12 Hours of flat-out karting. Dubai Kartdrome E...
RaceMonday, March 18th, 2013We go behind the scenes – and compete – at the first round of the 2013 Dubai Kartdrome Endurance Championship. It’s all very well us covering myriad motorsport series around the...
Red Bull. Mohamed Al Mutawaa. The Rising
VisionFriday, November 9th, 2012It had been a hard-fought race in sometimes superb heat, but as one of Red Bull’s finest stepped from his single seater in the UAE and lifted off his monogrammed helmet,...
Shot of the Day. “zzzzzzzz…I’...
Shot of the DaySunday, October 14th, 2012It’s 2am, and the crankandpiston crew is pretty knackered. We’ve been here for just under eleven hours now, and since the Dubai Kartdrome is hosting the third round of the 2012...
Autobahn. The Way Grip Works
VisionThursday, August 23rd, 2012Such is the enormity of motorsport that appropriate adjectives seem almost never-ending: wheel-to-wheel; intense; raw; on a knife edge. Graceful. On-track warfare may prove heated at times, but only when there’s...
The most epic karting save ever. Club 100. Beas...
RaceSunday, May 13th, 2012As we’ve recently mentioned, karting is awesome. Particularly when you get in-kart footage of maybe the greatest save in racing history. During a close battle in the UK’s Club 100 series,...
Dubai Kartdrome Endurance Championship 12 Hrs. ...
RaceThursday, May 10th, 2012Love motorsport? Always wanted to give it a go, but never had the dollar? Then you, my friend, need to look into karting. It’s the most affordable form of motorsport around...
Tuned Lawn Mowers. USLMRA. Mowing The Racing Li...
LifestyleMonday, February 27th, 2012Crankandpiston has already brought you news and coverage from the WRC, the LMS, the UAE GT and F1. Now we’d like to celebrate twenty years of the USLMRA. That’s the United...
Ice Race. Dubai, UAE. The Heat Is Off
LifestyleSunday, February 19th, 2012We made some noise recently about last weekend’s Red Bull Car Park Drift in Abu Dhabi (hope you stayed glued to Red Bull TV). A couple of weeks ago though, we...
International Super Karts. Dubai 24hrs 2010. Me...
RaceMonday, January 18th, 2010Try and picture the complete crazyness of what I am about to write. Take one Go-Kart, add a 250cc, two cylinder engine that churns out 90Bhp and then sit back and...
Dubai 24Hrs 2009. Kart Race
VisionMonday, June 22nd, 2009A big thanks to Ali A. for letting us post his great camera work from the last Dubai 24Hrs Kart race held at the Dubai Kartdrome. Sit back and enjoy the...
