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Deven Grabko Signs with KEDA Motorsport

1/17/2025

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Deven Lewis Grabko graduates from karting to single seater formula racing as KEDA Motorsport sign the talented young racer for next season!

Grabko will race for the Danish squad in the Aquila Formula 1000 Championship in 2025.

The young Swedish-American pilot only turned 13 in December, but comes off the back of a monumental 2024 season in karting, which saw him claim multiple race wins, take two Swedish national championship titles, victory at the Gothenburg Grand Prix, as well as a call up to the US national team to compete in the FIA Motorsport Games. 

KEDA Motorsport, founded by multiple championship winning driver Kevin Suenson, won the race to secure the full time services of the promising junior talent as their first confirmed driver signing for the coming season.

The Nordic Aquila Formula 1000 Championship is Scandinavia’s premier introductory formula racing series. It has been developed to be the best and most effective development platform for talented new and young drivers. Utilising a complete race weekend format, and offering a prestigious championship where an official junior national title is up for grabs, Aquila Formula 1000 offers an ideal environment for all aspects of driver development. Each round contains free practice, qualifying, and 3 full length races at each round of the championship. Aquila Formula 1000 is one of the only introductory single seater championships of its kind in Europe, providing one of the best development platforms anywhere for drivers aspiring to climb into higher single-seater or GT/touring categories.
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I’m super excited! Ever since I tested the car last Spring I’ve been thinking about it, and to get the opportunity to race in it for real this season is like a dream come true! It is a huge step, but I am ready, and am going to do everything I can to develop and learn as fast as possible and repay Kevin and the whole team for putting their trust in me.”
​~ Deven Lewis Grabko
We’ve had our eye on Dev for a while now, and are extremely happy to welcome him to the team as our first driver signing. After seeing him test at the Aquila Driver Academy International last year we were already convinced. We are sure he will adapt well from karting, and are really looking forward to working with him and developing him as a driver.”
​~ Kevin Suenson, Team Principal, KEDA Motorsport.
We are really happy for Deven to take this important step in his career at such a young age. He showed last year he has the talent and determination of a true champion, and can go far in this sport. The Aquila Formula 1000 Championship is a perfect platform for him to make the transition from karting into single seater racing and develop his skills. We are sure that Deven is in great hands with Kevin at KEDA Motorsport. Everybody should keep an eye on this pilot, he is going places.”
​~ Giovanni Minardi, Managing Director, Minardi Management
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2024 Season in Review

12/10/2024

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Nation's Most Decorated Junior Karting Driver

​Deven Lewis Grabko has achieved a season to remember, completing a meteoric rise to prominence. He took Swedish karting by storm in 2024, exceeding all expectations. The ultimate dark horse, bursting onto the scene as one of the youngest drivers on the grid to become the Scandinavian nation’s most decorated junior karting driver by the end of the season.

The numbers speak for themselves. 39 competition entries. 20 top 5 finishes including 12 podiums with 6 race victories. 2 National Titles and the Winner of the 2024 Gothenburg Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious races on the Nordic karting calendar.

The young Swedish American pilot showed consistency and poise, crowned Champion of Sweden’s two most competitive and demanding national series. Grabko claimed the 6 round IAME Series Sweden X30 Junior Championship in dramatic style, delivering under immense pressure by completing a must-win comeback victory in the final round to claim the title in one of the most dramatic conclusions to the competition in recent history.

​​Grabko’s second championship was confirmed as he took the 7 round Junior 125 South Sweden Kart Champions Cup title in style, with a margin of over 30 points to the 2nd place finisher in then end.

In both championships, he achieved more podiums than any other driver, his consistency reinforcing his championship winning qualities and cementing his position as a multiple national title holder. 

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PRESS RELEASE: TROLLHÄTTAN, SWEDEN 2024-07-15

7/15/2024

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​Deven Grabko Will Represent Team USA at the 2024 FIA Motorsport Games in Valencia, Spain.

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. 
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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.
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!"
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~ Deven Grabko, hardly able to contain his excitment.
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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.”

~ Giovanni Minardi, expressing his confidence in Deven’s prospects
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DEVEN GRABKO & AD MOTORSPORT TEAM UP AGAIN FOR 2024

1/19/2024

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​​📣ANNOUNCEMENT📣 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇺🇸

Deven is super happy to confirm his renewed commitment to the championship winning AD Motorsport for the 2024 race season! 🏎️💨💨💨

Deven’s 2024 International race program with the team will include select rounds of the IAME Euro Series and IAME Series Italy in the X30J category as well as the Champions of the Future and CIK/FIA European Championship in the OKJ category.

In addition to this, Deven will complete a full double duty Swedish race program to include the South Swedish Kart Champions Cup and IAME Series Sweden championships in both X30J and OKJ categories as well as the Swedish National Championship.

The season will start early for the young driver, who will travel to Valencia, Spain in a week’s time to prepare for the first race of the season, the IAME Euro Series Winter Cup, from January 31st to February 4th.

Deven had this to say about the news, “I am so happy to be able to race with AD Motorsport again this year! I am really grateful to be starting my junior career with them, it is going to be such a great place for me to develop and the team is amazing, and growing fast. It feels really good to be a part of it.”

Alex Dahlberg was equally stoked, “We really like Deven here, the energy he brings, and feel we can really contribute to his development and help him reach the big potential he has. He is a great ambassador for the team and the brand. It will be a really exciting year with him in our organization.”

Giovanni Minardi of Minardi Management shared these thoughts, “We are pleased to see Deven settled in a place where he is comfortable and can focus on development. We want big things for him in the future and know that he can acheive them.”

More fun news and announcements to come, watch this space! 👀👀👀

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Full Weekend Race Report: Kart Cup West Final Round 5 - Borås, Sweden

10/13/2023

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One Championship Secured - Another Slipped Away

​Going into the final round of the Kart Cup West, it was as tight as it could possibly be between the top 3 drivers, and absolutely anything could happen, with only two points separating the trio of Hugo Eklund, Deven Grabko, and Alexander Frykberg going into the last race of the season at the Gäddered Motorsport Complex Karting Circuit outside of Borås, Sweden in the village of Svaneholm.

There was extra pressure on our man Deven, who had held on to the second spot in the Kart Cup West National Series Championship for the last three rounds after a piston ring failure at his home track in Uddevalla cost him an otherwise sure podium finish, and his off in qualifying at the 3rd round in Lidköping where he was fastest on track all day long had cost him another podium. Had he secured those two results earlier in the season, he would already have already been sitting on 80 points going into the final round and had the series already wrapped up going into the final round.

As it was, he was on 70 points, one point behind the leader, Hugo Eklund, and one point ahead of 3rd placed Alexander Frykberg. He was also at a disadvantage to all the top 4 in the series on the tiebreaker criteria, which were best results, as Frykberg had a 2nd place in Skövde to Deven’s two 3rd place finishes in Gothenburg and Skövde, and Eklund had the victory in round 1 in Uddevalla.

So it meant he would have to beat them both on track outright in order to win, as any tie in points would go to the other driver.

SATURDAY FREE PRACTICE

The weather would be wet most of the free practice day, and in these conditions, Deven was untouchable. With laps time between 1 and 1.5 seconds faster than the closest competitor, things were looking good at lunch time on Saturday.

The afternoon running was still looking good, as the track moved over to dry conditions and slicks went on. Deven still held an approximate 3 tenth gap to the next fastest drivers in the early afternoon. The gap was closing, however, and as the track gripped up more and more, parity was reached and by the last run, the team was now looking at a 2-3 tenth deficit in pace to the fastest drivers instead, chasing time instead of setting the pace.

It was a worrying development going into the race day where it was forecast for sun and dry, more grippy conditions than the free practice day. The kart was stepping out in the back on our driver, preventing him from being able to fully push at key moments on the track, and race engineers were having trouble mitigating the issue.

This was how the situation ended going into race day.
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