2016 KARTING AUSTRALIA MANUAL RELEASED

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Karting Australia’s National Competition Rules have now been finalised for 2016 and the Karting Australia Manual released.

The release of this document comes following several months of review by three separate committees – Competition and Events and the Technical Functional Committees and an ad-hoc committee comprising several Executive Commissioners and Directors, members of the Karting Australia administration team and Karting Australia’s senior national officials formed a Rules Review Committee.

There have been a number of substantive changes of the Rules contained within the Manual for 2016. A number of other changes have also been implemented to assist in the ongoing improvement of making the Rules as simple as possible and user friendly for all karting participants.

State Regulations
As a part of the consultation process in developing the 2016 Manual, it was decided to allow more flexibility in the manner in which events are run at certain levels of karting competition, most particularly those at State controlled levels.

Almost every State seems to view what constitutes a Club day competition and how they should be run slightly differently.

Accordingly, each State Karting Council will be able to develop (within approved limitations) their own set of State Regulations to govern events that are included on their own State Calendar of events (State Series, State Cup, Zonal Championship, Zonal Cup, Club Championship and Club competition).

Class Names and Divisions
There has been a need to simplify and consolidate the names of many of Karting Australia’s Competition Classes and Divisions.

As a consequence of the tyre tender process and the awarding of new tyre supply agreements that traverse all competition levels, the opportunity and need existed to consolidate the class names.

Karting Australia has chosen to implement a set of simplified Class names that are descriptive, simple to understand and that also reflect the similar principles followed by the world governing body of four wheel motorsport – the FIA.

Both Cadet classes are already are descriptive and easily understood. Cadet 9 leads directly to Cadet 12. There is no confusion.

From the start of 2016, National (including 2015’s KA Junior) becomes KA4, Clubman (including 2015’s KA1) becomes KA3, KF3 becomes KA2 and KF2 becomes KA1.

The names for these four Classes, reflect the Karting Australia brand, exhibit a clear ‘pathway’ concept from slowest to fastest Classes that is well established in FIA open wheel class naming principles – i.e. the lower the numeric suffix, the faster the car that it relates to (i.e. F1 is clearly much faster than either an F3 or an F4 car and competition is conducted at differing levels.

Junior Pathway (6-15 yrs)
Cadet 9 (6-9 yrs 7.6hp) – Cadet 12 (9-12 yrs 10hp) – KA4 Junior (12-15 yrs 13hp) – KA2 (13-15 yrs 28hp)

Junior Pathway To Seniors (12-15 yrs)
KA4 Junior (12-15 yrs 13hp) – KA3 Junior (13-15 yrs) (22hp) – KA3 Senior (15+ yrs 22hp)
KA2 (13-15 yrs 28hp) – KA1 (15+ yrs 38hp)

Senior Pathway (15+ yrs)
KA3 Senior (22hp) – TaG 125 (28hp) – KA1 (38hp) – KZ2 (CIK Class – 44hp) or
KA3 Senior (22hp) – KA1 (38hp) – KZ2 (CIK Class – 44hp)