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A fifth straight victory in KA100 Senior for Keagan Kaminski (Photo: Sector 5 Media)
The penultimate round of the 2025 ProKart Challenge took place at the Sonoma Raceway karting circuit over the August 23-24 weekend. It was the first time since 2017 that Superkarts! USA hosted an event at the Sonoma, California facility. The weekend weather was perfect for racing around the ‘National Pro’ layout, welcoming the second largest event of the season at over 160 entries competing in the 11 categories.
A total of 46 drivers contested the Formula Works KA100 Senior category on the weekend with the same end result as the first four rounds. Chase Hand was able to set fast time in qualifying, posting a 48.499 lap to edge out four-time race winner Keagan Kaminski by 75 thousandths. Hand was shuffled out of the lead on the opening lap of the Prefinal by Kaminski but returned to the point on lap three. He led until lap 10 with Texas Sprint Racing Series champion Jesus Vasquez Jr. taking control and the race win – as Jackson Menchu slipped into second. After leading the opening three laps of the Final, Vasquez dropped down to fifth as Hand took over the lead. Vasquez fought back to reclaim the top spot by lap 10. Hand led for a second time on lap 17, showing the way to the white flag. During the final circuit, Kaminski was able to work past Hand. Leading only the final lap, Kaminski celebrated his fifth straight victory on the season. Hand was short at the line by 58 thousandths, with Menchu joining them on the podium in third. Stephen Eisert and Ryan Persing finished fourth and fifth.
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Jay Urwin holds the Pro Shifter championship standings lead going into the SummerNationals (Photo: EKN)
The 2025 Superkarts! USA Pro Tour is set to conclude this weekend at the New Castle Motorsports Park. For an 11th straight year, the New Castle, Indiana facility will be the site of the SKUSA Pro Tour SummerNationals. A record-setting 300 entries are registered over the eight categories on the July 25-27 weekend, set to conclude the 16th championship season of the SKUSA Pro Tour.
Event schedule begins with unofficial practice on Wednesday and Thursday. Official sessions begin on Friday with four, seven-minute sessions with a fifth and final 12-minute run for all eight categories to close out the day. Seven of the divisions will follow the two round format on the weekend, including Pro X30 moving away from the Pro Show format. Warm-up, qualifying, Prefinal (8 laps) and Final (16 laps) make up Saturday with the same lineup for Sunday to complete Round Three and Round Four of the SKUSA Pro Tour. The SKUSA Pro Show features only the Pro Shifter division. Qualifying, Super Pole, Heat 1 and Heat 2 on Saturday set the stage for the 12-lap Prefinal and the 20-lap Final to decide the SKUSA SummerNationals winner. Read full story on eKartingNews.com |
The recently announced SKUSA Mexico series has been met with tremendous enthusiasm and excitement across North America. Racers from Mexico and the United States are both eager to see the SKUSA racing programs and format flourish in new territories and locations. Last week in Florida at the SKUSA Winter Series, SKUSA Mexico brought their key personnel to train on site in all major departments.
In an effort to launch the series with the best chances for success, SKUSA is being very proactive with respects to COVID-19 mitigation. In an effort to be fully compliant with Mexico’s “code red” status. Effective January 10th 2021, Mexico City will begin a mandatory lockdown for all non-essential activity. Cases are spiking in the in the nation’s capital city and decreasing bandwidth in hospitals. Both KBR’s Luis Jauregui and SKUSA’s Tom Kutscher both jointly agreed it was in the best interests of everyone to move the scheduled January event to March 05-07, 2021.
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Each and every SuperNationals since 2003, the TaG Senior division has been one of the most dramatic. From the Toby Scheckter decision in ’04, to the photo finish in 2010 with Andre Nicastro and David Sera, each and every year has been unpredictable. The category, all the way up to today with the Pro X30 division, has featured 21 different winners in the 21 editions on SuperSunday.
Joe Turney (MPG / Kart Republic) is looking to end all of that by becoming the first driver to win in back-to-back years. The British driver won in his first start in 2024, and also become the first Senior driver to win both KA100 Senior and Pro X30 in the same event. The now two-time winner and reigning SKUSA Winter Series champion will have all the attention on him throughout the week in Las Vegas. Read full story on eKartingNews.com |
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Justin White came out of the final lap with his first career victory in Pro Shifter (Photo: EKN)
The penultimate round of the 2025 Superkarts! USA Winter Series was completed on Saturday at the Orlando Kart Center. The third round of the championship saw a lot of excitement across the nine categories at the Orlando, Florida facility. The heat and humidity was turned up from Friday and of course increased from the January weekend, bringing on different conditions for the roughly 285 entries on hand. A thrilling last lap in Pro Shifter provided Justin White (Maranello USA) the opportunity to celebrate a first career victory while former SKUSA Pro Tour and Winter Series champion Joe Turney (JHDD / Kart Republic) escaped the battling once again for a third straight main event win.
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