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The Rotax Max 125 Engine is a two-stroke 125 cc (7.6 cu in) engine designed by Rotax, part of Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), to provide cost-effective but high speed kart racing. Built in Austria, the engine is liquid cooled, equipped with a balance shaft, integrated water pump, electric starter and centrifugal clutch.
Rotax Max DD2 karts Racing kart The start of the race On the track Jr Rotax - 2010 US Grand Nationals Jr Rotax Accident at the race On the track in Italy. The Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals (RMC) is a kart racing series owned and organized worldwide by BRP-Rotax and its distributors, approved and in compliance with CIK-FIA. Competition takes ...
Kart racing in Illinois in 1962 Kart racing in Berlin, East Germany, 1963. American Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956. [1] Early karting events were held in the Rose Bowl Stadium car park. [2]
During the 1970s, Bombardier built the Can-Am brand of off-road competition motorcycles designed for motocross and enduro with Rotax engines displacing 125, 175, 248, 366, 500 and 800 cc. The bikes competed successfully in professional racing with Gary Jones winning the 1974 US 250cc AMA motocross national championship . [ 22 ]
Presently three different classes of Superkart compete in the Australian championship: 250 International (for two cylinder 250cc engines), 250 National (for single cylinder 250cc engines), 125 Gearbox (for 125cc engines). Rotax max family of classes no longer compete for Australian championship status but have a single event non-gearbox ...
Rotax World Final kart racing. FIA Karting World Championship (1964–present) FIA Superkart World Championship (1983–1995) FIA Karting Academy Trophy (2010–present) Rotax Max Challenge (2000–present) IAME International Final (2007–present), previously the Bruno Grana International Trophy and the IAME International Challenge
Lohner (1950—1963), Rotax-Sachs and ILO engines; [75] Merged with the Rotax engine company to form Lohner-Rotax in 1959 — Austria; MAC (1972—1977), brand of API — India; Maico (1955—1966), models included the Maicoletta — West Germany; Manet (1960s), models included the S100 and Tatran 125.
KZ2 is a kart racing class using 125 cc water-cooled two-stroke engines yielding about 52 hp (39 kW). The engines are equipped with a 6-speed gearbox. Z2 is the second fastest of the KZ karting racing categories, and technical regulations are similar to faster KZ1 except that in KZ2 the gearbox must be "hand-operated and exclusively mechanical without a servo system", as well as the use of ...