2026 in international kart racing
65th season of international kart racing
2026 is the 65th season of international kart racing since the founding of the Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK-FIA) in 1962. The season is scheduled to see drivers and manufacturers contest 37 international championships in 11 CIK-FIA classes, as well as 18 in the Rotax Max Challenge (RMC) and four in the IAME Series, across 54 events in 18 countries. The CIK-FIA World Championship is set to be held in three classes: OK, OK-J, and KZ.
The season is set to see the return of the CIK-FIA Asia-Pacific Championship and the CIK-FIA South American Championship in the arrive-and-drive classes, as well as the creation of a new CIK-FIA European Championship. The CIK-FIA season opened with the WSK Super Master Series on 21 January and is due to conclude with the final round of the Champions of the Future Academy Program in OK-N and OKN-J on 2 December.
The CIK-FIA European Champions were Émilien Denner (KZ) and Kimi Tani (KZ2). In the CIK-FIA classes, Maksim Orlov has won two titles in KZ2, while Lev Krutogolov (OK), Qarrar Firhand (OK), Antônio Pizzonia Neto (OK-J), Zdeněk Bábíček (OK-J), and Émilien Denner (KZ) have each won one title in their respective categories. In the RMC, Antoine Barbaroux (DD2), Macauley Bishop (Senior Max), and Bábíček (Junior Max) have each won titles; in the IAME Series, Aaron García (X30-S) and Ivan González (X30-J) have been victorious.
Background
Kart racing originated on the streets of California, United States, in 1956. The Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK-FIA) was founded in 1962 to govern international kart racing. It soon founded the World Championship (1964), the European Championship (1970), and the Asian Open Championship (1976)—later known as the Asia-Pacific Championship—before establishing distinct engine classes in 1981.
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