TM Kart was born in 2023 from the division of the kart department of TM Racing, a company born thanks to Claudio Flenghi, engine expert and kart enthusiast, and Francesco Battistelli, frame builder and motocross enthusiast. The two childhood friends began to experiment, almost for fun in the workshop under Flenghi’s house, already in the mid-70s, the first elaborations on already existing models and Battistelli himself tried them in cross races with satisfactory results.
Meanwhile, Flenghi mounted another modified engine on a kart and started racing in this discipline. Race successes followed for both and what had initially been a game and a post-work passion now required a different production perspective.

So the two friends decided to transfer production to a real company, in the industrial area of Pesaro, registering the  TM company in 1978, with a name born from the initials of the names of their sons Thomas and Mirko.
Presenting itself at the Milan Show, TM had an unexpected success and prompted Flenghi and Battistelli to produce both motocross and enduro bikes and kart engines. In particular, Flenghi continued the development and production of kart engines, which immediately proved to be very competitive in racing.