The Karting World Championship is ruled by the CIK-FIA. It takes place once a year, each year in a different country, and is kart racing flagship event.

In the last few years the World Championship was raced with 100 cc Formula A karts. In 2007, the change in regulations introduced the KF1, 125 cc karts equipped with electric starter, clutch and rpm limiter set at 16,000 rpm, to replace Formula A.

2007 Italian Marco Ardigó

2006 Italian Davide Forè

2005 United Kingdom’s Oliver Oakes

2004 Italian Davide Forè

Hydrogen Go-Kart Breaks Land Speed Record

The Ford 999 setting the world land-speed record for production hydrogen cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a top end of 207.297 mph.

At the same venue, the Ohio Buckeye Bullet 2 set the American land-speed record for a hydrogen fuel cell racecar by powering to 149 mph.

At a Formula Zero competition at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, driver Bo Ridder blasted his hydrogen go-kart to a new world record for its class on the 1/8 mile track by going the length in 11.591 seconds. This was 3/10th of a second faster than the previous record. The Formula Zero go-kart also achieved a top speed of 75 mph on the track.