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Wright Karts
Founded1978
FounderSimon Wright
Headquarters
England

SWRD Ltd / Wright Karts is an English company founded by Simon Wright in 1978, manufacturing and racing racing kart chassis.

SWRD/Team Wright Karts have contested the ultra-competitive Junior/ICA/Formula A/Formula SuperA/KF1/KF2/KF3/KZ1/KZ2/Formula Super ICC and X30 World and European championships for over two decades.

SWRD Racing Engines is a subsidiary of Simon Wright Racing Developments and specialises in the tuning of kart racing engines. SWRD Racing Engines have been an Iame agent for over 20 years (the longest in the UK). They also rebuild and repair other makes and models of motors.

Formula One star and 2009 World champion Jenson Button spent much of his karting career with Simon Wright Racing Developments/Team Wright Karts.

Dan Wheldon, IRL (Indy Race League) champion 2005 & Indy 500 winner 2005 & 2011, also spent the vast majority of his karting career with Simon Wright Racing winning multiple British Championships along the way.

Other ex-drivers include:

In 2012 Team Wright karts were pleased to announce a partnership with Formula 1 World Champions, Redbull F1, to run the Official Redbull KF3 junior karting team. All of the Redbull KF3 drivers (Harrison Newey, Alex Gill & Rory Cuff) were using the "Wright Suzuka 3" chassis and Simon Wright Racing Developments tuned Iame Parilla motors, this was a combination that resulted in Wright Karts winning the 2012 KF3 British Championships with Alex Gill (Ahead of future F1 star George Russell). This is a partnership that continues to this day, with Wright Karts being the kart of choice when UK based Redbull athletes use karting as both one of their off-season training methods and driver development programs.

2014 saw Wright Karts produce their first "Race specific" chassis for the rapidly growing "Bambino" category. The introduction of the "Wright Centaur" proved to be a great hit with the chassis winning the Bambino British Open Championships - Piloted by Oakley Keightly. The chassis has since gone on to become the most successful kart in the UK Bambino class ever. In 2018 the Wright Karts produced the successor to the Centaur, the Minotaur, which picked up where the Centaur left off, winning major Championships in its debut year:

For 2020 Wright Karts will introduce their brand new "Flag ship" Cadet Kart. The Wright Phoenix[citation needed]

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