Tony Kart Serial Numbers
I recently purchased a Tony Kart the year of manufacture is in dispute. The details on the frame are: 53/CH/08 and AR90769. I sent an email yesterday to Tony Kart Australia in Victoria but have not received a reply. Can anyone tell me year of manufacture.
Kart chassis identification help?
Hi all! I'm really new here so please go easy on me!
I'm finally about to dip my toes into club kart racing around where I live (North West UK). I've been to many karting race weekends, arrive and drives & tournaments throughout my life and now i'm looking at fulfilling a childhood dream of owning (and racing) my own Kart.
I've spotted a second hand kart (more or less complete package) online and would like some help identifying the manufacturer of the chassis. The seller is selling it on behalf of his brother and guessed at 'Cosmic' when I asked.
Link to image album.
I've done research online and the chassis shape seems to be resembling Birel (red colour and chassis tubing shape). This link gave me that presumption.
I'm planning on viewing it during the week, so any tips on what to look for to identify or just general things to look for would be amazing. Thank you so much guys!
Edit
Through research I was able to find out it is a Venom Sidewinder. I don't know too much about this Kart except it was popular second hand through 2006-2011. I can't find much information about it at all though. Any tips or info you guys could share? Or even any alternative chassis' to look for? TKM Extreme is my class of choice!
Tony Kart is an Italian company (a brand of OTK Kart Group), that produces racing kartchassis. It was founded in 1958 by Antonio 'Tony' Bosio. It is based in Prevalle near Brescia in northern Italy.
Tony Kart chassis have been used to win several races and championships both nationally and internationally. Its drivers have included Formula One stars such as Michael Schumacher,Tony Peslier and Jarno Trulli. Tony Kart's product lines include the Kosmic Kart chassis as well as Exprit, RedSpeed, Trulli (few years ago) and Alonso (FA Kart) chassis. Vortex Engines company is part of the OTK Kart Group line products.
JM Racing of Carson, California introduced the brand in the USA with drivers Alex Barron, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Danica Patrick, Keith Williamson, Scott Speed and Phil Giebler. After a long stint with distributor CompCor in the United States, Tony Kart established its own dealer network, employing well-known drivers such as Keith Spicer, David Jurca and Jason Bowles.
Tony Kart won the 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2006 karting World Championships with driver Davide Fore as well as the 2007 and 2008 titles with Marco Ardigò. With Flavio Camponeschi Tony Kart karts won the CIK-FIA World Championship also in 2012, as well as in 2014, again with Marco Ardigò.in 2018 they won the ok world championship with thomas Schoenmakers