Sung Kim Moon

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Sung Kim Moon
Sung Kim Moon
Nationality 23px-Flag of South Korea.svg-1-.png South Korean
Born (2004-11-23) 23 November 2004 (age 19)
Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea
VOARS Series career
Debut season 2023
Current team Jiading Series Automobiles
Car no. 16
Starts 0
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podiums 0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
Previous series
N/A None
Championship titles
N/A None

Sung Kim Moon (born 23 November 2004) is a South Korean virtual racing driver from Goyang, South Korea. He currently races in the Virtual Oceania-Asia Racing Series for Jiading Series Automobiles, having made his debut at the start of 2023.

Personal life

Early career (2023-present)

Sung Kim Moon began karting at the age of six; he felt that he was naturally gifted at the sport after he set a blistering lap time at his local indoor kart track.

After a few years of casually karting in indoor and outdoor circuits, and taking part in the odd club race, he finally began professionally karting at the age of ten, where he won various local championships in his province and region, he won the Virtual South Korean Karting Championship three times: one time in the Mini class in 2015, and two in the Junior class in 2017 and 2018.

In 2019, he began racing outside of his home country, in the Virtual Australian Karting Championship in the VKJ category, where he made an unimpressive first season, coming in 32nd, with little points. 2020 was what he hoped would be a breakthrough year for him, but due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, he was forced to sit a year out and would play racing games such as FV 2020, in order to keep his mind sharp, just in case he would go back to racing later in the year.

After a turbulent 2020, he began picking up the pieces of his karting career, and made his return to the sport in early 2021, in the Downton Winter Cup in the VK class, at the first round in Seoul, where he came in 7th place in a field of 52 karters. He also raced in the Downton Asian Series and came in 3rd in the championship. Sung raced in a handful of other competitions throughout Asia, most notably the Virtual Asian Kart Series, where he gained media attention in South Korea after the third round in Suzuka, where he finished on the podium after starting at the near back of grid.

The young Korean picked up various sponsors that funded his 2022 campaign, as he returned to Australia once again to compete in the Virtual Australian Karting Championship, but in the VK category this time, as came on the podium four times, and won one race, finishing the championship in 6th. This performance and a handful of other appearances in Australia and New Zealand was enough for him to be in contention for a VOARS seat. After testing with multiple teams in late 2023 - including local Australian teams, Higgs Grand Prix and Outback Motorsport - he announced that he would be driving for Chinese team, Jiading Series Automobiles, partnering Serbian Milan Stankovic.

Virtual Oceania-Asia Racing Series (2023-present)

Although his team was the slowest of the 10 teams contesting VOARS, he drove with the best materials he and the team had and consistently beat his teammate, and in the round in Thailand, he got the team's best results of the season, 7th, 9th and 10th.

He also explained his poor performances before Thailand, in India and China, as he said that he struggled with an injury in his leg.

Racing record

Career Summary

Season Series Team Name Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2023 VOARS Jiading Series Automobiles 0 0 0 0 0 0* N/A*

* Season in progress.

Complete VOARS results

(results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos. Points
2023 Jiading Series Automobiles AUS
1
10
AUS
2
15
AUS
3
14
JPN
1
18
JPN
2
12
JPN
3
10
CHN
1
16
CHN
2
Ret
CHN
3
14
IND
1
13
IND
2
15
IND
3
13
THA
1
7
THA
2
9
THA
3
10
UAE
1
6
UAE
2
6
UAE
3
10
18th* 33*

* Season in progress.