F1: Young Luca gears up for Italian kart race – Gulf Digital News

F1: Young Luca gears up for Italian kart race – Gulf Digital News

Teenaged karting star, Luca Kane Houghton, left for Cremona, Italy, this morning to participate in the second round of the 2022 FIA Karting Academy Trophy’s second-round.

Luca, 13, who was born in the kingdom to Cindy Kramer, who is Dutch, and Kane Houghton, an Australian, is representing Bahrain – as he always has since he first started racing five years ago at the age of eight.

“I am aiming to win this race,” Luca told the GDN last night. “If I win this second-round race, I could take the lead in the championship.”

The teenager currently occupies fourth position, with 18 points, in the championship table after the first-round race in Genk, Belgium, last month. A win in Cremona, where the three-day round will begin on Thursday, would propel him to the top of the table. That would stand him in good stead for the third and final round scheduled to be held in Le Mans, France, at the beginning of September.

The FIA Karting Academy Trophy’s 2022 edition features 54 contestants – all aged between 12 and 14 – from around the world. The event was first held in 2010 and current F1 drivers Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Esteban Ocon are past