Richert Forms Team For Rotax Pro Tour

Geelong's Daniel Richert has formed a kart racing team and is currently recruiting drivers to tackle the 2009 Rotax Pro Tour events. Richert himelf will race the Pro Tour in Rotax Heavy while team member Chris Stern will race the Rotax Masters (O'35s) class. The team has vacancies for a further 3 drivers to compete in the Pro Tour via Arrive-and-Drive deals.

Richert (right, Cooper's pic) is one of Australia's most accomplished kart racers having been at the front of the field for nearly two decades. He won the 1996 Victorian ICA Championships and competed for Australia at the Suzuka World Cup in Japan for the Italian PCR Team in 1998. Several years of racing at National Level in Commodore Cup brought more than half a dozen wins in the series while at the same time still managing to run at the front of kart meetings across Australia culminating with a second place at the 2008 Formula 100 Nationals last November. Richert also recorded a dominant win in Rotax Heavy at the recent Geelong Winter Cup aboard the latest Kosmic chassis the team will race in the '09 Pro Tour.

Richert is now ready to pass on the knowledge that started when, as a 7 year old, he would run-in the fearsome 100cc methanol burning reed engines for his father Henry who would compete in the 200cc Super and International Heavy classes back in the late 1980's!

"I'm now at the stage where I can run a professional racing team and pass on my two decades of experience," said Richert. "The Rotax Pro-Tour comes at the perfect time. We will be approaching it quite professionally with the very best Kosmic chassis, fantastic engines with direct assistance of national championship winning tuner Karl Bond along with all assistance at the track.

"The Pro-Tour is going to be just like the old CIK Series in the late 1990's when we raced at an elite level in a professional series at places like Ipswich, Bolivar, Eastern Creek and even Suzuka in Japan".

Richert should know, having won races and podiums in that series ahead of guys like Mark Winterbottom, David Clark, Jamie Whincup and Wesley and Brendan May. In addition Richert is offering additional one-on-one trackside driver training for not only the team's drivers, but also karters that want some one-off expert tuition to move them up the field.

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