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LeCont: not just karting
Drivers with LeCont in F1
All the greatest drivers of the world motorsport scene, past and present, from Formula 4 to Formula 1 (as Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Lando Norris, Logan Sargeant, Gabriele Minì, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and many others) grew up learning the art of karting with our tyres, winning European and world races and championships and still train by choosing high quality LeCont tyres, like Daniel Ricciardo in Franciacorta, Lando Norris in Adria, Carlos Sainz, Valentino Rossi, Francesco Bagnaia and Andrea Kimi Antonelli. Here are some others.
Alex Powell
WSK Final Cup Adria 2021 Mercedes Junior Team |
Andrea Kimi Antonelli
FIA Karting European Championship Wackersdorf 2020 Mercedes Junior Team |
Anthoine Hubert
FIA Karting World Championship Essay 2011 Renault Junior Team |
Antonio Fuoco
FIA Karting World Championship Essay 2011 Ferrari |
Antonio Giovinazzi
FIA Karting World Championship Essay 2011 Ferrari |
Arvid Lindblad
WSK Final Cup Adria 2021 Red Bull Junior Team |
Caio Collet
FIA Karting World Championship La Conca 2015 Alpine Driver Academy |
Carlos Sainz
LeCont Tyres 2022 Ferrari |
Charles Leclerc
FIA Karting World Championship Bahrain 2011 Ferrari |
Christian Lundgaard
FIA Karting European Championship Kristianstad 2015 Alpine Driver Academy |
Daniel Ricciardo
LeCont Tyres 2021 McLaren |
Dan Ticktum
FIA Karting European Championship Sarno 2013 Red Bull Junior Team |
David Zachary
WSK Open Cup Adria 2021 Sauber Junior Team |
Dexter Patterson
FIA Karting European Championship Kristianstad 2019 Sauber Junior Team |
Dino Beganovic
FIA Karting European Championship Genk 2019 Ferrari Driver Academy |
Enzo Deligny
WSK Super Master Series Sarno 2022 Red Bull Junior Team |
Felipe Drugovich
FIA Karting European Championship Kristianstad 2015 Aston Martin Driver Academy |
Frederik Vesti
FIA Karting European Championship Portimão 2015 Mercedes Junior Team |
Gabriele Minì
FIA Karting European Championship Le Mans 2019 Alpine Driver Academy |
George Russell
FIA Karting World Championship Braga 2011 Mercedes |
Gustaw Wiśniewski
WSK Super Master Series Round 1 Lonato 2022 Sauber Junior Team |
Harry Thompson
FIA Karting World Championship Alaharma 2019 Sauber Junior Team |
James Wharton
FIA Karting European Championship Sarno 2020 Ferrari Driver Academy |
Jonny Edgar
FIA Karting European Championship Kristianstad 2017 Red Bull Junior Team |
Kean Nakamura Berta
WSK Super Master Series Sarno 2022 Alpine Driver Academy |
Lando Norris
FIA Karting European Championship Alcaniz 2013 McLaren |
Logan Sargeant
FIA Karting World Championship La Conca 2015 Williams |
Luna Fluxa
LeCont Trophy I 2020 Mercedes Junior Team |
Marta García
FIA Karting European Championship Kristianstad 2015 Alpine Driver Academy |
Max Verstappen
LeCont Tyres 2015 Red Bull |
Nikola Tsolov
WSK Final Cup Adria 2021 Alpine Driver Academy |
Oscar Piastri
FIA Karting European Championship Portimão 2015 McLaren |
Pietro Fittipaldi
LeCont Tyres 2016 Haas |
Rafael Camara
WSK Super Master Series Adria 2021 Ferrari Driver Academy |
Robert Shwartzman
FIA Karting European Championship Sarno 2013 Ferrari |
Théo Pourchaire
South Garda Karting Winter Cup Lonato 2020 Sauber Junior Team |
Tuukka Taponen
FIA Karting European Championship Zuera 2020 Ferrari Driver Academy |
Ugo Ugochukwu
WSK Super Master Series Lonato 2021 McLaren Junior Team |
Yuanpu Cui
WSK Final Cup Sarno 2022 Mercedes Junior Team |
History
2010
- FIA Karting World Championship
FIA Karting World Championship 2010
2011
- FIA Karting World Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
FIA Karting World Championship Bahrain 2011
2012
- FIA Karting World Championship
- WSK 60
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
FIA Karting World Championship Bahrain 2012
2013
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- WSK 60
- CSAI Karting Italian Championship
FIA Karting World Championship Bahrain 2013
FIA Karting European Championship Alcaniz 2013
2014
- FIA Karting World Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
- Turckheim Hill Climb
- Bergrennen Mickhausen International Hill Climb
- Eschdorf Hill Climb
- Swedish Karting Championship
24 Hours of Le Mans Karting 2014
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2014
Turckheim Hill Climb 2014
Bergrennen Mickhausen International Hill Climb 2014
Eschdorf Hill Climb 2014
Swedish Karting Championship 2014
2015
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting International Super Cup Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- Max Verstappen x LeCont Tyres
FIA Karting World Championship La Conca 2015
FIA Karting International Super Cup Le Mans 2015
FIA Karting European Championship Sarno 2015
24 Hours of Le Mans Karting 2015
Max Verstappen x LeCont Tyres 2015
2016
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- WR Motorsports
- Xtreme Rock Island Grand Prix 2016
- Major League Karting
- Enzo & Pietro Fittipaldi x LeCont Tyres
24 Hours of Le Mans Karting 2016
WR Motorsports 2016
Xtreme Rock Island Grand Prix 2016
Enzo & Pietro Fittipaldi x LeCont Tyres 2016
2017
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- FFSA French Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- LeCont x New York Race Complex
- F-Series USA
- NHKA Racing Series
- LeCont x E-Agle Research and Development University of Trento x Slalom 7 Tornanti
FIA Karting World Championship PFI 2017
FIA Karting European Championship Sarno 2017
FFSA French Championship Val d'Argenton 2017
24 Hours of Le Mans Karting 2017
LeCont x New York Race Complex 2017
F-Series USA 2017
NHKA Racing Series 2017
LeCont x E-Agle Research and Development University of Trento x Slalom 7 Tornanti 2017
2018
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting International Super Cup Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- FFSA French Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- New York Karting Championship
- Charles Leclerc x LeCont Tyres
FIA Karting World Championship Genk 2018
FIA Karting European Championship Salbris 2018
FFSA French Championship Varennes-sur-Allier 2018
24 Hours of Le Mans Karting 2018
New York Karting Championship 2018
Charles Leclerc x LeCont Tyres 2018
2019
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- LeCont Fair
FIA Karting World Championship Alaharma 2019
FIA Karting European Championship Angerville 2019
24 Hours of Le Mans 2019
2020
- FIA Karting World Championship
- FIA Karting European Championship
- WSK Euro Series
- RGMMC COTF
- South Garda Karting Winter Cup Lonato
- LeCont Trophy I
- LeVanto Tyres
- WSK Series
- RGMMC COTF
FIA Karting World Championship Portimão 2020
FIA Karting European Championship Zuera 2020
WSK Euro Series 2020
RGMMC COTF Zuera 2020
South Garda Karting Winter Cup Lonato 2020
LeCont Trophy I 2020
LeVanto Tyres 2020
WSK Series 2020
RGMMC COTF 2020
2021
- WSK Champions Cup
- WSK Super Master Series
- WSK Euro Series
- WSK Open Cup
- WSK Final Cup
- Daniel Ricciardo - McLaren - LeCont Tyres
- Lando Norris - McLaren - LeCont Tyres
WSK Champions Cup Adria 2021
WSK Super Master Series Adria 2021
WSK Euro Series Lonato 2021
WSK Open Cup Adria 2021
WSK Final Cup Adria 2021
Daniel Ricciardo - McLaren - LeCont Tyres 2021
Lando Norris - McLaren - LeCont Tyres 2021
2022
- FIA Karting European Championship
- WSK Champions Cup
- WSK Super Master Series
- WSK Euro Series
- WSK Open Cup
- WSK Final Cup
- LeCont Trophy II
- LeCont Hivern Karting VIII
- FIA Karting Prize Giving
- Carlos Sainz - Ferrari - LeCont Tyres
FIA Karting European Championship Genk 2022
WSK Champions Cup Lonato 2022
WSK Super Master Series Lonato 2022
WSK Euro Series Lonato 2022
WSK Open Cup Lonato 2022
WSK Final Cup Sarno 2022
LeCont Trophy II 2022
LeCont Hivern Karting VIII 2022
FIA Karting Prize Giving 2022
Carlos Sainz - Ferrari - LeCont Tyres 2022
2023
- FIA Karting European Championship
- WSK Champions Cup
- WSK Super Master Series
- WSK Euro Series
- WSK Final Cup
- LeCont x Pro Kart
- Valentino Rossi & Francesco Bagnaia x LeCont Tyres
FIA Karting European Championship Zuera 2023
WSK Champions Cup Lonato 2023
WSK Super Master Series Lonato 2023
WSK Euro Series Sarno 2023
WSK Final Cup Lonato 2023
LeCont x Pro Kart 2023
Valentino Rossi & Francesco Bagnaia x LeCont Tyres 2023
More performing and efficient tyres
LeCont tyres are more performing, efficient, safe and resistant: they guarantee greater grip for a longer time, constant lap after lap thanks to the LeCont compound. Every LeCont tyre has a QR code containing all the information about the tyre, which has no sense of rotation. Furthermore, LeCont tyres are a concentrate of technology: they contain a RFID, a microchip to identify the tyre and the rider. LeCont tyres are the only dynamic bench tested: an environment designed to recreate the most extreme track conditions in order to improve the quality and safety of the tyre.
LeCont: more than 26 years of passion for racing
LeCont, a tyre manufacturer, which fully started its commercial activity in 1994, was actually founded in 1993 by the brothers Sergio and Valter Cont, industrialists from Trentino today at the head of the Cont Group (also present in the mechanical industry and in the construction sector real estate), but also great motorsport enthusiasts who, in their youth, personally delighted with the joys of piloting, both in karting and in motocross.
Throughout its history in competitions, LeCont has won 42 Italian Champion titles. The first, still with the "PneusK" brand, won it in 1997 in motocross (in the prestigious 250 cm³ VISP category). This two-wheeled discipline was, however, abandoned by the Rovereto (TN) brand as early as the following year, to devote itself entirely to karting.
Since then, LeCont tyres have allowed several kart drivers to win 41 Italian Champion titles on four wheels. Most of these were conquered in the premier category, with a 125 cm³ engine and gearbox.
These figures also include the 2 titles won by riders who are wheeled by our company with tyres with the "All Tyres - PneusK" brand and the six won with tyres with the "Cont Sport Tyres" brand. At the same time, LeCont has, over the years, also produced tyres for mini bikes and racing cars (in 10" and 13" with traditional cross-ply carcass).
As a manufacturer of high-performance compounds for racing tyre treads and supplier of these to other companies in the sector (including big names of international prominence), LeCont has indirectly won several national and international titles (including 6 European Champion titles) in motoring, also in formulas of great prestige and media coverage and also various world titles in other types of track competitions.
In 2011 and 2012, LeCont was the exclusive supplier company selected by the CIK-FIA to equip all the competitors participating in the FIA Karting World Championship U18 and the CIK-FIA Academy Trophy.
From 2011 to 2019 LeCont was also selected by the French Federation (FFSA) as the exclusive supplier of the French Endurance Championship (initially with KF2 engines, then replaced by OK, and Rotax Max which joined the X30 and OKJ).
From 2011 to 2018, LeCont also exclusively provided the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting. Of which the Group 2 & 3 Classes will continue to wear LeCont tyres also in 2019.
In 2012 and 2013, LeCont equipped all categories of the National Karting Championships in Italy, Sweden, Lithuania and Romania (SKAT), the Formule Blue and F. Blue Jr categories of the British Championship, as well as the 60 Minikart Category in the prestigious WSK Private Series. and in the Belgian Private Series CIB (IAME) and all categories in the French Private Championship Ufolep.
In 2013, LeCont was selected by the CIK-FIA as the exclusive supplier company to equip all competitors participating in the KF3 Karting World Championship, the KF3 European Karting Championship and the KF3 Super Cup. The Mexican Federation also selected LeCont to supply all the competitors in the first Mexican FIA Karting Championship which still uses LeCont tyres.
In 2014, LeCont exclusively supplied the KF2 category in the Italian Karting Championship, and in the following two years the ACI 125 Junior and Senior Class.
From 2014 to today, LeCont equips all categories of the National Karting Championships in Sweden and the new Child Class created by the British Federation MSA and several other private series in Europe. LeCont has also been selected by the French Federation (FFSA) as the exclusive supplier of the French KZ2 Championship (and also its Master, Gentlemen and "Longs Circuits" variants) for the three-year period 2017, 2018 and 2019.
LeCont has been selected by the Norwegian Federation as the exclusive supplier of all categories of the Norwegian Championship since 2017.
LeCont has been chosen by the British MSA Federation as the exclusive supplier (for the British Championship) of the OK category since 2017 and also of the KZ2 category, since 2018. Since 2017, the presence of LeCont has also expanded a lot on the North American market and in particular in the USA.
Meanwhile, CIK has selected LeCont several times as the exclusive tyre supplier for its international categories.
LeCont: a success story since 1993
- 8 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Karting
- 2 editions of the Gearup F-Series Championship (USA)
- 2 editions of the ICP Championship (USA)
- 2 editions of the Golden Cup (USA)
- 1 edition of the FKC Championship - California (USA)
- 2 titles of FIA Karting U18 World Champion (2011, 2012)
- 1 title of KF3 World Champion (2013)
- 1 title of KFJ World Champion (2015)
- 1 title of OK World Champion (2017)
- 1 title of KZ World Champion (2018)
- 1 title of KF3 European Champion (2013)
- 1 title of KFJ European Champion (2015)
- 1 title of OK European Champion (2017)
- 1 title of KZ European Champion (2018)
- 3 titles of CIK-FIA International Academy Trophy Winner (2011, 2012, 2018)
- 3 titles of CIK-FIA International Endurance Championship (2016, 2017, 2018)
- 2 titles of CIK-FIA Super Cup KZ2 (2015, 2018)
- 42 titles of Champion of Italy (of which 1 in motocross in 1997, class 250 cm³ VISP; 41 in karting)
- 32 titles of Champion of Sweden
- 16 titles of Champion of France
- 16 titles of Champion of Great Britain
- 15 titles of Champion of Switzerland
- 12 titles of Champion of Mexico
- 12 titles of Champion of Romania
- 10 titles of Champion of Norway
- 8 titles of Champion of Lithuania
- 5 titles of Champion of Croatia
- 1 title of Champion of Belgium
- 5 Italian national trophies
- 4 trophies of the WSK
LeCont Trophy
More than 100 drivers with LeCont tyres compete at the Lucas Guerrero circuit in Valencia in 6 different categories to win the LeCont Trophy: an event organized since 2020 by LeCont in December each year to reward the best kart driver in the classes: MINI, X30 Junior, X30 Senior, OK, OKJ and KZ. Discover more!
A patent for sustainability
LeCont holds a patent to recover used tyres from tourist and indoor kart tracks spread throughout the world and give a second life to tyres that would otherwise be thrown away by replacing the used tread with new ones: a Formula 1 pit operation.
+100.000 tyres/year in +30 countries
LeCont has a global presence in more than 50 countries: Discover more!
LeCont track: New York Race Complex
The LeCont kart track in the United States. Discover more!
Research and development with University of Trento
LeCont is proud to provide its tyres for research and development purposes at the University of Trento through the E-Agle project. Discover more!