Marco Ardigo

May 28, 2008 Top drivers to compete at Varennes in French Championship Final

Varennes will see the major Italian official teams returning to France to prepare for the KZ1 World Cup. Tony Kart's pilots Matias Laine, David Gaggianesi, Andrea Benedetti and World Champion Marco Ardigo will race in the 125 gearbox category. CRG is equally well represented with Alessandro Manetti, Arnaud Kozlinski and Jonathan Thonon, winner of the 2007 World Cup. Armand Convers will come back to France with PCR, while Florian Alfano will race for Gillard and ...

April 6, 2008 Parrott wins in the snow at Angerville

The winners were Marco Ardigo in KZ2, Mackenzie Taylor in KF3 and Jason Parrott in KF1. More updates to come later this evening, and otherwise the full results are at WSKarting.com.

December 16, 2007 Ardigo and Barrabeig win in Macau

The results at Macau are in and Marco can add the Asia-Pacific Championship to his credit. Second place went to the new [Tonykart] recruit [Matias Laine] who also had the fastest lap in the race.

November 19, 2007 Ardigo wins in Las Vegas

Marco Ardigo has won his fifth championship of the year (on three different continents) with a win by three seconds over Gary Carlton in SuperPro (KZ1) yesterday at the SKUSA SuperNationals XI.

November 13, 2007 Ardigo to race at SKUSA SuperNationals

Tonykart's Marco Ardigo will race in the SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas this weekend, the first time the reigning World Champion has competed in the USA's biggest one-off race. He will race in Super Pro, which is based on KZ1, and his team mates will be Tonykart USA's Wesley Boswell and Danilo Dirani.

September 26, 2007 Italian KZ2 title confirmed for unstoppable Ardigo

World Champion Marco Ardigo has just been confirmed as the 2007 Open Masters KZ2 champion . The delay since the last round in July has been due to queries over mechanical assistance received - I don't know all the details but I will update when I see an English translation. Ardigo finished up 15 points ahead of Monza's Manuel Cozzaglio.

September 25, 2007 World Championship for Ardigo at last

Tipped to win, Marco Ardigo and the Tony-Kart team confirmed the forecast by markedly dominating the first Karting World Championship of the new “KF” engines era. On the Belgian circuit of Mariembourg invaded by a crowd estimated at 8,000 spectators the experienced Italian driver was never really challenged, except by his own team-mate, the Briton Gary Catt, who achieved the fastest practice time and was the provisional leader after the ...

September 24, 2007 World Championship Gallery

September 23, 2007 Ardigo is World Champion!

Marco Ardigo (Tony/Vortex) got away from the field from pole and won by 1.368s. Gary Catt (Tony/Vortex) was catching Ardigo for first ten laps. Nikolaj Bollingtoft (Kosmic/Vortex) Anthony Abbasse (Sodi/Parilla) started 29th after going out early on in the Prefinal, therefore had some decent tyres. Benjamin Bailly (Kosmic/Vortex) Alban Varutti (Sodi/Parilla) was very sstrong at the start. Davide Fore (Maranello/Parilla) also started a way down. Sauro Cesetti (Birel/Parilla) possibly had a trick new chassis. Alessandro Bressan (Kosmic/Vortex) Jason Parrott (Birel/Parilla) was running sixth but ...