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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
January Newsletter 2025 Superkarts Australia
30th January 2025
Welcome to the 2025 race season and it is obvious things are starting to look a lot better now after COVID put the brakes on almost everything including Superkarting. The Qld club is going from strength to strength with new members and that has come from a lot of perseverance and hard work doing static displays at all kinds of events. Unfortunately, our response from the GC 500 V8 Supercar event was Zero but you can never come away from one of those events packed with motor race enthusiasts and say it was a waste of time. The Qld club will be doing the GC 500 again as well as the V8s at Queensland Raceway. Most of the average people who want to get involved in motor racing are realising the cost is way out of reach with all the car categories and that really puts Superkarting out front for affordable racing. If I could give any advice to the other state clubs, it would be to get active and start doing displays again. If you wait for new members to come along on their own,t it will not happen and you need to get out there and sell the sport. It’s a bit of work but could make the clubs see good numbers again and you only have to do it two or three times a year. The bar has really been risen with the quality and presentation of the karts these days and our Superkarts are looking spectacular.
SKA would like to announce that the Australian Superkart Championships will be held again at Tailem Bend on the 19th, 20th and 21st September. The management at Tailem Bend are doing everything they can to support SKA Superkarting and they also commented on how spectacular the karts looked. Put the date in your diary and come and race at the best and smoothest track in Australia. So, in September, race on a great track and not a goat track.
Last year the team from WA made a huge effort with travelling just to enjoy the top level of racing and it is so easy for the SA drivers and even the Victorian drivers with only 6 hour travel time. For Qld and NSW it is also a bit of a marathon to get there but worth every effort for all drivers to compete in an Australian Championship as the bar gets lifted to another level.
Keep tuned for more updates
SKA Committee
Events manager Chryss Jamieson
0417713409
