The new Seven L8 Jr for the KZ Junior, single-brand Birel Art-Seven, photographed next to a KZ 125: note how the 80 cc engine looks like a KZ in scale
The idea of mounting an engine with a gearbox on a mini-kart is certainly not new and, in the past, people have already done so. Today, to create a new category in a sector already scourged by an excessive fragmentation of the driver park, as it is in national karting, could be considered useless, but the idea of a Mini KZ may instead represent a turning point, that innovation that always makes good in the world of motorsport. We were almost on the verge of creating – we, yes, us at Vroom -a mini-car with a Minarelli AM 6 or Derbi EBE 6-speed motorbike-derived engine when we heard from the “radio box” that at Seven they were ready to launch a new single-brand class in collaboration with Birel Art using a new 80 cc 6-speed engine. The concept from which this project starts is extremely simple: if at 15, young drivers can already compete with cars, why not prepare them for making the jump by training them with a kart equipped with a gearbox, moreover at the steering wheel?