U18 : D-25 Sodi

Created in 1981 by Gildas Mérian, its current President, Sodikart, in what will soon be 30 years, has become a major protagonist on the world Karting market. Out of all the Manufacturers, it is undoubtedly the one who has developed the largest industrial organisation and now generates the largest world production of both competition and rent karts.

All the Sodikart departments – commercial, administrative, production, research & development – operate from an ultramodern plant on 8,000 m2 located in Nantes, France, which was inaugurated in 1998. Sodikart employs 80 to 110 persons, according to seasons, and proposes a vast range of products and services (various equipments and accessories, organisation of events and e-trade website).

Mainly focused on competition in the 1980’s – initially as an importer and then with the first competition chassis of its own production under the make name Sodi – Sodikart then anticipated the emergence of a rent and leisure market in full growth by dedicating most of its development to the optimisation and manufacturing of such karts by thus limiting its involvement in competition. Particularly groundbreaking on this specific leisure ready market, Sodikart has developed a range of specifically adapted and innovative karts (technology, design and safety), and it has naturally positioned itself as the world leader. Its capacity to innovate and develop its products has since allowed it to maintain its dominating position.

As a man who is keen on competition, but also because racing remains a stimulating experimen- tation ground, both for technological developments and for his make’s image, Gildas Mérian has gone back with a vengeance to his first love. He has revived Sodikart’s “Racing Team”, and the make was very quickly successful again from the beginning of the 1990’s – with his first World Formula A title in 1993 as an apotheosis. In 2004, Sodikart landed the World Cup for Teams, while additionally collecting titles, victories and podiums both in France and abroad, as well as in official international competitions of the CIK-FIA – namely a list of results which now makes of Sodikart one of the most successful Manufacturers on all the circuits in the world.

DRIVERS ENTERED IN THE CIK-FIA « U18 » WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SODI :
Alexandre Baron (FRA); Henry G. Easthope (GBR); Paul Fourquemin (FRA); Mathieu Jaminet (FRA); Enzo Marchetti (FRA); Leo Roussel (FRA); Andrick Zeen (USA).