Zimbabwe: The most exciting and prestigious seven companies in Zimbabwe went to Kart Track at the National Sports Stadium in Harare on Saturday, Feb 24, 2024. They went there to compete in the first round of the inaugural Ducacrete one-hour endurance kart race.
The seven companies will compete against each other in more than one-hour races for the Duracrete Endurance Championship. Three Duracrete, sponsored the titles of the series, entries made by the teams such as Driptech, Touch Motors, CarTrack, Harden, Spraytech and Pitstop.
As per the sources, 35 drivers have participated in the inaugural of Duracrete company endurance challenge.
The teams picked up the karts for the race in the morning and each team took to the track for a combined practice and qualifying session.
Reportedly, each team had to make a minimum of four pitstops and four joker laps, during the race. Whereas, Team Harden was the pole sitter for the start of the race.
The Joker laps were slightly longer laps that took a little longer but might have extricated a kart from racing in traffic and could have given a tactical advantage if chosen at the right time.
Moreover, every team member had to drive for a minimum of five minutes and each team had a minimum of four drivers.
After racing for one hour, Team Harden took the checkered flag, which was followed by Team Duracrete and Team Pitstop.
Notably, all seven karts crossed the finish line within four seconds of each other and a close finish after racing for one hour.
The Pole Position Karts’ focus is on bringing karting to Harare in a big way. Their vision, ‘Pyramid of Progression’ mainly focuses on providing karting opportunities to youngsters as young as six right through karting in international races.
It aims to provide opportunities through leisure karting for those who want to participate in rental karting for fun.
One of the race organisers – Kevin Dufty said that the aim is to offer the opportunity to come karting to as many people as possible. Anyone over eight and taller than 1.3m can come to one of the venues and drive a rental kart for as little as six dollars.
He also mentioned that they have tracks in Eastlea and at the National Sports Stadium registered with the Sports and Recreation Commission to help them realise their vision.
“We are open from Wednesday to Sunday for leisure rental Karts,” said Kevin Dufty.
Dufty added that the track is host to Kart Sports Club, who last year saw member TK Mapiro racing in the ROK Cup World Championship in Italy and five Zimbabwean Karters, racing in the inaugural African Karting Cup, a continental race meeting held in South Africa earlier in February.