Affordable, fair kart racing

EACH DRIVER DRAWS HIS OR HER ENGINE OUT OF A HAT WEEKLY

With South African kart racing having become insanely expensive over the last few years, the implementation of a new cost-saving class could bring new competitors to the category.

The new Vortex Super Rok DVS class was designed to move the sport back towards its original roots, with a competitive, cost effective and fair new championship introduced.

The category’s main claim is a level playing field, with only identical specification engines allowed and each driver drawing his or her engine out of a hat every race weekend.

The series’ Vortex Super Rok DVS engines are built utilising the very latest technology to the most exacting standards, but the class should allow a father and son/ daughter team to simply arrive and race, without needing massive expenditure and intricate tuning know-how.

While other karting classes see well-monied competitors perpetually at an advantage by spending huge budgets on tuning and fettling their bought engines, DVS Super Rok engines are owned, equalised and maintained by the series promotors and owners.

The units will be rented out to the drivers as part of an affordable package on a race-by-race basis.

Each driver’s practice and qualifying engine are literally drawn out of a hat at the start of the race weekend.

Then the three quickest drivers will swap their complete motor units including carburettor and exhaust with that of the slowest trio after qualifying.

Races will have set costs for entry fees, engine rental, oil and a set of control tyres per race day, over and above the cost of each driver’s own chassis and travel budget.

Furthermore, the DVS engine has no battery, no starter motor or clutch and the karts need to be bump-started in the traditional karting way.

For 2018, Super Rok DVS will race four times on Cape regional karting dates at Killarney, four times in Gauteng as part of the Rok Cup SA roadshow at Zwartkops and Laserfiche Vereeniging and likely once at iDube in KwaZulu Natal.

For more information on Super Rok DVS karting, contact Riccardo Stermin at 083 675 2057 or

BACK TO ROOTS. Local karting will boast a new, much more affordable class this year, with all competitors drawing identical engines out of a hat at every race meeting.