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The first round of the 2012 ROTAX MAX EURO CHALLENGE saw the new season begin with some incredibly close racing at the Karting Genk circuit in Belgium over the weekend. With 190 drivers representing 30 nations from around the world, the opening event of the championship left no room for the faint-hearted, even when it came to the race for positions just to qualify for Sunday’s all-important finals. The weather was near perfect and the technically challenging 1,360 metre Genk track provided an ideal location for round 1 of the series. Event organisers RGMMC Establishment welcomed the support of the competitors, both former and new to the opening edition of the ‘Euro’, where they introduced the new on-board safety cameras for the first time.

Early on Race Day at Round One of the South African Rotax Max Challenge it seemed as if Cape Town’s notoriously unpredictable weather had put the entire 2012 Championship series in jeopardy.

A torrential down pour early in the morning saw the Killarney Kart Circuit awash with giant puddles on crucial corners, and it was only thanks to the efforts of WPMC Karting Section chief John Hoal and his hardy team of marshals that the track was swept dry enough to stop karts simply aquaplaning straight off the track with no grip at all.

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April 7, 2012, Killarney Kart Circuit, Cape Town.

The first round of the 2012 SA Rotax Max Challenge Series is hosted by the very fast Killarney circuit near Tableview in Cape Town on Easter-Saturday. And for a good portion of the 100-plus entries expected for the event, this race is the first step on the way to the 2012 Rotax World Finals, which will be held in Portimao, on the Algarve coast of Portugal at the end of November.

Triesen, Liechtenstein - 14^th March, 2012

The first edition of the ROTAX MAX EURO CHALLENGE (March 28 - April 1) looks set to be an exciting start to the 2012 four-round series with entries full to capacity in each of the three classes being contested. More than 190 drivers from 30 nations will line up on the grid at the initial ‘Euro’ event at the popular Karting Genk circuit in Belgian, which also played host to the CIK-FIA World Championships as well towards the end of 2011.