The secrets of Vortex victories: Experience and Innovation

The karting season prepares to get to the heart of the scene: the second race of the Open Master and the first race of the European Championship are just around the corner and, as well, the most important International races will pass one after another unending. This short period of season, already expressed some clear values and gave great importance to the protagonists on the scene. Vortex, in this context, is the motor-sports company which carried out a definitely complete and profitable work, the engines come out from Giovanni Corona’s factory cleaned out the Margutti in Parma, the first race of the Open and, by pure chance, they didn’t  hit the centre of Winter Cup. We are traditionally accustomed to the top of the ratings, just remembering that our engines hold the iris of the two greatest classes, FA and ICC. In virtue of the new International Regulation CIK FIA, our Vortex status up-to-date has even a bigger weight. We remind that the greatest twistings in the motor-sports regulation concern the displacement increase, from 100 cc. to 125 cc., the clutch introduction and the restriction of the running turnover, fixed by an electronic gearcase. These rules forced the radical engine remaking for the up-to-date classes called KF. In addition to the satisfactions that RAV project gave us, we have to take into consideration also the ones getting by the engine: it belongs to a new concept, too and destined to the shift class, RVX. Who, better than Giovanni Corona, Vortex deus ex machina, can tell us any secrets of these two deadly arms?

Giovanni Corona -  Vortex s.r.l. President
“Up-to-date the situation is favourable to us, and both of the projects, the engine for KF and the one for KZ are excellent. This is confirmed by our Racing Team and by all our satellite teams, with their results. But, for sure, I am expecting a recovery by our competitors. The new Technical Regulation, passed for the next 3 years, allows us to make the most of the good work we carried out with our RVX and RAV. After that, we will have to propose something innovative again, but we have these three years of margin in order to work and study new solutions, so that this advantage can prove itself during the next homologue three-years period.”

How could you sum-up the strength points of the new engines?
“Unlike the most direct competitors, we are a relatively small company. This allow us to have an outstanding flexibility in our work and in the reaction time. In fact, also during the years in which we had tarnishing moments, we were able to place the winning “ shove”, that allowed us to stake ourselves again. I think that another one of our strength points is the fact that we always follow a self-governing and independent way, in comparison with all the work that the others carried out. We worked on the basis of our experience and of our background; we were able to develop completely independent projects. In my opinion, if you work copying or allowing the others to condition you, others’ mistakes add one on another and… In a certain sense, the project grows faulty.”

Which is the role of the racing team in the birth and in the development of a winning engine?
“For sure, the engine success results from the competitions tie, especially with the racing team and the whole organization around it: drivers, the team men… All is a complex and well-constructed process, that we are bound by. As all already know, we are very attached to Tony Kart. The Tony Kart-Vortex actually become a sole equipment, it is a forced coupling. This subjected us to an important pressure, because we are indissoluble from them and they are indissoluble from us, so neither, unlike some other competitors, can make mistakes. The mistake of one of ours would affect the other and vice-versa, so we both have to take our great responsibilities.”