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ACCESSORIES (AND DETAILS) OF THE KART REPUBLIC KR1 BY PREMA RACING, WINNER OF THE WORLD OKJ 2024

Jacopo Colombo
06 October 2024 • 8 min. read

On the weekend of September 13-15, 2024, in the United Kingdom, at the PF International Kart Track (a track characterized by a mix of slow and tight turns alternating with fast and flowing sections), the most important event of the season for the OKJ class was held: the FIA Karting World Championship. The title, which since 2016 - the year the Direct Drive OK and OKJ categories were established - has been awarded in a single round (on this subject, read “Editorial | What's the point of such an FIA Karting World Championship?”), was won by Kenzo Craigie, a British driver from the Prema Racing team (managed by KR Motorsport, Kart Republic's sports division), at the wheel of a Kart Republic KR1 chassis (read the dedicated “Under Review” for more details) powered by IAME Reedster V and with Maxxis MW11-MW12 wet tires. Craigie came out on top at the end of a gripping race, decided at the last corner (find out how in the featured stories on the TKART Instagram account) whose final outcome was made even more uncertain by weather conditions characterized by rain and temperatures below 20°C, which forced all participating teams to adopt, on the very last day of the race, setup changes to adapt the chassis to weather conditions that had never occurred during the previous days. Thanks to the support of Dino Chiesa, founder and owner of the Kart Republic brand, we were able to find out what accessories and setup solutions were used that allowed the home driver to win his first world title.

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Chassis

As mentioned, Dino Chiesa - the big boss of Kart Republic, heading all racing teams directly linked to the brand (thus also Prema Racing, as far as its kart division is concerned) - opted, in this race, to use the Kart Republic model KR1. It is noteworthy that a chassis, which “on paper” is mainly intended for Shifter classes, was used. This corroborates the fact that, beyond the “on paper” definitions that can be made of a frame, then it is the contingent conditions of the track and the specific type of tires in use that lean toward one model or the other. In this case, “On hard rubber and in low grip conditions, you always lean toward the KR1,” Chiesa declares.

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About 1701 euro (VAT included)

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