I have found my sport! In December 2018, I was able to participate in my first karting course on an indoor track. I think that was the moment when the passion ignited. We spent a lot of time at the kart track in Marktl, where I was also able to win my first race ever. In the spring of 2019, I then got my first real racing kart and after that I trained a lot with my father on the local Bavarian tracks.
In spring 2020, I then took my first big step and joined DS Corse, a real racing team. What happened next I would never have dreamed of. I took part in 11 race weekends and finished 10 of them in the top 5 and 7 in the top 3! The absolute highlight was my first victory in a Masters race on my home track in Ampfing!

After the season many trainings in Italy followed and in spring I took part in some races of the WSK, the strongest international mini field. During this time I was accepted into the Mac Minarelli International Mini Program and was also allowed to ride directly with the factory in some races of the Italian championship.
Step by step it went further and the several times final participations in this top-class driver field were the reward for the hard training.

However, the start of the following 2021 season went anything but according to plan. I could hardly meet my own expectations and so in July, halfway through the season, I decided to leave my previous team and also the Mac Minarelli brand.
As a driver of the CV Performance Group with a kart from Kart Republic I contested the remaining races.
Already at the first race after the change I was on the podium again and the absolute highlight followed shortly after with the pole position and a double victory at the ADAC Kart Masters in Kerpen.
Finally I was able to drive at the front again!
In the remaining races of the season, I was on pole four times and finished all the remaining races of the SAKC as the winner of the weekend.
I also finished every remaining weekend in the Kart Masters in the top 3 and took another race win.

In 2022 I moved to the junior class in OC and took part in several races in Italy, the German ADAC Kart Masters and also the DKM. There was a lot to learn, the starting field usually close together. In the middle of the season I switched to TB Racing, the team with the most drivers in my class. I was able to finish the ADAC Kart Masters 2022 on P5 overall.

2023 season started again with some races in Italy, at the Winter Cup in Lonato I finished in the top 10 for the first time in such a big race.
The focus this year was completely on the DJKM, the biggest German championship in my class.
During the season I was abel to score 3 Race Wins, and out of 11 possible podiums I took 9. Overall I achieved most points of all the competitors but due to the regultation which delets two results I finally lost the champoinship…..

I have also started to drive a LifeLive Cross Car in some rally races in Germany , that was real fun. But unfortuntaly the possible races in Germany are not what I am looking for and so I will not continue this for the moment.

For 2024 season some things will change an my journey brings me back to where everything started. With Kartshop Ampfing I am back to my first karting experience and with Drago Corse I will also take the chance to drive something different for this year. In Germany I will compete in X30 Senior. In the national and international races in Italy I will  start again with Gold Kart and Righetti Ridolfi in OKN Senior category. This will be the restart of a story which had it´s beginning already in Mini60.
Let’s see what is possible!

None of this would have been possible without the support of my mentor Torsten Kostbade, my whole family and all my sponsors!
Many thanks to all of you!
Yours, Marc