The Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK or CIK-FIA) is the primary international sanctioning body for

kart racing Kart racing or karting is a road racing variant of motorsport with open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on fu ...

. It was founded in 1962, and is headquartered in Paris, France. In 2000, it joined with the

FIA FIA is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (English: International Automobile Federation), the world's governing body for all forms of motor sport where four or more wheels are used. Fia or FIA may also refer to: People * Fia Backs ...

. Its most important event is the Karting World Championship. CIK's current president, former Formula One driver Felipe Massa, took office in December 2017. His predecessors were

Luigi Macaluso Luigi Macaluso, also known as ''Gino'' (Turin, 9 June 1948 – La Chaux-de-Fonds, 27 October 2010) was an Italian rally navigator and manager. Together with Raffaele Pinto, he won the European Rally Championship in 1972 and the Italian Rally C ...

(October 2005 – October 2009), Nicolas Deschaux (October 2009 – October 2010). and Shaikh Abdulla bin Isa Al Khalifa.

CIK-FIA kart racing categories

* OK, the top level of karting *

KF2 KF2, is a kart racing class for top drivers aged 14 and up. This class used to be called Intercontinental A (ICA) and has changed since January 2007 when CIK- FIA decided to replace the 100 cc water-cooled two-stroke engines with 125 c ...

, a KF1 feeder series * OKJ, an OK feeder series * KZ1, the fastest KZ karting racing category * KZ2, the second fastest KZ karting racing category

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* Kart racing organizations Sports organizations established in 1962 {{Motorsport-stub