelman. Mark Verhaar finished 4th. Unfortunatelly, Marko Laine had to face some problems with overheated engine and sliding clutch and so finished on the 9th position.

The next race of the ISS will take place in Oschersleben on 7-8th May.

Milan Šimák
MS KART Racing Team

28.3.2011
Holland

Dave Shaw – Lucas Racing UK

1.3.2011
Australia

16.2.2011, Španělsko
ROTAX WINTER CUP 2011 – Campillos, Španělsko 9. - 13. 2. 2011

Ve dnech 9.-13. února 2011 se ve Španělsku na trati v Campillos jel Winter Cup Rotax, kterého se ve třídě senior účastnilo 44 jezdců z celé Evropy. Za náš závodní tým MS Kart zde startovali v této kategorii 3 jezdci:Jirka Forman, Kateřina Žůrková (letos poprvé na podvozku MS) a Vladislav Kurakin z Ruska.

Náš tým se do Španělska vydal už o pár dní dříve, aby před začátkem prvního závodu letošní sezony otestoval na trati v Campillos nově připravenou techniku.

Už ve volných trénincích Jirka Forman ukázal, že je v dobré formě, a řadil se mezi nejrychlejší jezdce na dráze. Dařilo se mu i v kvalifikačním tréninku, kde zajel 4. nejrychlejší čas. Kateřina Žůrková zatím moc zkušeností z velkých mezinárodních závodů nemá a tak byl její start pojatý jako kvalitní rozjetí do letošní náročné sezony. V měřeném tréninku skončila jako 27., Vladislav Kurakin dojel těsně před ní na 26. místě. Po kvalifikačním tréninku se rozjely bodovací jízdy, z nichž prvních 28 jezdců postupovalo přímo do finálových jízd.

Výsledky kvalifikačního tréninku Rotax MAX Senior:

1. Ferenc Kancsar – Intrepid – čas 1:04.194

4. Jiří Forman – MS Kart ( poprvé se nám v měřeném tréninku podařilo vyhrát naši skupinu, ale jak se později ukázalo, byla 2. skupina o něco rychlejší, protože měla o něco lepší podmínky na trati ) – čas 1:04,365

26. Vladislav Kurakin – MS Kart – čas 1:04,968

27. Kateřina Žůrková – MS Kart – čas 1:04,974
 

Bodovací jízdy :

Jirka Forman – MS Kart Racing team – 5, 4, 19, - v 1. jízdě dosáhl nejrychlejšího času v rozjížďce, ve 3. jízdě došlo ke kolizi a následné penalizaci 10 sekund, celkově po bodovacích jízdách 17.místo a přímý postup do finále.

Kateřina Žůrková – MS Kart Racing team – 20, 12, 17, - škoda nedojetí v 1. jízdě, po kolizi Kačka vypadla a to ji po rozjížďkách stačilo pouze na celkové 33. místo a musela jet opravnou jízdu.

Vladimír Kurakin – MS Kart Racing team – 13, 9, 6, - celkově po bodovacích jízdách na 18. místě a postoupil přímo do finále. Vláďa jel dobře a postupně se stále posouval dopředu.

Opravná jízda :

Kateřina Žůrková dojela na 6.místě , což bylo poslední postupové místo do finále. To bylo super, všichni naši jezdci se dostali do finále !!!

Semifinále určuje pořadí pro postavení na startu ve finále, což je samozřejmě nesmírně důležité jako výchozí pozice pro dobrý konečný výsledek. Zde měl velikou smůlu dobře jedoucí Jirka Forman. Hned po startu byl nekorektně v první zatáčce vyražen mimo trať a sen o dobré pozici na startu finálové jízdy se rázem rozplynul. Jirka skončil až jako 33. Velmi pěkně jela Kateřina Žůrková, která semifinále dokončila na 17.místě. Vladimír Kurakin dojel dvě místa za Kateřinou jako 19.

Finále – Jirka Forman startoval z důsledku předchozí havárie z poslední řady. Hned po startu ale nasadil velmi vysoké tempo. Technika fungovala skvěle a Jirka předváděl bravurní jízdu. Bojoval až do samého konce a podařilo se mu probojovat až na fantastické 10. místo v cíli. Při velké vyrovnanosti v kategorii Rotax Max Senior to byl opravdu úctyhodný výkon. Jirka zajel ve finále také nerychlejší čas na kolo a to nejednou !! Nebýt nezaviněné kolize v semifinále, dosáhl by Jirka určitě na „bednu“. Kateřina Žůrková dojela ve finále po kolizi, při které se propadla až na poslední místo, jako 29. a Vladimír Kurakin 19.

S výsledky a hlavně dobře fungující technikou jsme byli nakonec velmi spokojeni. Nyní se připravujeme na 1. závod ROTAX MAX EURO CHALLENGE, který se koná 2. – 3. dubna v Belgickém Genku.

 

Jan Cramer