Karting

There were many announcements by driver management firms this week signing drivers on the junior rungs of the motorsport ladder.

From Asia to the UK, and everything in between. Here’s your list of 2024’s biggest karting events and their winners

Having already profiled the karting talents that got signed by F1 teams in 2024, here were the year’s top performers without F1 junior status.

Williams junior Sasha Bondarev made his single-seater racing debut in September, taking a challenge he has faced this year into a new setting

The Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team has recruited karting legend Mike Wilson this yeat to help develop the youngest of its junior drivers.

F1 teams are signing younger drivers as juniors, seeing early investments could lead to greater long-term returns. Here are those drivers:

The entry lists for the upcoming Motorsport Games have been published, with many rising stars heading to Valencia this weekend.

Kenzo Craigie led a Prema one-two in the OK Junior final of the Karting World Championship, which was decided by a final corner crash.

Ethan Jeff-Hall won the world championship for OK karts in a sodden final at PF International decided with a last lap move.

Red Bull has added four more new names to its Junior Team roster following the relaunch of its Driver Search initiative.

The Champions of the Future season concluded at PF International with local knowledge coming to the fore in the OK and OK Junior contests.

The finalists have been named for the seventh running of the Richard Mille Young Talent Academy shootout, which awards a paid-for seat in Spanish F4 as its prize.

The IAME Euro Series concluded in remarkable fashion at Genk, with Danny Carenini taking the X30 Senior crown.

McLaren has announced it has signed karting superstar Dries Van Langendonck to its driver development programme.

Ethan Jeff-Hall earned a FEED Racing France shootout spot en route to winning last weekend’s Rotax Max Challenge International Trophy.

There was a clean sweep of victories for Belgians as the CIK-FIA European Karting Championship made its first visit to Slovakia last weekend.

Oliver Rowland is not only tasting success racing in FE, but also as a karting team boss and by helping young drivers. How does he have time for it?

The FFSA, France’s motorsport governing body, has announced the creation of a new karting contest called the Anthoine Hubert Trophy.

Williams has announced Alessandro Giusti and Sara Matsui as the two newest members of its Formula 1 junior team.

Karting is the training ground of most drivers before single-seaters, and it’s always useful to check what’s happening in the major series.