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Champions electric kart!

This weekend, an event will attract the attention of thousands of racing fans: the first ERDF Masters Kart Paris-Bercy. The sporty concept is not new as it was in 1993 that took place the very first competition karting inside this enclosure even the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy.

This year the the duel between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost had attention and launches around the world the concept of karting tracks interieures. But we then was with conventional karts, a petrol engine.

This year, the event of Paris is recovery after several years of interruption, with 100% electric karts. A small revolution because if the electric karting already existed on some tracks in Europe, Japan, the United States (in Las Vegas) and the Caribbean, this is the first time that we will see in action machines built specifically for high-level competition.

The very powerful then, and drivers that are equally karts Sebastien Loeb, Sebastien Bourdais, Adrian Sutil, Robert Wickens (Canadian champion driver in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2011), Paul Di Resta, Gary Paffett, Sebastien Ogier and many Others will be on track. Another race meet as young kart racers, to which was inviting the Canadian Lance Stroll.

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