The FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Vehicle) has introduced that the 2025 FIA Karting World Championship will function an esports occasion.
Organised by the Swedish Vehicle Sports activities Federation, the occasion goals to showcase sim racing as a viable pathway to real-world motorsport.
The occasion, going down in Kristianstad, Sweden, from September eleventh to 14th, 2025, will use the iRacing platform and is open to everybody aged over 14 years outdated who holds a world racing license.
The FIA has chosen its digital F4 vehicles to race within the competitors. The only-seaters aren’t any strangers to the world of digital motorsport, having featured within the motorsport governing physique’s FIA F4 World Esports Championship, which returned in June.
“Bringing collectively Karting and esports on the 2025 FIA Karting World Championship underscores the FIA’s dedication to grassroots funding and increasing the methods individuals can interact with motorsport,” stated Vincent Caro, Head of Circuit Grassroots Disciplines and Actions on the FIA.
“Accessibility is central to the FIA’s World Karting Plan and this initiative is a serious step ahead rising participation and opening new entry factors into the game.”
Esports showing as a part of an FIA-sanctioned motorsport occasion is a continuation of the governing physique’s efforts to combine sim racing into its initiatives.
In December 2024, it authorised an esports regulatory framework to manage sim racing competitions alongside providing the authorized framework for nationwide occasions to happen.
Sim Racing In 2025
Following its preliminary growth interval in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the expansion of sim racing has stagnated, with fewer large-scale esports occasions going down.
Curiosity in sim racing esports is predicted to realize traction in direction of the top of 2025, with Motorsport Video games saying the return of the Le Mans Digital Sequence following a two-year absence. Qualifiers for the occasion are set to happen within the fourth quarter of the 12 months.
