I'm not meant to be biased but i'll be honest I love the Kart Republic brand, so seeing them more and more is great in my biased opinion.. We've seen them explode in popularity in IAME Cadets with DMS and Brennan Tech Racing making the switch to them as they victories and championships with the KR chassis. We see one in Junior X30 with Red Waft too but that was a mid season switch so we haven't seen much from the move yet. We usually follow the UK in their trends as we've similar classes and grip levels so what works there usually works here. But even though KR has been popular and won championships in Junior and Senior classes, it just hasn't taken off compared to the Cadet chassis.
With KR building momentum more and more you'd question, why would you switch if it's this successful? Synergy has been massively successful in Ireland, UK and Europe in the past few seasons with numerous wins and championships but KR after dominating the Junior and Senior classes they only had one market left to win in and they achieved it. Synergy had to respond and they have! Looking at the IAME World Finals entry I had seen the likes of Daniel Kelleher and other Fusion drivers use the Synergy which made me wonder why after KR being so good? It turns out they were using the new Synergy kart which has a lot of good word about it which was backed up by the results it's got. The chassis was developed by our very own Irish & European champion Daniel Kelleher who's been one of the best Cadet drivers in Ireland, UK and Europe the past two years. The time and effort put in by Daniel, DMS, Synergy etc could lead to them taking the crown back here in Ireland. As cool as it is to develop a successful chassis, Daniel won't be able to take a major championship in it as he moves up from Cadets but he must be keeping an eye on it to see what it'll do.
With Cadets moving to the 950 chassis maybe KR, OTK etc have move in the pipeline? We've also Parolin being brought into Ireland and the UK after being very successful in Europe but still waiting to see major results from it here. I hope we see a good battle of the brands as usually it ends up 90% one make. Would be nice to see OTK, Parolin, KR and Synergy fight it out and especially with the Cadet championship being wide open going into 2023.
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