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Monday, 16 April 2012 13:56 |
 Sorry! The SKUSA staff has closed their pre-registration and is heading to Arizona shortly! You will be able to register at the track and purchase the other items you will need for this event starting at 10am this Thursday, April 19th or Friday morning starting at 6:30am. Click here for the RECENTLY UPDATED race schedule for this event, and here for directions to the track! You can also click here for the most current pit map. Please send an email to
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or call 951-491-0808 if you need to purchase items at the track such as a pit spot, tires, fuel or oil, so that we can add to to the list and be prepared for your arrival.
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Friday, 13 April 2012 14:01 |
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With 2 days left before the PRE-ENTRY cutoff for the 2012 MG Tires SpringNationals in Phoenix, Arizona, the TaG Senior class has reached a new milestone -- SOLD OUT at the 40-entry class cap! SKUSA has officially started a wait list for any TaG Senior drivers that were hoping to race next weekend at this exciting event, but have not yet pre-registered! Call 951-491-0808 or send an email to
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with the driver name and contact phone number to be added to this wait list. Names will be added to the list in the order received, and all drivers will be re-contacted as openings become available.
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Friday, 13 April 2012 13:31 |
 A major player in the motorsports industry, Honda Performance Development (HPD) has announced that they will continue their support of the karting ranks. The popular Honda CR125 engine is the backbone of shifterkart racing in the United States and HPD is once again giving back to the karting community with a number of contingency programs for the 2012 season. HPD is working specifically with the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour, California ProKart Challenge, Northwest Karting Challenge, the World Karting Association, the Rock Island Grand Prix and their ‘Spec Honda’ classes. In total, Honda Performance Development will award $17,000 in cash and ‘HPD Bucks’ to racers across the country.
Competitors in the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour Stock Honda categories - S1, S2, S4, and S5 - will have a chance at the $6,400 in cash awards from HPD toward the season championship standings. Each category will see the champion receive $750, vice-champion $500, and third $350. At the SKUSA SuperNationals XVI in Las Vegas, HPD will have an engine raffle for the S2 podium drivers, one to receive a new CR125 Engine Kit, worth $2,500. The California ProKart Challenge, the current longest running SKUSA regional program, will see all five Stock Honda categories (S1 through S5) earn HPD Bucks at the end of the season. The champion in each class will receive $200, runner-up $100, with third place $75. A Honda EU1000i Generator is to be raffled off at the banquet with a new CR125 Top End Kit raffled per event.
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Friday, 06 April 2012 11:53 |
To say that MG Tires is a staunch supporter of the Superkarts! USA program is a vast understatement. The partnership between the Brazilian tire manufacturer and U.S. karting’s fastest growing racing organization has been an extremely positive one, and this union will be on display once again as MG Tires has been confirmed as the title sponsor of the third annual SKUSA SpringNationals, the opening race weekend of the 2012 SKUSA Pro Tour. The event is just two weeks away, set for April 20-22 at the Phoenix Kart Racing Association facility in Arizona, and MG has stepped up with an unprecedented prize package that has never before been offered by a tire supplier. MG will be presenting each and every podium finisher, 48 in all over the weekend, with a new set of MG tires as a reward for their top-three performance. This program will provide over $10,000 in value to Superkarts! USA Pro Tour competitors.
“My personal relationship with MG Tires is now in its 12th season, and I’m thrilled that they have come to the plate to support our racers once again, with such an incredible sponsorship package for the SpringNationals,” offered Tom Kutscher, SKUSA President, singing the praises of his tire partner. “Our MG SK-White program is a key component of our program and provides our racers with the best tire in the sport. The new MG-WT rain tire is also strong, and I’m pleased that we now have it in place for 2012 so that we are an all-MG organization. This prize package for our MG Tires SpringNationals podium finishers is beyond crazy, and I hope that our racers realize how cool this is.”
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:15 |
 Nearly 100 racers converged on the Willow Springs Kart Track in Rosamond, California last weekend for the second stop of the 2012 California ProKart Challenge, a Superkarts! USA regional program. On March 23-24, the flagship program for the organization hosted its second round of the six-race championship on the fast and challenging 6/10-mile course. Now with 1/3 of the title chase in the books, the contenders and pretenders have been sorted out, with two drivers standing out above the rest in the headline categories -- Matt Johnson in TaG Senior and Jimmy McNeil in S1 Pro Stock Moto.
Carrying the #3 SKUSA plate for 2012, Johnson is on a mission to earn the #1 plate for the 2013 season. Beginning the California PKC season with a solid performance at Buttonwillow, Johnson backed it up with an event sweep this past weekend. Johnson topped the charts for the Leading Edge Motorsports-sponsored category, posting a 43.860-lap. Dakota Dickerson, the #2 plate holder for 2012, ended the session in second, with Canadian Lorenzo Mandarino making his first start of the season with a third place effort in qualifying. Johnson was able to lead flag-to-flag in both 12-lap heat races to secure the pole position for the main event, with Mandarino running second in each moto. In the feature race, Johnson drove away from the battle for second, securing the victory by 3.5 seconds and adding the bonus points to his total for fast lap of the race. 2011 PKC champ Travis Lowe was able to secure the second spot, with Lloyd Mack stealing third from Mandarino on the final circuit. Kevin Hernandez -- a new SKUSA racer from Mexico -- was fifth in his first start of the season.
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