7,000 children, one British F4 seat: The karting league tearing up motorsport’s money problem
SPECIAL REPORT: FAT Karting League offers entry seats with a 95% discount. This weekend, a 16-year-old from Chicago makes his fully-funded British F4 debut. And the series has one fundamental target: dismantling motorsport’s old order.
Kieran Jackson reports
Arriving at the antiquated site of Shenington Kart Racing Club in rural Oxfordshire, conditions are decidedly sketchy. Early February, gloomy overheads, and a full unleashing of downpours. But four teenagers, plucked from 7,000, are unperturbed.
“What do you make of the UK? ” I ask Jackson Wolny, a 16-year-old floppy-haired karter from Glen Ellyn, a village on the suburbs of Chicago. “Wet,” he laughs.
“Very wet. ” Yet it’s in this toughest of climates where Wolny and three others – two from the UK, one more from the US – start their six-day boot-camp to decide who will be FAT Racing’s first recipient of a British Formula 4 seat in 2026. And most uniquely, in the elitist, expensive and often nepotistic ecosystem of grassroots motorsport , it will be fully funded.
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