Valor Racing rental karting academy

Level 1 of the Valor Driver Development Programme

Valor Challenger

The free first level of the programme, for drivers racing in a championship who are on their way up. A mark that a serious team has seen your results.

Free to join. One application covers every level.

Valor Challenger

What Valor Challenger is

It is not team membership. Challengers do not race in Valor team kit, colours or race numbers. It is recognition that your results have been seen and checked by the team, and a route into the Academy if you keep winning.

What you get

What a Valor Challenger gets

Your own Challenger page

Send in results, see where you stand and manage your choices, all from one page that belongs to you.

The Valor Challenger visor strip

Earned with a qualifying result approved by the team, then bought from your page and posted to you. Earned once and kept for good. Lost or damaged it? Order a replacement.

Valor Challenger clothing

A t-shirt and jacket, opening up once your result is approved.

A route up

A championship win, and being ready to invest, puts you forward for the UK Academy.

What counts

Which results earn the strip

A win or podium in a championship final, or the overall result of a championship round. Every result is checked against what the published results show.

Counts

  • A TeamSport Grid Series round
  • A track championship round
  • A national rental championship: Club 73, Club100, SRK, EKS, BRKC or another national rental series
  • The final result, or the overall result of the round

Does not count

  • TeamSport open events
  • Thursday night events
  • Practice sessions
  • Arrive and drive and open races
  • Heats, qualifying and lap time leaderboards
  • Corporate and party events

The check is strict. We read the results link or screenshot you send and check the championship, the session, your name and your position. If the published results do not clearly show it, it does not count.

How to apply

Three steps to a Challenger page

Step 01

Apply

One application covers every level of the programme and takes about five minutes. Drivers 18 or over apply themselves. For drivers under 18, a parent or guardian applies.

Step 02

Send your result

Tell us where you race and send the results link or a screenshot of your championship win or podium.

Step 03

Earn the strip

Once the team approves your result, the visor strip and the Challenger clothing open up on your page.

Before you apply

Two things worth knowing

Not racing a championship yet

Start where everyone starts

Arrive and drive sessions, TeamSport open events and Thursday nights are the best place to start, and every quick driver started there. Valor Challenger begins once you are racing in a championship. Get onto a TeamSport Grid Series, your track’s championship, or a national rental championship such as Club 73, Club100, SRK, EKS or BRKC, then come back and apply.

Drivers under 18

A parent or guardian applies

Drivers under 18 apply through a parent or guardian. The parent fills in the application, makes every choice about the driver’s data and receives all contact. A parent or guardian attends any Valor event with a driver under 18.

One more thing. The correct wording is “Valor Challenger”, never “I race for Valor”. That matters to the drivers who have earned a seat.

Before you apply

Twenty places, and they cost nothing.

Valor Challenger is twenty places for 2027 and it is free. You are not committing to a paid season and you are not paying to find out whether this is for you. You send one application, the team reads it, and if your racing fits, you carry the colours.

That same application is the one the Academy and the Works Team are filled from. Send it once and you are in front of the team for every level, this season and the next.

Valor Challenger

Free to join. The strip is earned.

Put your results in front of the team and see where you stand.

Read the privacy notice and the programme terms.