Aussie Calleja ready for winner-takes-all world championship weekend
The biggest weekend in karting is here, with nearly 200 drivers descending on south-east Italy for the FIA Karting World Championship.
This weekend marks the pinnacle of the international karting year for Australians, as they compete in the FIA Karting World Championship finals at the World Circuit La Conca in Muro Leccese, Italy. A total of nearly 200 drivers from around the globe have qualified for the event, with three Australians set to make their mark. William Calleja, Jenson Burns, and Chris Lowe will all vie for the title in the OK class, while Australian-born racer Ava Jean Lawrence competes in the OK-Junior division.
Calleja enters the championship with a strong chance of victory, having finished fourth in the European Karting Championship and secured a win in the final round, where he was fastest in qualifying. The Australian racer expressed excitement about competing at this high level of motorsport and emphasized the mental challenge of Sunday's final race.
Burns, a 16-year-old racer from the Gold Coast, secured a top-26 finish in the OK-N karting class at the FIA World Cup. Lowe, from Melbourne, won a Victorian state title at his home track last year. Ava Jean Lawrence, racing under an Emirati licence, is an Australian driver on the rise, having been signed to the Aston Martin F1 Academy program earlier this year.
The weekend's racing begins on Friday, with drivers competing in qualifying sessions and heats to advance to Sunday's championship race.
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