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Now even the F1 drivers say so: Karting costs too much!

Once upon a time there was Ayrton Senna “da Silva”, a driver who, even when he had been in the Olympus of Formula 1 for a long time, never had to be begged to talk about karting – on the contrary, he’d highlight without half measures how much these karts were formative and adrenalinic. And adding that Terry Fullerton and Mike Wilson were among his career’s greatest antagonists and rivals. Those were times when the propaedeutic role of karting, as a formative base for the career of future champions, was not at all in question.

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