A high-profile international Kart Grand Prix is to be held here from December 17 to 18, organizers said here on Tuesday.

Maria da Fonseca Tavares, Acting Vice President of the Macao Sports Development Bureau, told a press conference that the 2005 Macao International Kart Grand Prix are to attract over 150 competitors from 20 countries and regions to contest in seven racing events.

Among the competitors are some 30 "world class" Kart racers who made outstanding performance in the World Karting Championship held in Portugal last September, including the two runners-up of Jon Lancaster from Britain and Davide Fore from Italy.

Macao is to host the Karting event for the second straight year and the previous event was hailed as successful by both spectators and competitors, Fonseca Tavares noted.

Macao, a region with a population of merely 480,000, has a long history of its racing craze.

It has hosted the annual racing event of Macao Grand Prix for 52 years.

Source: Xinhua