MARKAS SIGNS WITH CRG FACTORY TEAM FOR 2024

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We are pleased to announce a change of jersey for Markas Silkunas, he leaves Gamoto to join CRG Factory Team. After an excellent 2023 with a 3rd place in the FIA Academy and the victory of the Lithuanian Championship, Markas has finally earned entry into a factory team where he will participate in all of the most important Championships, such as the WSK, Champions of the Future, CIK FIA European and CIK FIA World Championship.

Giovanni Minardi: “I am very happy to have managed to bring Markas to CRG, because they have great material for the OK category where he will compete, as well as having very experienced and fast drivers who will be able to help him grow quickly. I’m sure we can do great things.”

Markas Silkunas: “I am very happy that i have this great opportunity to join CRG factory team. I hope i will have a great relationship with all staff and teammates, which will help me to achieve great results with the new chassis. Thank you for all support from my family and Minardi Management. I will do my best!”

Giancarlo Tinini: “We welcome Markas to the team. We are ready to integrate him into our team, where the exchange between our champions is constant. We had the opportunity to observe him and follow his career, we are happy to participate in the project of his growth and we are sure that we can work well together!”

KAIS AZIZA CONTINUES WITH GAMOTO

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Kaïs Aziza’s 2024 season starts with the renewal with Team Gamoto. The Swiss driver has decided to continue the partnership with the Sicilian team, after an excellent second part of the season 2023 together, to aim the victory in the Italian ACI Karting Championship and top positions in WSK races in the OKNJ category.

Giovanni Minardi: “I can’t wait to see Kaïs back on track, I see him fired up and 150% motivated and I’m sure that the 2024 season will be his consecration as a fast and very talented driver. We all should never forget that Kaïs has only 5 races under his belt in the Mini category, 5 races in the OKNj and 2 in the X30 Junior. Despite his lack of experience in the international karting scene, he has always performed incredibly strong in all races at which he has participated. Now in 2024, the time has come to climb to the top step of the podium.”

Kaïs Aziza: “2023 was a big lessons for me, after not even a year in international races, I was able to obtain very good results.
Next year I am happy to continue the adventure with Gamoto, Dorothea and Giovanni. A big thank you to my family, my sponsors and everyone who believed in me”.

Salvatore Gatto: ”We are extremely happy that Kaïs Aziza has reconfirmed the collaboration with the Gamoto team for the 2024 season!
We all believe in Kaïs’ talent and potential and we are certain we can achieve important results!!
Special thanks go to Kaïs’ family and Giovanni Minardi (Minardi Management) for their trust! Thank you!”

VILLORBA CORSE AND PUJATTI TOGETHER AT THE START OF THE PORSCHE CARRERA CUP 2024

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For the new season of the Italian single-brand championship, the Venetian team announces the young driver from Pordenone, who at just 16 years old makes his debut in motor racing at the wheel of the 510 horsepower 911 GT3 Cup branded Centro Porsche Treviso: “Happy with the path undertaken, confident for the future ”.

Treviso, 21 December 2023. Scuderia Villorba Corse has made official the first driver who will be the protagonist with the multi-titled Venetian team in the 2024 Porsche Carrera Cup Italia at the wheel of the 911 GT3 Cup fielded in partnership with the Centro Porsche Treviso. It is Nicholas Pujatti, a very young driver from Pordenone, who from his promising past in karting has prepared the big leap into car racing, in which he will be making his absolute debut.

Born in 2007, he just turned 16 last December 13th, the Friulian rookie will line up at the start together with the Treviso team with the awareness of accepting the demanding challenge in one of the most competitive championships and with one of the most iconic cars. Based on the “992” model, at the forefront of technology and capable of delivering up to 510 horsepower of maximum power, Pujatti has already tested the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup by carrying out track tests during 2023, thanks to which he was able to take the first references precisely in view of the season that will mark the beginning of his automotive career

Villorba Corse team principal Raimondo Amadio declares: “Personally and for the team, welcoming Nicholas into the team competing in the Carrera Cup Italia is a great source of motivation. With this choice we assume an important responsibility in training a driver and a boy who will be able to draw many ideas in sport and competition, also for personal growth. We will do everything possible and beyond to ensure that we can find an immediate feeling, useful for setting up a fruitful work of growth and learning to do well in a championship that is increasingly characterized by the high level of competition and professionalism, in on and off the track.”

Nicholas Pujatti continues: “I am thrilled to be able to announce my participation in 2024 in a championship at the level of the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia with the Treviso Villorba Corse team. It’s an honor for me to be able to compete with drivers of that caliber and it’s even more of an honor to drive a Porsche. I am very happy with the path we have taken to get to this point and I am confident for next year. I would like to thank everyone who made it possible for what is a dream for me to come true, all my sponsors, my manager Giovanni Minardi, my entire family (especially my brother) and my coach Gabriele Lancieri”.

Giovanni Minardi concludes: “I can’t wait to see Nicholas compete together with the other drivers, because during the tests carried out in 2023 he showed his speed from the first lap and above all his excellent learning. I am very curious and confident. The championship is very difficult, both for the powerful car and for the many expert drivers present, but I am sure that together with the Villorba Corse team we will be able to obtain good results from the first season on.”

The 2024 Carrera Cup Italia is divided into six rounds (each weekend with two races of 30 minutes + 1 lap) and after the debut in May in Misano it will visit the circuits of Imola, Mugello, again Imola and Vallelunga to end on 6 October in Monza.

Porsche CCI 2024 calendar: 11/4 Imola (official test); 5/5 Misano; 2/6 Imola; 14/7 Mugello; 8/9 Imola; 22/9 Vallelunga; 6/10 Monza

FRANÇOIS KERDAL CONTINUES WITH CRG IN 2024

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François Kerdal continues his karting career for the 2024 season in CRG.
The 2024 program will be full and tight of commitments between tests and races. François will participate at the most important karting races in Europe like WSK, Champions of the Future, CIK FIA European and CIK FIA World Champions as well as some trophies.

Giovanni Minardi: “After an excellent end of the season for François in CRG, I strongly wanted him to stay and to continue his growth in the team from Lonato. I am sure that we will be able to achieve excellent goals for next season. François immediately had a great feeling with their material right from the first laps, as well as with the whole team and so why we should change. We will begin from a very good starting point and will push all together for the best results possible.”

François Kerdal: “I am thrilled and delighted to continue racing with CRG, be part of this amazing team and keep setting and achieving new targets together also in the year to come. I feel proud in CRG colours and I am looking forward to see what the next season will bring!”

Giancarlo Tinini: “During the 2023 season we had the opportunity to share part of the calendar with Francois, who undoubtedly stood out for his driving skills and also for his human ones; he shows great intelligence when leading the race and we know that the 2024 season will be full of great satisfaction for both of us.”

GUIRRERI WILL PARTECIPATE IN THE PORSCHE SPRINT CHALLENGE SOUTHERN EUROPE

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We are pleased to announce that our driver Giuseppe Guirreri will start the 2024 season by participating in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Southern Europe Championship, with Raptor Engineering Team of Andrea Palma.
The Championship takes place in 4 races between Portugal and Spain on very important circuits such as Portimao on 01/20, Estoril on 02/03. Valencia on 24/02 and finally Barcelona on 02/03.

Giovanni Minardi: “This mini Championship of 4 races will be a way for Giuseppe to train and prepare as best as possible for his main program which will be the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia. I am convinced that if he works as he did in the last tests at the end of the year, we will be able to be competitive straight away and get some great satisfaction.”

Giuseppe Guirreri: “I can’t wait to start the new season. The first goal of the year will be to participate in the Porsche Sprint Challenge Southern Europe Championship. My expectations are very high and I hope I can meet them. We are aiming to win the Championship.”

Andrea Palma: “We returned from the last tests at the end of 2023 making important steps forward for Giuseppe. He is a young driver who knows how to listen and applies himself on the track and we are sure that his second season in Porsche will be a continuous growth. We start with enthusiasm from the winter series, an excellent ‘training’ in view of the main program. Raptor Engineering has never stopped and will continue to support its young driver with maximum commitment”.

ACHILLE REA CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURE IN TONY KART ALSO FOR 2024

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We are pleased to announce that the driver Achille Rea will also be an official driver of the Tony Kart Racing Team in the Mini category in the 2024 season. The Frosinone standard-bearer will be busy full time in 2024, with a busy schedule of races.
He will participate in all the WSK races, the Italian Kart Championship, the Trofeo delle Industrie and the Margutti Trophy.
It will certainly be an intense year for Achille and we hope it will be full of success.

Giovanni Minardi: “I am extremely happy to have reached this agreement and I thank Mr. Robazzi and his daughter Erica for giving us this opportunity, in order to give continuity in Achille’s growth, as a driver and as a young boy internally in the Tony Kart family. I think it’s the best place for him to be, because there are so many people full of experience who can only help him grow in the right way.
I am convinced that it is the right choice for him and at the same time I am certain that Achille will be one of the drivers to beat next season.”

Achille Rea: “I am very happy to be able to continue my journey in Tony Kart for 2024 and I can’t wait to be part of the green army again and give my best for this team next season.”

VANESA SILKUNAITE WINS THE FIA GIRLS ON TRACK EDITION 2023 IN JUNIOR

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Minardi Management proudly announces that our young girl Vanesa Silkunaite could win the FIA Girls on Track 2023 – Rising Stars in the Junior category. A dream is coming true for Vanesa and for sure she will certainly have the opportunity to participate in the season 2024 in the major and most important Karting Championships worldwide such as the Champions of the Future (RGMMC), the European CIK FIA and the CIK FIA World Championship.

Giovanni Minardi: “I am really proud of Vanesa, after all the sacrifies she made in this long 2023 season, and at the end she could manage to achieve the most important goal and win the most important selection for girls at her age in the Motorsport. She worked so hard both, on the track and in the gym, day after day for the whole season, and deserves this victory more than anyone else.
Vanesa has always shown that she has speed in her veins and I’m happy to finally see that we were right and that also FIA, FDA and the ACI Federation School confirm this.
The opportunity to work in a top team, with people with very high experience, will give Vanesa the opportunity to grow a lot and I am convinced that she will achieve very important goals. Unbelievable proud of this young lady!”

MINARDI MANAGEMENT INCREASES THE GIRL POWER WITH JULIA ANGELARD

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We are pleased to announce the entry into the Minardi Management family of another girl, the eleven-year-old Julia Angelard, from Poland.

Next season Julia will participate as the main program at the Italian OKJN Championship and in preparation she will do some races at the beginning of the year most probably in the WSK Championship, in the same category, as training before embarking on the adventure of the Italian Championship.

Giovanni Minardi: Julia’s entry represents another important and beautiful challenge for Minardi Management. We will work hard to bring Julia to the highest levels of Motorsport, because we are convinced, following the actual tendences in the world of Motorsport, that girls will give an unplus value to this mainly male sport, even more girls like Julia, who has all the characteristics and the talent to do well.

Julia Angelard: Thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the Minardi Management family! Excited to accelerate my journey in karting with their incredible support and expertise.
Grateful for this opportunity and ready to hit the track with full throttle!

MATTIA BUCCI CLINCHED HIS MAIDEN CAREER WIN IN SINGLE-SEATERS AT MISANO ADRIATICO

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He stood on the podium twice in this “Formula X Italian Series” round, winning Race 2, which marked his first triumph in car racing

The last race of Mattia Bucci‘s sports season in “Formula X Italian Series”, specifically in the “FX Pro Series” category, is over. The event took place at Misano Adriatico where he achieved the best possible result, conquering his first win in single-seaters and sealing a round that saw him as a protagonist.

Despite uncertain weather conditions on Friday, with rain briefly affecting the circuit, the driver from Abruzzo quickly established himself at the top of the leaderboard: he secured third place in the first Free Practice session and set the fastest time in the second session. During Qualifying, he recorded the third-best lap time of the day after a close battle for Pole Position, which eluded him due to traffic on track.

On Saturday, the young talent from Catignano returned to the podium, finishing third in Race 1. Although he initially secured second place in the early stages of the race, he later lost it. The magic happened in Race 2 on Sunday: starting from the fourth position on the grid, Bucci wasted no time in gaining a crucial second position, which he converted into a victory thanks to a penalty imposed on the driver ahead of him. This triumph was the result of his exemplary performance on the track.

Mattia Bucci expressed his thoughts on this significant result, stating: “This win is very important for me and my family, as it represents the culmination of our sacrifices. I don’t know how to describe this feeling, i’m incredulous! I never expected to achieve such a result in only my third career round in car racing. With a total of three podium finishes in 2023, we established a solid foundation to build upon in 2024. I want to dedicate this success to my family, my manager Giovanni Minardi and Minardi Management, Sandro Giuliani and the entire SG Motors team, my staff and sponsors and i want to thank all those who have supported me throughout me journey. I will immediately begin working for next year.”

Matteo Gaudieri
Press Officer Mattia Bucci

VLADIMIR IVANNIKOV CHANGE TEAM

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Amazing news are coming ahead…
Vladimir Ivannikov changes the team, and will switch from Team Gamoto to the official Energy Corse Team, powered by Machac Motors.
In the last two days Vladimir already worked on track with his new team Energy Corse Racing Team to test the new material between the two most important tracks, Lonato and Franciacorta, until the end of the season 2023. Vladimir immediately adapted to the new material and showed already great improvements lap after lap. The team, we as his management and also Vladimir and his family were all extremely satisfied after these test days and sure about the decision we all made together. In the next two weeks he will participate in the last two WSK events, the Final Cup, in preparation for the new season already with his new team.
In 2024, Vladimir’s schedule will be very tight, he will participate in all WSK, RGMMC, CIK FIA European and World races, as well as other races around Europe and beyond.

Giovanni Minardi: “I am very happy for Vladimir to have reached this agreement with Michele Panigada and his team. I’m sure we can do great things together and obtain amazing results. I have to thank a lot to Machac Motors for their support and help they have given us and will give us throughout the next season.”

Vladimir Ivannikov: “In the last two days I’ve done a few tests with my new team Energy Corse Racing Team, and I’m really satisfied with the feeling with the new chassis and we are very positive looking forward for the next races. I see this change of team as a huge opportunity for my personal and sportive growth and I am excited to start racing under the colors of my new team for great results, victories and trophies in OKJ category.
A special thanks to my manager, Giovanni Minardi which fought so much in the last months to obtain the best sportive opportunity for me”.