INQUIRER Sports

THE RP TEAM competes against the world’s top karting nations when the CIK-FIA World Karting Championships roar off on Oct. 8 to 11 at the Kartodromo de Coloane Circuit in Macau.

Three big events—World Karting Championship, Asia Pacific KF3 Championship and the fourth leg of the Asian Karting Open Championship—form part of the 10th anniversary of the Macau Special Administrative Region.

Juha Turalba of Ready2Race will banner the RP quest as he seeks the AKO crown. He leads the Formula 125 Open Seniors.

Backing him up are Jet Racing’s Javi Benitez and John Alvarez, and Michael Vaughn Fox.

Among the other favorites are Joey Orduna, Roby Benito, Franco Reyes, Christian Gaddi, Basti Escalante, Jette Calderon, Indonesian Denzel Sofyan, Yasuo Senna Iriawan and Perdana Putra Minang.