27/01/2025
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
After 15 years and 15 seasons of championship hire kart racing, the Intertrack Karting Championship has raced it's final lap and final season in 2024.
IKC will not be returning in 2025 and we want to thank everyone who has raced with us and supported our club and community over the years.
Now is the right time to close off our amazing 15 year run as IKC. IKC didn't want to end without an accessible Victorian hire karting platform to continue the spirit of our club, however with the fantastic Victorian Hire Karting Championship having recently been established, VHKC represents an amazing platform for Victorian hire kart racing to continue to grow and develop just as IKC has for many years. We encourage all IKC drivers to have a look at joining VHKC in continuing the racing spirit that IKC has offered for 15 years.
Let's look at the history of IKC from 2010 to 2024:
"The IKC was born over a few beers when the DWS motorsport social club (DWS is a consultancy) who was all about cars, F1, and go-karting, started chatting. We’d been racing in the AceKarts league from 2009 to 2011. DWS was already deep into the AceKarts league, and one night, between drinks, we thought, “Why not race at different tracks?” And bam—IKC was born! The founding members were Adam Mills and Jordan Thomas. They looked after the races for us and selected them. The IKC was mostly made up of DWS race heads who had a competitive streak and clearly lots of time."
-Jay Morgan (one of the founders of IKC).
Adam Mills and Jordan Thomas headed the club from 2010-2012. Jay Morgan took over the running of IKC from 2012-2014. Kieran Griffiths then picked up the reins from 2015-2017. Dean Dell and Simon Arnold then took the lead from 2017-2024.
In the founding days from 2010, IKC was a small group of passionate motorsport fans setting up their own karting championship across metro Melbourne. The later years of IKC from 2017+ took on a more Victorian wide appeal where IKC hosted up to 50+ drivers in some rounds and expanded beyond metro Melbourne to head all over regional Victoria for changing race formats at Stony Creek, Phillip Island, and Bendigo. It's been a real journey and the club has seen huge changes and growth but one thing always remained the same, IKC's philosophy of an accessible and high intensity kart racing championship.
As the years went by, the competition grew stronger and stronger and during two seasons (2022 & 2023) we had to split the field to dedicated light and heavy divisions given our large attendance numbers. To achieve the pinnacle and be an IKC champion was every drivers aim, yet only so few could achieve it given the intensely fierce competition. In all, we had 11 amazing IKC champions (with 3 multiple time champions), with the 2022 and 2023 years including separate divisions for heavy and light weight champions. Many of our drivers and champions progressed onto higher forms of motorsport within karting and beyond and IKC has been a great starting point for many entering into the world of motorsport and karting.
Some highlights over the years included the many amazing race tracks we visited that have since closed down such as Silhouette Karts in Somerton with it's high revving high speed 2 stroke karts, to the famous co-driver TUKE 2 hour endurance event in South Morang, to the twisty GoKart Sport indoor turns at Moorabbin, and also to Melbourne's first electric go karting venue at Hi Voltage in Ravenhall. A big highlight of seasons past were our endurance rounds where drivers had to pair up and strategically race with compulsory pit stops and driver changes. Not to mention that epic round where we had the Australian karting GOAT Dave Sera join us for a round of competitive racing.
IKC had often been recruiting drivers through all of Melbourne's hire karting scene from Sonic/Elite Racing Club, to the formerly known LeMans Addicts Club now Legends League, to the AceKarts league cup events and the Karting Madness season league events. IKC would not have been the great series it was without every driver and supporter from our club, so thank you so very much for the all the many great years of racing, rivalry and fun!
It's been an absolute blast being a part of IKC and has been the very definition of core memories. A sincere and heartfelt thankyou to everyone whom has been a part of IKC for all the years of great racing and deeply fond core memories!
Crossing that finish line and checkered flag for the last time!
-IKC.
