BY MAURIZIO VOLTINI
With 2020, the Cik will reunify the 60 class under a single international regulation, designed to standardize the various national regulations and avoid differences that can complicate life for the participants. Let’s think for example of an Austrian driver who wanted to race in the WSK, as well as perhaps some other Italian and German race: he would need at least two different karts. Starting next year, instead, being proposed is the new “single regulation” launched by the Cik / Fia that will be a reference for all, except for the fraction of time needed for the individual federations to adapt and make the 60 national classes expire. This is the case for Italy, for example: the Italian 60 Minikart is homologated until the end of 2020 and, therefore, it can continue to run for another year. However, it is obvious that they are trying to understand how to best face or deal with the transition, considering that the Italian drivers who run in the WSK (which, being races on the international calendar, shall adopt the 60 Cik class) would obviously like to be able to do national races as well. The problem is that frames and engines approved for the two 60 classes, the national Minikart and the Mini Cik, are not identical, except in some small instances.