Going to the most famous and historical of circuits, Nurburgring, and covering all of its 20.832 km on a go-kart. Total ecstasy!

Let’s go back to 2012 when someone in the office had the brilliant idea:

“What if we went to the Nurburgring to race karts?”
And it wasn’t meant as a joke, since the “Ring” is a temple for engine lovers, who every year arrive in thousands, any way they can: by car, motorcycle, bus, “Ring-Taxi”... What matters is getting there!
No one has ever tried with a kart, though.

So TKART director Yanek Sterzel and Marco Zamponi, our photographer and a great ‘Ring connoisseur, turn to Energy Corse’s Michele Panigada to organize history’s first kart stint at the ‘Ring.

For those who do not know (!), the old Nurburgring, or Nordschleife, is a 20.832 km long track in Germany. Inaugurated in 1927, it said goodbye to competitive racing in ‘76 , after Niki Lauda’s tragic accident.

Our project doesn’t make much sense: the Nurburgring’s 4 km straight alone is enough to kill the engine of a shifter kart, built to handle short distances. So TM Racing, Energy’s official engine provider, takes a standard KZ motor and replaces the piston with one of a different size: “less performing, but more reliable” – they assure us.
The man entrusted to carry out our ambitious feat is the Unmasked Driver, aka Alberto Reoletti, TKART’s test driver.

However, since we need a standard of reference to evaluate the kart’s performance, we turn to Mythos Cars, Italy’s Caterham importer, and rally their participation with a Track Day R500: 263 hp for 516 kg and a power/weight ratio of 510 hp per ton - translated, a power-house that goes from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.88 seconds!
We leave Milan with a van packed to the brim,… (keep reading on the "ONCE IN A LIFETIME" TKART Magazine channel)