Saturday morning dawned at Palm Beach International Raceway with a bit of a chill in the air. As any good high school science teacher will tell you, there's no such thing as cold, only an absence of heat. However, no matter what the temperature was, there was no absence of heat on the PBIR racetrack for the initial 2012 Rotax MAX Challenge round of Formula Kart Production's Florida Winter Tour presented by SPORTALITY.

South African Cristiano Morgado won the Masters category of the Rotax Max Challenge World karting championship in Al Ain on Saturday, November 26.
 
The highly-talented 32-year-old driver from Durban dominated the week-long meeting in the DD2 Masters category at this challenging venue near Abu Dhabi, and led from start to finish after setting the pace in all his preliminary heats.

Picture Gallery from 2011.11.25

Nations Cup

• Nations Cup results - Australia 1^st, Canada 2^nd and South Africa 3^rd

Final Races 26.11.2011

• Junior Max Final - Aston unfortunately involved in first lap incident
• DD2 Masters Final - Cris Morgado wins the Final!
• Senior Max Final
• DD2 Final

pictures 25.11.2011

What a Friday! With the growing excitement on the search for the final champions, there is also the little sad side of it, that after the event is over, we will need to wait a year again to celebrate the Rotax MAX idea on this spectacular level. At least it is not football where you have to wait four years for the next World Cup.

pictures from 24.11.2011
        
What a great day of racing we have seen this Thursday. With some clouds and a little breeze coming in the afternoon, we saw perfect conditions for kart racing. Although some of the locals might have said that it was rather cold. However, for most of the spectators at the track it was still shorts and flip flop weather.