MI acts to avoid karting split

MOTORSPORT IRELAND has agreed a two-year plan to keep karting in its jurisdiction and will invest €25,000 each year.

It follows a claim from a breakaway group, Kart Ireland, that the governing body had reneged on a deal that appeared to have healed the rift between the two groups.

“I am at a loss to explain of how it got from committee meetings to a new organisation, four resignations, it just doesn’t appear to have been thought through to the full extent,” said Alex Sinclair, the chief executive of Motorsport Ireland (MI).