Bio

Tamás Gender was born in 2010 in Budapest and already as a child, he was familiar with the workshop and during the race weekends, he was happy to sit into the race cars, helped the mechanics or enjoyed his time in the pit and on the race track as well. He was amazed by the atmosphere of the sport and it quickly seemed that motorsport would be a determining factor in his life. In 2014, he got his first Parolin kart with which the goal of his family was to make him fall in love with the sport. The family took his kart to the team’s formula race weekends and if there was a possibility for a little practice on the race tracks, his father was leading him by a scooter to show him the racing line and apex of the corners.

Tomi started kart racing in 2017, gaining his first experience with Balázs Pődör. He was only gaining mileague this year but a year later he was already racing for KMS Motorsport. He was competing in the Rotax Micromax category, mainly in national and Central European races for two years.

In the second half of 2019, Tamás Junior was racing with VPD Racing in the Hungarian National Karting Championship, which was his first full racing season. At the end of the season, he finished fifth in the Micromax category of the Hungarian national championship. He was also racing in the CEE - Central European Rotax Max Championship, also in the Micromax category, where he reached 25th place overall at the end of the year. On the occasion of the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, he had a special opportunity as he was able to stand on the grid as a "GridKid" and listen to the Hungarian National Anthem together with the racers.

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Since 2020, Tomi takes part in nearly twenty race weekends and more than fifty races each year. In the second half of the 2020 season, he was able to stand on the podium several times, keeping absolutely in step with the leaders of the category. This resulted in two particularly valuable results: the second place achieved in Belgrade during the FIA CEZ and Serbian National Karting Championship race weekend on a track completely unknown to him with racing technique of a stronger category among opponents older than his age group. One of his most valuable results so far was born in October 2020 in Kecskemét on the last race weekend of the national championship where he won his first race in difficult conditions on a rainy track and was able to stand on top of the podium. Later in October he received a testing opportunity from the Italian Team Driver team with whom he started in the X30 Mini category of the IAME Series Italy and took 4th place on his debut. He also completed other competitions of the year in the colors of the Italian team, with encouraging results.

In 2021, Tomi continued working together with Team Driver. He started 101 races in 22 race weekends and completed 51 test days in total. In his first full season of racing in the X30 Mini category of the eight-round IAME Series Italy he finished 7th in the championship with 190 points. The Campionato Italiano ACI Karting (Italian open national championship) Thirty-seven of the fifty-eight starters were able to score points in this year's racing season during the five rounds and Tamás Junior collected sixty-two championship points and ended his first MINI 60 Italian championship season in seventh place. Based on the results achieved and the performances shown, his team, Team Driver, the team decided that he could start the next races of the WSK Global Racing System already during the summer.

With the particularly strong international field reaching the final depended on only one or two places on both race weekends which is considered an excellent result for competitors who are making their debut in the series.

Beginning with February 2022, he was racing for Parolin Motorsport where he started in the Campionato Italiano ACI Karting MINI60 category as well as in some IAME Series Italy X30 Mini category competitions but most of his races were in the various categories of the WSK. In June 2022 he suffered a rib injury during an Italian championship round in Ugento which forced him to rest. He returned to the Mini category in August but in mid-September he started testing for the OK Junior category.

In the following years, Tomi progressed to higher categories of karting: in 2023, he raced in the OK Junior category with Forza Racing, and from 2024, he competes in the senior OK category with VictoryLane Karting. He participates in prestigious series such as WSK, Champions of the Future, the CIK-FIA European Karting Championship, and the World Karting Championship. Alongside his karting career, Tomi is st to take part in formula car tests in the near future, further advancing his journey toward the higher levels of motorsport.

In addition to racing, Tomi dedicates significant effort to his physical and mental preparation. He trains weekly at the 321 Perform training center, which specializes in the comprehensive mental and physical development of athletes in technical sports.

Milestones

2022

Transfer to Parolin factory team in February 2022. HUMDA Academy membership in June. Testing in the OKJ category in September. First WSK race in OK Junior category in October.

2021

First comple racing season in Italy with Team Driver. 7th place in IAME Series Italy Mini category and 7th place Campionato Italiano ACI Karting. WSK debut in September 2021.

2020

Hungarian National Go-Kart Championship and FIA CEZ races. 1st place in Kecsekemét, 2nd place in Belgrade. Testing with the Italian Team Driver racing team.

2019

First complete racing season in the Hungarian National Go-Kart Chmpionship, 5th place at the end of the season in the Micromax category. GridKid during the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.

2018

Preparing for racing, first races in the colors of KMS Motorsport.

2017

Testing in race conditions.

2014

First Parolin go-kart.

Management

Tamas Gender

manager, father

Felice Tiene

coach

Zsolt Matics

Fit4Race

Xavier Feuillee

321 Perform founder, director

Series of competitions

WSK is an international karting championship that organizes 6 cups/championships in one season. These are Champions Cup, Super Master Series, Euro Series, Super Cup by Mini, Open Cup and Final Cup. These various championships have been running continuously since the 2010s. The starting competitors are usually divided into four categories: KZ2, OK, OKJ and 60 Mini. Due to the high-quality competitions and numerous categories there are usually more than 100 competitors on each race weekend. Excellent drivers such as Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Álex Palou have achieved outstanding success.

The first go-kart world championship race took place in 1964 jointly organized by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and the Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK). In 1968, the CIK-FIA launched the first junior world championship. From 2011, the championship became five round championship, each of them was held in a different country. From 2014, the World Championship returned to a single event, every year the CIK-FIA OK and OK Junior World Championships are held on one weekend at one location, and the CIK-FIA KZ World Championship is held jointly with the CIK-FIA at another location on another weekend. The third and final round of the KZ2 Super Cup and the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy will be organized together with the aforementioned series. The separate CIK-FIA Endurance Championship is usually held each year at Le Mans in France. The various continental championships are also popular and prominent among go-karts, such as the CIK-FIA European Championship (for OK, OK junior, KZ, KZ2 and Superkart categories) and the CIK-FIA Asia-Pacific Championship.

There are more than 190 national events under the IAME Series banner, more than 45 international championships in which IAME Factory participates as a naming sponsor and engine supplier, and more than 135 international events where it is a partner. The IAME calendar is one of the busiest in the world of karting. The IAME Series Italy is one of the strongest and oldest championships of the IAME series in the world.

The Karting World Championship is a kart racing competition organised by the CIK-FIA. It is held annually since 1964, and is karting's flagship event. The FIA (International Automobile Federation) created the CIK (International Karting Commission) in 1962. The Current President of the Championship is former Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa. The first two World Championships in 1964 and 1965 were held over one final round, there after the world's best kart drivers competed for the title over an extended weekend, from Thursday to Saturday, including free and qualifying practice sessions, qualification heats, a pre-final and a final were common. From 2011 the championship has been disputed over five rounds, each of them in a different country.[1] From 2014 the world championships returned to a single event with one venue each year organizing the CIK-FIA OK and OK Junior World Championships in one weekend and another venue in a different weekend holding the CIK-FIA KZ World Championships together with the CIK-FIA KZ2 Super Cup and the third and final round of the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy.[2] There is a separate CIK-FIA Endurance Championship, normally held each year at Le Mans, France, and there are separate Continental Championships like the CIK-FIA European Championships (OK, OK junior, KZ, KZ2 and Superkart) and the CIK-FIA Asia Pacific Championships. In 1968 CIK-FIA launched the first World Cup for Juniors.

THE OLDEST RACE IN THE WORLD Started in Parma back in 1971, in agreement with the main constructors of the time, the Trofeo delle Industrie has already lived 45 editions organized by Parma Karting . A lot of the protagonists of the International Karting have competed and won the Trofeo delle Industrie ahead of completing the whole trip to Formula 1. The “Trofeo delle Industrie” is the oldest karting race in the world. It is organized by Parma Motorsport as the most full of history and glorious karting race. Among the numerous protagonists that started their career at the Trofeo delle Industrie, several have kept their momentum becoming great names of the main formulas of motor racing. Everything started back in 1971 from an initiative of the Parma’s Kartodrome owner Umberto Pellegrini, who has made the circuit of Emilia become the fulcrum of international karting organizing several Italian as well as European and World Championships: precisely, 37 Italian, 4 European and 5 World championships. It was not by chance that Umberto Pellegrini used to call his track the “Mondial… track!”. The tradition of the “Trofeo delle Industrie”, as well as that of the other big event taking place in Parma, the Andrea Margutti Trophy, is still lively thanks to the commitment of Umberto Pellegrini with Tiziano, Donatella and Germano.

Launched in 2020 by promoter RGMMC, the Champions of the Future series has become a must for the best international drivers and teams. Some of the biggest names in the world have already won the competition, some of them now in single-seaters. In 2023, the Champions of the Future Euro Series will be held over five meetings optimally spread between March and September. Based on the FIA Karting regulations, the next season promises to be rich in quality and quantity in the OK and OK-Junior categories, with its calendar aligned with that of the European and World Championships!

This karting championship is organized by the Italian motorsport federation, the ACI. They usually have around 10 races in a season in categories like Mini Gr.3., OK-N, OKN-J, KZ2, KZN. The participants have the possibility to race in the most famous karting tracks around Italy; Franciacorta, Cremona, La Conca, Val Vibrata, Sarno. Thanks to the high number of participants the young karting racers can be well prepared for international races as the races are always tough and challenging here.

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