WCKC Round 10 (Reverse) + US Rotax Championships

It was a wet one. Heavy rain, a reverse layout, and cold fall temps turned the final weekend into a test of patience, race craft, and nerves. Grip changed corner to corner. Visibility came and went with the spray. Strategy mattered. So did keeping your head when everyone else was sawing at the wheel.

Below is how it played out for our Scuderia Estoras drivers at WCKC Round 10, followed by a quick hop to New Castle, IN, where the best in the country crowned a US Rotax Champion.

WCKC Round 10 — Reverse Track, Heavy Rain

Why the reverse layout mattered

Running counter to muscle memory changes everything: braking markers feel misplaced, camber bites in new places, and your usual “safe” lines aren’t safe in the wet. The quickest drivers found water where they needed it to keep tires cooler and hunted for off-line grip while staying out of trouble. Easy to say. Hard to deliver for 12 tense laps in the spray.

LO206 Junior — Jack Harbidge

Quali P5 • Pre-Final P5 • Final P5

Jack’s day was a set in calm driving. Fifth in qualifying set the tone. He avoided the early-lap chaos and stayed on track. Three times out, three fifth-place finishes. No heroics, no mistakes—just clean, repeatable speed in treacherous conditions. That is how you finish a season strong.

LO206 Senior — Jack Eriksson

Quali P18 • Pre-Final P18 • Final P13

This was trench warfare. Mid-pack in the rain is a wall of spray and late-braking gambles. Jack spent qualifying and the pre-final learning where the grip lived, then put it to work in the final, chipping forward to P13. The gains came from consistency: stabilize the kart in the brake phase, square the throttle on exit, and pounce when others over-rotate. It wasn’t flashy. It was disciplined. And on a day like this, disciplined earned positions.

LO206 Senior — Massimo Perozzo

Quali P16 • Pre-Final P11 • Final DSQ (weight)

Massimo’s pre-final was the bright spot: a tidy drive to P11 with strong mid-corner rotation in the reverse hairpins. The final had the ingredients for more progress, but a post-race weight infraction brought a DSQ. It stings. Lessons like this stick, and drivers who own them come back sharper.

LO206 Heavy — Patrick Kleine

Quali P6 • Pre-Final P5 • Final P10 (spin)

Patrick looked locked-in. He moved from P6 to P5 in the pre-final with measured passes and confident braking. In the final he moved to P3 right from the start, a patch of standing water under braking tipped the balance and sent him into a spin while fighting for more. Not the finish he wanted, but the speed was real and the approach was right. Sometimes the rain decides the story. Today, it wrote a plot twist.

Stateside Spotlight — US Rotax Championships, New Castle, IN

New Castle did what New Castle does: it gathered the best, threw in tricky, damp conditions for the final, and demanded perfection. Heartbreak and heroics came in equal measure. When it mattered most, one driver put together the complete run.

Congratulations to Oliver Hodgson on Compkart — the 2025 US Rotax Champion.Clinical pace. Controlled aggression. Zero wasted motion. The kind of win that earns respect across the paddock.

Season Wrap for Scuderia Estoras

And that brings the Scuderia Estoras race calendar to a close. The final weekend was a reminder of what motorsport really asks of you: adapt, execute, and keep your cool when the weather and the track conspire against you.

Thank you

To our drivers, families, mechanics, partners, and supporters—thank you. You showed up in the cold, the rain, and the early mornings. You turned wrenches, made setup calls, and believed.

What’s next

The racing pauses, but the work accelerates. Off-season testing. Driver development. Program upgrades. New partners. New opportunities.

Stay tuned. We have exciting announcements coming in the next few weeks. Bigger plans. Higher targets. And a 2026 program built on everything we learned in 2025.