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The opening round of the 2027 Rotax MAX Challenge APG took place at Auto Paradise Gotemba on 8 November under cloudy skies. Eba Ogino won Micro MAX, Taihiro Sakano dominated Senior MAX, and Mao Shimazu won the MAX Lights KYOJO final before finishing fourth in Senior MAX.
A plain guide to the five steps between karting and F1, the Super Licence points that decide who gets there, and the Asian championships that feed in.
Nathan Hew speaks to Loke Yin Yi on her journey to becoming a Malaysia's first KYOJO VITA podium finisher and being a woman in motorsport representing Malaysia on global grids.
The 2026 Asia Pacific Motorsport Championship at Bira, Thailand, produced dominant performances across the Cadet and Junior Karting Sprint categories, with Thailand’s Kalen Delsi sweeping every session in Cadet Karting Sprint and the Philippines’ Mariano Axel Nocom doing the same in Junior Karting…
Andrew Yuan won the Micro MAX final at the RMC Mizunami Mayor’s Cup, edging Takahisa Kokubo by 1.054 seconds over nine laps at Festika Circuit Mizunami. Held on October 24 and 25, the annual end-of-season special race also saw AKITA and Junji Okamoto claim victories in the MAX Masters and Senior…
RMC Japan’s penultimate round at Motegi’s North Short Course produced four class winners, with Hironori Funahashi taking the closest victory of the day in MAX Lights. Racing in dry, fine conditions, Funahashi won by just 0.584 seconds over Nobuyuki Kato, while Taiga Tezuka, Hiroaki Watatani and…
Three young Asian drivers are making waves on the single-seater scene. We meet Aaron Mehta, Ben Nguyen, and Imran Putera as they chase their next big break in Formula Trophy Malaysia.
The Rotax MAX Challenge Japan season finale at Suzuka Circuit saw Michinaga Fujiwara and Shunji Okamoto take the Junior MAX and MAX Masters wins, while Louis Mikami completed a clean sweep in Micro MAX to secure the 2026 Japanese Championship.
The Rotax MAX Challenge Asia Trophy closed its 2026 season at LYL International Karting Circuit in Selangor with seven championships decided across the final weekend. Eeshan Swaroop and Patthapol Kaewkarnjanasate converted perfect weekends into Mini MAX and Junior MAX titles, while Jacob Raphael…
The British Kart Championships IAME season concluded at Silverstone with seven drivers of Asian origin competing across Water Swift and Junior X30. Oliver Tse closed the weekend with a podium in Final 2, while Sukhmani Khera secured fifth in the Junior X30 championship after taking the group’s…
The 2026 Rotax MAX Challenge APG series concluded at Auto Paradise Gotemba, with the final round deciding titles across eight categories from Senior MAX to the MAX Lights Junior and Mini MAX classes.
The FIA Karting Arrive and Drive Asia-Pacific Championship concluded at the Circuit of Macau-Coloane on 13 September with both titles decided in dramatic fashion, as Signe Pejs Ørnbøll was promoted to Senior champion by a front fairing penalty and John Han secured the Junior crown on the final lap.
