JULIA ANGELARD READY FOR KARTING COMPETITIONS IN 2025

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  • In early February, the ROK Cup Winter Trophy 2025 will take place at the South Garda Karting track in Lonato.
  • Among the competitors who will represent Poland at this prestigious karting competition, Julia Angelard, driving for JSTR by Jastrzębski Racing, will also appear.
  • Julia’s goal is to achieve the best possible result and a solid start to the 2025 season, which she will spend in the Polish Karting Championship, ROK Cup Italia and the Champions of the Future Academy series.

The South Garda Karting track in Lonato is one of the most famous and popular karting tracks in the world. It is here, on Lake Garda, that many competitions of various karting series take place every year – both ROK Cup Italia, WSK and ROK Superfinal. There is not a day that this facility is not besieged by competitors testing their skills on Italian soil. There are also several karting factories nearby, which additionally increases the attractiveness of the track – factory teams often come here to test drivers or equipment. However, at the beginning of February, the cream of the crop of karting drivers from around the world will appear on the track, and the reason is obvious – the competition as part of the ROK Cup Winter Trophy 2025.

Winter Trophy at the beginning of the season
ROK Cup Winter Trophy 2025 is a single, winter round, organized annually before the start of the ROK Cup Italia season. This is one of the most important moments for competitors, allowing them to really test themselves on the track before the start of the competition in a given year. The two-day competition in the ROK Junior category is full of practice sessions, 6-minute qualifying sessions and heats, or qualifying races over a distance of 8 laps. The 36 best competitors on the last day take part in the final races over a distance of 16 laps.

Competitors taking part in the 2025 ROK Cup Winter Trophy will compete in seven categories. In addition to ROK Junior, in which Julia Angelard, who is under the care of Minardi Management, will also be present in the Mini ROK, Mini ROK U10, Senior ROK, Super ROK, Expert ROK and Shifter ROK categories.

Give it your all
“I am very excited about the upcoming start at the South Garda Karting track in Lonato. I know this track well and it is one of my favorites. With the right precision, it is easy to overtake here, and the corners are really demanding. My favorite corner is the one «by the mechanics». We haven’t been idle so far and in 2025 alone I already have a few training days behind me on this track. I can’t wait to see what this year’s competition in the Winter Trophy will bring, but I will definitely give it my all”, emphasizes Julia Angelard.

A solid start to the 2025 season
For Julia Angelard, competing in the ROK Cup Winter Trophy will be just the first point on her list of competitions this year in which she will take part. The nearly 13-year-old competitor will also appear in the Polish Karting Championship, will start in all races of the ROK Cup Italia 2025 season and will debut in the Champions Of The Future Academy series, which allows competitors to be noticed by the F1 Academy, and thus by Formula 1 teams looking for juniors worthy of care and a training program.

In two weeks, the Minardi Management protégé will have another opportunity to compete on the track in Lonato – the third round of the WSK Super Master Series. From there she will move directly to Portimão for the first round of the Champions of the Future Academy.

JULIA ANGELARD, a nearly 13-year-old karting competitor, a protégé of Minardi Management, a member of the PZM junior national karting team in the 2025 season. Representing the colors of JSTR by Jastrzębski Racing, in the 2025 season she will compete in the Polish Karting Championships, in the Italian ROK Cup Italy series and in the international Champions of the Future Academy program, supported by F1 Academy – a series accompanying Formula 1. In July 2024, she was the only Polish woman to be among the 20 competitors who appeared in the Iron Dames Young Talents shootout finals.

She began competing in karting at the age of 4. She began her professional starts in the Rotax Max Challenge Poland series in the years 2017-2022 in the MicroMax and Minimax categories. In 2023, at the age of 11, she started in the ROK Cup Poland in the Junior category. In September 2023, she made her international debut as part of the ROK Superfinal and ROK Cup Italia, where she also appeared in 2024, becoming the fastest and highest ranked competitor and advancing 17 positions in one of the races.

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Przemysław Garczyński