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The Italian Karting Championship promoted by ACI Sport starts this weekend on the Salento track in Ugento. There will be 5 events in the 2025 edition that will award the National titles for the MINI, OKN-J, OKN and KZ2 classes. After the inaugural race in Ugento, Round 2 will take place on the renovated Viterbo track, before moving on to Sarno, Cremona and Franciacorta.

The official Kalì Kart team will line up 7 drivers in this 1st Round, focusing in particular on the youth categories. In Mini U10 Max Zvarich and Francesco Petta will be racing with the Kalì Kart colours, in Mini Gr3 David Moscardi and Elias Rubin, in OKN-J Marat Zvarich and in OKN Joel Taipale and Mark Zvarich.

The Italian Championship has always played an important role for the Mini classes, assigning, in fact, the most prestigious titles for these categories. But at the same time, the Italian Federation has done an excellent job with the OKN categories that have the technical potential to relaunch karting in the individual National Championships with greater effectiveness than the single-brand Trophies. In this regard, it must be said that the OKN categories will be among the most numerous with 55 drivers in the OKN-J and about 70 in the OKN. This excellent work will be rewarded this year by the FIA ​​with the assignment to Italy of the FIA ​​World Cup OKN that will be held in Cremona in September. These reasons guarantee a lot of attention towards the Italian series, which boasts in its Entry List some of the most professional teams of these strategic categories and the best drivers.

Regarding this year’s format, it must be said that it will include one Final on the final day of Sunday, preceded by two Pre-finals. The weekend will give the first verdicts with the qualifying practice on Friday, to then continue on Saturday with the heats. The action on the track can be followed with Live Timing on the official website of the championship (www.acisport.it) and on Sunday all the races will also be broadcast with the Live Streaming platform.

Great weekend for Kalì Kart colours at the 36th Margutti Trophy that took place this weekend in Lonato. In the OK Junior category Ilia Berezkin dominated the OK Junior by winning all 3 qualifying heats, the Prefinal and the Final, always with an impressive race pace. With this victory, the Kalì Kart brand writes its name again in the event’s palmares after the 1993 success with Ennio Gandolfi in the Junior category. The team certainly shares this victory with Machac Motors that manages the TM engines for the official Kalì Kart team and that once again provided a high level service.

But the positive weekend of the Kalì Kart team did not stop at OK Junior, in fact, high-level performances arrived from all categories. Starting from the youngest of the Mini categories, where Max Zvarich had obtained an excellent P3 in the U10 qualifying practice on a dry track and in the Final he closed in 7th place in the rain, then became P11 for a penalty related to the front fairing. In Mini Gr3, the rain complicated the Ava Lawrence’s weekend (conditions where the Australian girl does not yet have much experience), who did not qualify for the Final, but at the same time David Moscardi made a good return to the team by conquering the top ten in the Final. In OKN-Junior Dario El Malki made a good debut with the team, obtaining 15th place in the Final, while Marat Zvarich retired a few laps from the chequered flag. Finally, in the OKN category Mark Zvarich was very unlucky, as he did not qualify due to a contact in the repechage while he was comfortably in the top 6, while things went better for Charles Troxler who gained access to the Final where he then finished P16. Joel Taipale also performed well in OKN, but the Finnish driver compromised his race with an exit from the track in the Prefinal that forced him to start from the back of the grid. Nevertheless, in the Final he recovered 21 positions, finishing in 11th position under the chequered flag.

Full results on www.trofeomargutti.it

This weekend the 36th edition of the Margutti Trophy will take place on the Lonato track, an international one-off meeting among the longest-running in the karting scene. Many prominent names are present in the palmares of this important event: from Giancarlo Fisichella winner in 1990 to Robert Kubica, who won the 100cc Junior with CRG colors in 1999. As for Kalì Kart, the last success in this race dates back to 1993 with Ennio Gandolfi.

This year, the presence of the Kalì Kart team at the Margutti Trophy has the aim of continuing the work program of the beginning of the season with the 2025 chassis and also of introducing new drivers to the team such as the Italian Dario El Malki, who will compete in his first race with the official team this weekend. David Moscardi will be back, instead, alongside Ava Lawrence in Mini Gr.3. Seasonal debut after completing the winter testing program also for Joel Taipale, who will be competing in the OKN category.

The weekend program includes qualifying practice and the first qualifying heats on Friday 21st, Saturday the whole day dedicated to the heats and on Sunday the Pre-Finals and Finals. The complete line up for the Kalì Kart team will be composed of Max Zvarich (Mini U10), David Moscardi and Ava Lawrence (Mini Gr3), Marat Zvarich and Dario El Malki (OKN-J), Charles Troxler, Joel Taipale and Mark Zvarich (OKN) and Ilia Berezkin in OKJ.

Race Preview and Live Timing on www.trofeomargutti.com

The first race of the year for the Kalì Kart Racing Team, which took place in Sarno for the 2^nd   round of the WSK Master Series , achieved all the objectives set on the eve. The priorities were to start working from a technical point of view with the new drivers and guarantee them a race weekend in which they could get along well with the technical staff and the 2025 chassis.

From this point of view, Ilya Berezkin’s debut in OK Junior was very positive, even if his weekend was tainted by an unpleasant episode in which the Russian driver is totally blameless, but which completely compromised a possible positive result. The facts that we report, without expressing opinions or giving evaluations as they are the responsibility of the Stewards, saw a driver of the Prema team voluntarily hitting Berezkin on Saturday morning after the chequered flag at the end of the warm-up, in all likelihood to make amends after being wronged the day before during a Heat. The impact was very violent and Berezkin’s kart overturned and was completely destroyed, but more importantly the Russian driver suffered many bruises and was unable to race the two Heats scheduled for Saturday. Fortunately, on Sunday morning he was able to take part in the warm up and took part in the Pre Final starting from the last row. His race was simply extraordinary with 19 positions recovered and the final 8^th place which, however, was not enough for him to enter the Final by a few points.

Better notes came from the MINI category where in the Under 10 class, Max Zvarich was always in the top ten in the Heats and achieved an excellent P6 in the Final. Colbe Pattison’s first race with Kalì Kart colors was also positive, even if his weekend was partly compromised by a mistake in Qualifying. His best race was the Super Heat on Sunday morning in which he finished in P7, while in the Final he remained in the middle of the pack, losing contact with the leaders. The work carried out over the weekend by the English driver was certainly positive and will represent the foundations on which to build the next steps of the season.

Ayrton Tonna, however, encountered more difficulties, failing to qualify for the Final after alternating very good performances with some mistakes. In the OKN Junior category for the brothers Mark and Marat Zvarich it was a contact-making race and the first step of a long work that will see them involved in all the major events of this category.

The Sarno race was also very important because the structure of David Rodorigo Teknoteka made its debut in the race as supplier of the TM engines for the MINI category, which will support the Kalì Kart team this season as an engine partner. The work carried out side by side during the winter has already borne the first results and all the feedback received from the track is very encouraging. As regards the TM engines of the OKN junior and OKJ categories, Kalì Kart will continue the collaboration with Machac Motors which, in these categories, boasts an incredible palmares and needs no introduction at all.

Now the team is moving to the Lonato track where some tests are scheduled for this week and where the 3^rdRound of the WSK Master Series will take place the following one.

In the last few days Kalì Kart has confirmed the extension of the agreement with the three Zvarich brothers also for the 2025 season. Max, Marat and Mark, therefore, after the first contact with karting in Italy in the final part of the last season, have confirmed their commitment with the Factory team of the CRG Group, with the aim of capitalizing on all the experience gained in the Iame and Rotax Championships in Asia and, above all, the positive experience gained in the end-of-season events last year in Italy, when they made their debut in the WSK meetings and in the Italian Karting Championship.

Max, the youngest of the three brothers (born in February 2016), will race in the MINI Under 10 category; Marat, born in 2013, will move up to the OKN Junior class and Mark, the eldest one born in 2011, will start the season in OKN Junior and then move up to the OK category starting from May. The Zvarich family moved to Italy to guarantee their three children maximum support in their sporting experience, which will be tackled with a very intense program of tests and races.

The team had the opportunity to get to know the three boys and during the winter as well as the opportunity to draw up a personalized work plan with the aim of getting the most from the point of view of the boys’ growth. From this point of view, the first races held with Kalì Kart last year already guaranteed them the opportunity to learn a lot, both from a technical point of view and with regards to driving and they will resume the work  done with the team on this path. Their first 2025 race will be the WSK Master Series in Sarno, before continuing with the other WSK events, the Italian Championship and the FIA ​​World Cup OKN. During the year, some races for Marat will also be evaluated in the OK Junior category and in the OK one for Mark.

Kalì Kart is glad to announce the collaboration agreement with the driver Joel Taipale for the 2025 season in the OK and OKN Senior category. Joel was born on 7 October 2011 in Helsinki (Finland) and began his karting journey at the age of 9 in the National MINI category, achieving many podium finishes in his first racing season. In the MINI category he gained experience and achieved successes, both in the Finnish National Championship and in the Iame Series. In 2023 he made his debut in the OK Junior category, quickly becoming one of the most competitive drivers in the National Championship and in 2024 he took part in the FIA ​​Academy Trophy representing Finland. In this International series he once again had a positive season, taking P12 in the Championship and many top ten placings, as well as having set the best lap in the Final in the races in France and Sweden.

This year he will move to the OK category and the agreement reached with the Kalì Kart Factory Team will guarantee him the possibility of having high-profile materials and technical support available to capitalize on all the experience gained in recent years. His competitive program will be concentrated on the OKN category in Italy to prepare for the FIA ​​World Cup of this category, that will take place in Cremona in September, but as part of the season he will also take part in some OK meetings and, in all likelihood, also in the FIA ​​World Championship in Sweden.

This is how Joel has commented on the agreement with Kalì Kart:

“Being able to be part of a Factory Team is every driver’s goal and I believe that at this stage of my karting experience it is the right choice. My plan will be to capitalize on the experiences gained to date in the youth categories and be able to fight for a place among the big names in the OKN category in Italy, where many competitive drivers and teams will race. My first contact with the team was very positive in the Lonato tests, in particular due to the feeling I immediately had with the technical staff. I’m confident I can do a good job with the team and I can’t wait to do the first races together”.

A new piece of the Kalì Kart drivers line up was made official in the last few days with the signing of Ayrton Tonna. The Maltese driver, born in July 2014, will be racing in the MINI Gr3 category, taking part in the main WSK races and the Italian ACI Championship.

Ayrton has the same name of the legendary F1 champion Ayrton Senna and has been racing since the age of 4, using a helmet with the same colors as the Brazilian driver. His experience in karting began in 2021 with a 2^nd place in the Malta Entry Level, a Championship which he won in 2022 then, when he also made his debut in the Rotax Series. In 2023 he raced in the local ACI Championship in Sicily, winning it and last year he gained important experience in the Italian one, in the Mini Under 10 category, as well as taking part in the FIA ​​Motorsport Games in Valencia representing the island of Malta. Last year he was also selected among the 10 best athletes in Malta, a prestigious recognition awarded by a jury of journalists.

For him, 2025 will be an important year in which he will have to capitalize on his experiences and aim to obtain results in the WSK races and in the Italian Championship. The agreement with Kalì Kart will allow him to have technical support from the Factory Team and complete a journey in MINI which has seen him constantly grow from a performance point of view. The first tests carried out in January in Lonato were very positive and the first scheduled race will be the WSK Master Series one on February 9^th in Sarno.

This is how Ayrton has commented on the agreement with Kalì Kart:

“I am happy and proud of this possibility for my karting career. The Kalì Kart Factory team has exceptional technical staff and materials. During the first days of testing I have already learned a lot by working with them and I am sure I can be very competitive this year. I started as a CRG driver when I was 4 years old and I can’t wait to get back racing with the Tinini family”.

The Kalì Kart team is pleased to announce the collaboration agreement with the Russian driver Ilya Berezkin for the OK Junior category. A highly experienced driver with an already important sporting curriculum despite his young age, Ilya can be considered a top driver in the Junior category and will bring to the Kalì Kart team not only performance, but also the ability to develop technical material and useful feedback on setup and technical choices.

The agreement signed last week provides for an initial duration of two years and participation in the most important races in the OK Junior category, including the FIA ​​World Championship in Sweden in September. After this appointment, the move to the OK class is already expected at the end of the season in preparation for 2026.

Ilya was born in October 2011 in Russia and won his first National Championship in Micro Rotax in 2020 and later also winning the Cadet title in 2022. Last season, again in Russia, he won the OK Junior title and took part in many meetings also in Italy, winning the WSK Open Series in Cremona and Franciacorta and also repeating himself in the WSK Super Cup, again on the Franciacorta track. Last year he also won two races of the Italian Championship in the Junior category (La Conca and Lonato), calling many professionals’ attention to him.

This is how Ilya has commented on the agreement with Kalì Kart:

“The Kalì Kart project is ambitious, very professional and being part of it is a source of pride and motivation for me. The first tests this year confirmed the good feelings we had with my family during the winter negotiations. Now we will finally have the first race in Sarno next week and we will be able to start this journey together with the hope of going far and achieving many successes.”