12 year old Swedish-American racing talent, Deven Grabko, has been
selected to represent the USA at the 2024 FIA Motorsport Games to be held
in Valencia, Spain during the 3rd week of October.
Deven, who is represented by the well-respected Italian Driver Management
Agency, Minardi Management, has already made an impact on the
international junior karting scene, scoring an impressive top 10 finish at the
age of 11 in his junior category and World Series Karting debut, where he
finished 7th in the WSK Final Cup at the hallowed South Garda Karting
Circuit in Lonato, Italy, last November.
The news of his nomination to represent the USA at the 2024 FIA Motorsport Games, dubbed the Olympics of Motorsport, comes on the back of not only his very strong debut in the international junior karting categories, OK Junior and X30 Junior, but also continued positive results during the beginning of the 2024 season, confirmation of his quality.
Grabko currently races with his team AD Motorsport, who are based in Helsingborg, Sweden. Together with his team, he has enjoyed a very successful start to his first full season of junior karting, scoring two race wins, three podiums, and several additional top 5 and top 10 finishes in the first half of the season, which also included debuts in the IAME Euro Series Winter Cup in Valencia, Spain, and the IAME Series Italy Open Games in Lonato.
Deven now leads the drivers championship in Sweden’s largest and most prestigious karting championship, the South Sweden Kart Champions Cup, in the Junior Open 125cc class going into the Summer break.
Deven will not be resting this Summer, however. The young pilot will make his Champions of the Future Euro Series and FIA Karting European Championship debuts this month, the two biggest karting series in the world. The Åsum Ring International Karting Circuit in Kristianstad, Sweden will host the 4th rounds of these distinguished competitions July 17-20 and August 1-4, respectively.
The young racing talent continues to show great strides in development, and Giovanni Minardi, his manager, believes he is ready to take the next step in his career, and represent his country on the world stage. Deven is ecstatic about the news, “This feels amazing! What a huge honour to represent the USA, how many people get to say that!? I can hardly believe it is true – it is almost like a dream! I will do whatever it takes to prepare well so I can make my country proud!
I want to thank everyone who has ever supported me for helping to make this possible – all the sponsors, my team, Giovanni, Alex, Kevin, Hugo, Danny, Maximus, of course my family, and all the rest – this is why we do this!” Giovanni Minardi was confident about Deven’s prospects. “This is a well deserved appointment for Deven, and a fitting next step for him on his journey.
I have always known he was an extremely fast and talented driver, otherwise we would not have signed him. I am very sure he will be fighting near the front and do us and his country very proud.”
Deven Grabko is a Swedish American racing driver born in Trollhättan, Sweden, and raised in both Trollhättan as well as San Diego, California. He attends school in year 7 at Paradisskolan’s English Speaking Curriculum in Trollhättan.
- Web: www.grabkogp.com
- Instagram: @grabkogp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grabkogp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GrabkoGP
Minardi Management is a well reputed Italian Driver Management Agency run by the same family legacy from the Minardi Formula One team in the 2000’s and
have been an active and influential name in motorsports throughout the years. They are known to bring their drivers from a young age through the kart racing
categories and into single seater formula racing. - Web: www.minardimanagment.com
- Instagram: @minardi_management
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/minardimanagement
FIA Motorsport Games: https://www.fiamotorsportgames.com/
