Kari Motor Speedway is all set to host the penultimate round of the JK Tyre Rotax Max Karting Challenge 2007 this weekend. With very few points separating leaders in both the senior and junior categories, the championship is still wide open, and the weekend promises a series of close encounters. The qualifying sessions will be held on Saturday, 18 ^th August and the main races on Sunday, 19^th August. 

The championship standings at the end of Round 3, Mumbai racer Ameya Walavalkar heads the table in the Senior category having amassed 215.5 points followed very closely by Chennai lad Aditya Patel with 207.5 points. Rayomand Banajee from Pune is in 3^rd place with 205 points.

As for the Junior Category, Kolhapur lads Chittesh Mandody and Parth Ghorpade lead the charts with a tally of 126.5 and 124 points respectively. Chennai lad Vishnu Prasad is in 3rd place with 121.5 points.

Now into its consecutive fourth year this event has generated excellent response over the last three years. The JK Tyre Rotax Max Karting Challenge, organized by Meco Motorsports Pvt. Ltd., one of the karting events in the country, is a part of the long term JK Tyre Racing Programme. The championship has been conceived to provide a platform to karters to develop racing skills with high speed in the first year of single seater racing, with karts equipped with the world famous 2 stroke Rotax Max kart engines.

The JK Tyre Rotax Mojo Max Karting Challenge has emerged the preferred choice for professional karters to develop their karting careers. India's Armaan Ebrahim and JK Tyre current brand ambassador, started his career with the Rotax Max format and went on to win the Asian and Indian championships, before moving on to bigger achievements in the Formula BMW, Formula Renault UK, A1 GP and Formula Renault V6 Championships.

JK Tyre and Rotax has also been supporting the winners of the junior and senior category on international platforms i.e. for the Rotax Max World Finals in Dubai this year. The same will provide Indian karters an opportunity to compete against the best karters in the world with more than 160 karters across 37 countries participating in the championship.