Gunskirchen, Austria, December 17th, 2020 – BRP-Rotax together with Kartmore Racing Service, currently the Rotax authorized distributor for Malaysia, would like to inform that they have decided to hand-over the distributorship by December 31st, 2020.

The last day of the 2020 Rotax MAX Challenge International Trophy was rich in spectacle and twists on the Kartódromo Internacional do Algarve. Fought at 100% intensity on a dry track and in mixed conditions, the Finals showed the extraordinary competitiveness of the Rotax categories with top level participants coming from all over the world, despite a not particularly favourable health situation, before rewarding the big winners.

Gunskirchen, Austria, December 15th, 2020 – BRP-Rotax is excited to announce that the com-pany Murray Motorsport has been appointed as the authorized distributor for the Republic of Ire-land for Rotax karting products as of January 01, 2021.

On the occasion of the 100 anniversary of Rotax, we have - in cooperation with the Vroom magazine - produced a two part article about the history of Rotax and Karting @ Rotax. The articles were published in the October and November issues 2020 of Vroom International. Read the full articles here.

Gunskirchen, Austria, December 02nd, 2020 – BRP-Rotax is excited to announce a new con-sistent platform to unify the Rotax karting brand representation in the USA with: RaceRotax. This initiative is the next step in our program to grow the Rotax karting activities in USA by giv-ing a single platform to all our US customers.

Gunskirchen, Austria, November 26th, 2020 – BRP-Rotax together with IKD, the Rotax authorized distributor for Australia, would like to inform that IKD has taken the decision to hand-over the distributorship to a new partner.

Gunskirchen, October 28, 2020 - In Terms of the tightened Covid-19 pandemic situtaion all over Europe, the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy has cancelled the final race in Genk from 6th to 8th November, 2020.

Gunskirchen / Adria, October 27th, 2020 – The Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy has heralded the final spurt of the 2020 racing season. The penultimate event of the championship took place on the Adria Karting Raceway, near Venice, from October 23rd to 25th. After stops in Belgium and Ger-many, the race in Italy opened the decisive stage of the four-round series.

October 21, 2020 - This year, the drivers travelled to the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben for the final of the German Electric Kart Championship (DEKM). In the fight for the title, the weather caused a lot of tension again, in the end Diego Stifter and Axel La Flamme won the final races – Luka Wlömer wins the championship title in the third attempt.

The Rotax MAX Challenge Thailand 2020 season started with the first round on 14th and 15th of March, 2020. We were lucky enough to be able to start the season just before the COVID-19 began to spread. Thailand was locked down the following Monday straight after the race.

The opening round of the 2020-2021 UAE Rotax MAX Challenge (RMC) - under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council - took place at Dubai Kartdrome on Friday, 9 October, with drivers eager to perform after the off-season months, exacerbated by the lockdown.

Gunskirchen, Austria, October 1st, 2020 – BRP-Rotax is pleased to announce the Chassis Part-ners for the 2020s Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals. The 21st edition of this prestigious yearly karting event has changed date and location due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic and will take place as already announced in Portimão in Portugal, from January 23rd to 30th, 2021.

Gunskirchen, October 2, 2020 – BRP-Rotax is excited to announce that the Grand Finals 2020, taking place in January 2021 in Portimão, Portugal, will include a Rotax Project E20 E-Kart class to crown the Grand Finals title also in this category. Interested drivers get the unique chance to race against the E-Karting champions that will qualify from the DEKM (German E-Kart championship).

For the third event in the 2020 season, the German Electric Kart Championship (DEKM) was again a guest at the Prokart Raceland Wackersdorf. In alternating weather conditions, guest rider Xen de Ruwe from Slovenia won. In the fight for the title, however, Luka Wlömer took an important step to the top.

Four weeks after the kick-off of the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy in Belgium, the European Rotax racers headed for Germany where the second round of the season was held from September 4th to 6th, 2020. Venue was the Prokart Raceland in Wackersdorf which equally hosted the halfway event of the elite RMC racing format.

Only a week after the season kick-off, the German Electric Kart Championship (DEKM) travelled on to Wackersdorf. Within the framework of the Rotax Max Challenge Euro Trophy, the participants experienced exciting race decisions. Axel La Flamme and Diego Stifter ended up as the winners.

Gunskirchen / Genk, August 12th, 2020 – After a long period of waiting, the Rotax MAX Challenge Euro Trophy finally kicked-off its third season: the Belgian karting track of Genk, the so-called “Home of Champions”, hosted the first of four rounds of the unique European Championship for the various Rotax MAX class competitors.

Gunskirchen, Austria, August, 11th, 2020 – After carefully reviewing the actual situation, BRP-Rotax and Chrono Karting BV have decided to cancel the Micro and Mini MAX Grand Festival 2020 because of the worldwide COVID-19 situation and the restrictions in several countries.

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The 2020 RMC International Trophy will take place from 8th to 13th December, 2020 in Portimao, Portugal.

Gunskirchen, June 10, 2020 – In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and current travel restrictions, BRP-Rotax has decided to postpone the 2020 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals till January 2021, and to change the location to the city of Portimão in Portugal.

Gunskirchen, April 07, 2020 – BRP-Rotax is very pleased to announce the launch of a special event for the worldwide Rotax family, as well as everyone else interested to participate: the first ev-er Rotax SIM RACING Challenge, a virtual reality race on the platform of iRacing.com.

Gunskirchen, Austria, March 31st, 2020 – BRP-Rotax yearly recognizes the efforts of its karting dis-tributors to demonstrate sales achievements linked with operational excellence that lead to strengthen BRP-Rotax’s sales and marketing efforts in respective areas around the world. In times like this when our world changes in increasing pace it is even more important to acknowledge the outstanding work of its partners.

Gunskirchen, February 18, 2020 – Racing Components, the official distributor of BRP-Rotax for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Netherland Antilles announces a new partnership with Kartodromo Cotopaxi for the distribution and development of the Rotax MAX Challenge Championship in Ecuador.