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GETTING CLOSER: AUSTRALIAN SUPERKART CHAMPIONSHIPS at SHELL V-POWER MOTORSPORT PARK SA
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With just over 5 weeks to go I am sure everybody is doing the hard yards in the
garage or shed getting their gear prepared for the Australian Superkart
Championships at SHELL V-POWER MOTORSPORT PARK SA. The dates are
Friday 19 th , Saturday 20 th and Sunday 21 st September. There is an old saying
that most of the race is won in the garage doing the preparation but with 2
strokes all that can go out the window quickly. At Championship events, the
bar gets raised a lot higher and drivers do whatever they can to squeeze the
last drop of power out of the engines.
We still have not received the sup regs from track management and they
usually send them to us 4 weeks before, so they are not too far off. SKA has to
include the Superkart Sporting Regs which is ready to go.
As per last year the entry fee will include Friday practice, Saturday and Sunday
racing. It will also include garage hire and Transponders. Entry fee will be $700
per kart per driver and our Superkart category only has one slot due to the size
of the race meeting so it is all in together. From a spectators view it will look
great.
Because of the size of the event, being a National and State championship, the
regular garages were at a premium cost, which would have pushed up the
entry fee considerably. Track management has offered us the covered in car
ports on the left side as you drive in, and in consideration for our competitor’s
costs SKA has agreed to this arrangement. There are 24 of them and all for us
and we were told that we can park our trailers at the rear of the sheds which is
more convenient for all and will create a great atmosphere.
We can make garage allocations based on your pairing requests or if no
request is received with your entry we’ll leave it to whenever you get there
you can set up. There’ll be at least 2 karts per garage so we all get a garage
space.
Unfortunately, in our Superkart arena there are a few protagonists who seem
to take great delight in trying to derail the hard work that SKA puts in to bring
to the drivers and teams a professionally run and great race weekend. You’ve
seen and heard enough on regular news and media to know that there are
plenty of mis-information from fools out there. Unfortunately superkart may
have them as well, so if it’s about SKA that’s not clearly from us, check and
trust only us for the information, not some anarchist!
However, what matters most is that despite interference, SKA will continue to
provide excellent championship standard race events where all superkarters
are welcome, supported, and treated with respect.
We have no time for politics or rumours and our focus is on close hard racing
and having a drink and yarn with all your karting mates when the meeting
comes to an end.
We’ll be getting the sporting regs out very soon.
Regards
SKA Committee.
The July 2025 Championship Update
The one and only SKA Australian Superkart Championships are only 8 weeks away from now and in the middle of September we can almost guarantee perfect sunny weather 🙏. The SKA committee has everything in place for running the event and hopefully the Sup Regs should be out within the next 4 weeks. That is governed by Shell V-Power Motorsport Park at Tailem Bend circuit and every category running is running for their Championship so it will be a cracker of a weekend.
We are catering for all Superkart classes and depending on the entry numbers for the Stock Honda, that class could be part of the 125GB open class. Due to the lower numbers of the Rotax Max drivers in the past, that class will be Rotax Light and Rotax Heavy only. We would particularly like to ask all the Rotax Max drivers to come and be part of the SKA Australian Superkart Championships as it is not that often that you get to complete on such a great circuit. Make your own decision why you got into kart racing in the first place, and as most everyone will say “I just want to go racing”! SO – COME RACING WITH SKA!!
A reminder of the SKA dates in September:
Friday 19th open practice
Saturday 20th Qualifying and Racing
The latest newsletter from Chryss and the SKA team
4th June 2025
The 2025 Superkart season has been ticking along nicely with the serious players in each respective state pulling out all stops to improve their lap times in preparation for some of the bigger events coming up later in the year.
In August the Queensland Superkart Club is holding the 50th anniversary of the club starting up and the event will be held at Queensland Raceway and has already attracted a lot of interest from the southern drivers. The new track owner, Tony Quinn, has made massive amounts of improvements to the complex so anyone from down south who has not been to QR for a while will notice the huge face lift which has been undertaken there.
SKA are in the process of taking the Australian Superkart Championships to QR in 2027 and for spectators that place has it all.
The SKA committee have been working towards our Championship to be held at SHELL V-POWER MOTORSPORT PARK at Tailem Bend on the 19th, 20th and 21st September so you have a bit under four months to get your race gear in top condition. There could be quite a few coming from WA this year as well.
SKA have been running the Australian Superkart Championships now since 2008 at a range of different venues and our main goal is to run good quality events. It is the most important and recognisable event of the year and to be a winner of this event is a memory a driver can carry for the rest of his life.
The entry package for this year will include Friday practice, Saturday and Sundays competition, garage hire and MyLaps timers which is the same as last years package. Entry fee TBA but should be about the same as last year.
SKA are in a combined group of car categories and every category is competing in a round of the Australian Championship so it will be a full-on weekend of serious racing. The numbers in Superkarting are back to where they were before COVID so we should see some good fields in all classes and some spectacular racing.
Last years winners in each class were
250 International Gary Pegoraro
250 National Brett Burvill
125 National GB Sebastian Amadio
Rotax Max light Doug Savage
Rotax heavy Patric Ross
There could be some new lap records this year especially in the Rotax Max class with the introduction of the new cylinder. The 125 gearbox class will be the one to watch as well.
This will be a MA licence event using the current MA STR rules
Stay posted for more updates
SKA Committee
