CARSTEN SOER

Carsten Soer was four years old when he fell for motorsport — trackside at Brands Hatch in England, watching the old Mini Austins race alongside his father. When the family moved to France, a few rental sessions at Kartland were all it took. He kept asking to go back, so his parents bought him his first kart: a battered old KPR machine that had once belonged to Alessandro Giusti. It was Éric Chappard, who ran Kartland, who told them it was time to go racing.

He stood on the podium in his very first race, in 2021 — and he hasn't stopped since. Coached from day one by his father, his first mechanic and his most loyal supporter, he soon earned a name that follows him everywhere: the metronome. In Brittany, they call him the alien. Two ways of saying the same thing — lap after lap, in the wet as in the dry, he simply doesn't put a foot wrong.

Today he races for Kart Pro Racing in the French Nationale category, competing across several championships. Karting stopped being a hobby long ago: Carsten and his kart are one — and now he has his sights set on the very top.