Go - Karting To Fitness

With limitations on testing, Supercars drivers are increasingly going back to their go-karting roots to keep race fit.

It’s almost impossible to name a driver on the current Virgin Australia Supercars Champion-ship grid who didn’t begin their motorsport careers in go-karting.

Take, for example, the 2010 Supercars champion James Courtney, who excelled in karting in his formative years.

He won two world titles in 1995 and 1997 and remains the only Australian to clinch a World Karting Championship, a feat which earned him a place in the CAMS Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame for his gokarting achievements rather than his Supercars title.

“Karting is the foundation for all motor racing,” says Courtney.

“I look back on my karting days very fondly, which is why I’m still involved through my JC Kart brand.”