Karting
Kart racing or karting is a road racing variant of motorsport with open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on f ...
at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...
was held on 13 October. The events took place at the Kartodromo in the
Autodromo Juan y Oscar Galvez in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The exhibition event was part of the
Youth Olympics with the intention that the activity is part of the
2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...
in
Paris. All electric karting were piloted by men and women.
Six teams - each run by a boy and girl - participated in the event with a practice and qualifying session scheduled ahead of the race. The pair of
Franco Colapinto
Franco Alejandro Colapinto (born 27 May 2003) is an Argentine-Italian racing driver who is due to compete in FIA Formula 3 for MP Motorsport. He is the 2019 F4 Spanish champion and a race winner in the European Le Mans Series. He is a member of ...
and María García Puig won the race from pole position.
Event
The karting event was presented at the
Green Park, by the president of
FIA Jean Todt, the president of the
IOC
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
Thomas Bach, on October 4, the president of Argentine Olympic Committee
Gerardo Werthein, and 2018 Youth Olympic Games CEO
Leandro Larrosa Leandro may refer to:
* Leandro (given name), a male name, including a list of people with the name
* '' Ero e Leandro'', a 1707 cantata by George Frideric Handel
* San Leandro, California
* San Leandro Creek
See also
*Leandra (disambiguation) L ...
, hosted by Argentine bilingual
motorsport
Motorsport, motorsports or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles. The terminology can also be used to describe forms of competition of two ...
and football commentator
Francisco Aure
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...
.
The event was presented within the program 3500LIVES of the FIA.
Results
References
External links
* http://www.e-kart.com.ar/NoticiasDet.asp?Param=18049&Op=805
* http://carburando.com/notas/argentina-en-un-momento-historico-del-automovilismo-mundial
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2018 Summer Youth Olympics events