Ode of Race, by Luca De Donno

“Gladly as His sun do fly

through the heavens’ splendid plan,

run now, brothers, your own course,

joyful like a conquering hero”

Friedrich von Schiller.

“Ode to Joy”: words of the final movement of the IX Symphony by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Anthem of the European Union.

Replay, on European scale. The 2013 calendar brings us back here at exactly a month’s distance: same days (the finals set to run on March 3rd, just like the finals of the Master Series were on February 3rd), same track and same great excitement. Except, this time there is a more “European” scent blowing in the wind, since we are inaugurating a new Euro Series that will once more extend beyond Italy crown karting’s strongest drivers. It is in moments like this that the official anthem of the European Union, better known as Beethoven’s “Ode of Joy”, resounds as the perfect music.

(Listen here !)

Editorial by Luca De Donno, WSK Euro Series Magazine, March 2013