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Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:23 |
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Thanks to the growth of current events and the debut of another, the 2014 national karting season is expected to surpass what was already a historic season of racing last year. One of the events that are sure to take the sport to another level is the Modesto Grand Prix, the site of the fifth annual Superkarts! USA SummerNationals. The Northern California city has partnered with the popular karting organization to host a three-day street race right in the heart of the city during the first weekend of August. Just after the New Year, the City of Modesto and Superkarts! USA hosted a press launch to introduce the citizens, then local media and city officials to the early plans for the race and the sport of karting, to be specific.
The City of Modesto is located about 90 miles east of San Francisco and 70 miles south of Sacramento, in Northern California. Over 200,000 people call the Central Valley city home. The famed Modesto Arch is the city’s historical icon, which has featured the motto, ‘Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health’ since its construction in 1912. Famous filmmaker George Lucas is a native of Modesto. His popular film – American Graffiti – was filmed in Modesto, and is celebrated through numerous events that are held during the summer months, festivals that bring thousands of car fanatics into the area.
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:52 |
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Dallas Karting Complex is set to host the 2014 Superkarts! USA SpringNationals on May 2-4 (Photo: DallasKartingComplex.com)
Superkarts! USA is happy to put the final piece in the puzzle that is the 2014 SKUSA Pro Tour. The opening two rounds of the series – scheduled for May 2-4 – will take teams and drivers to the Dallas Karting Complex (DKC) in Caddo Mills, Texas. Located just 45 minutes away from downtown Dallas, the DKC facility will host the first visit to the LoneStarState for the SKUSA Pro Tour.
2014 SKUSA Pro Tour logo“We’re excited to be taking the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour further east this year,” stated SKUSA President Tom Kutscher. “The group at Dallas Karting Complex is set to welcome our program and all of our SKUSA racers at the beginning of May to host one of the biggest karting events of the year. Karting in Texas has a long history, and the location in the middle of the country provides a great opportunity for racers from both coasts to meet together and battle for a SpringNationals victory.”
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Friday, 20 December 2013 11:13 |
 The 2013 Superkarts! USA Pro Tour came to a close following the action at this year’s record-breaking SuperNationals XVII. It was a historic year for the fourth season of the Pro Tour, seeing an increase in numbers across the board for both the SpringNationals in Tucson and the SummerNationals in Colorado. Each of the eight categories in this year’s championship chases saw new drivers claim the SKUSA #1 plate for the 2014 season, following a dramatic three weekend series.
Over $45,000 in cash and prizes were handed out following the activities in Las Vegas, with the podium ceremonies held inside the Rio Sunday evening. The headline S1 and TaG Senior divisions split a $12,000 cash purse, while Honda Racing/HPD provided over $6,000 in contingency awards to the Stock Moto drivers. Vortex once again awarded the TaG Cadet champion with an entry to the Rok Cup International Final in Italy, while all 2013 title winners will be included in the 2014 SKUSA Circle of Champions, receiving free entry into the entire SKUSA Pro Tour next season. Nearly all eight of the championships came down to the wire, some even on the final lap of the feature races at the SuperNationals.
That was not more evident than with the opening race of SuperSunday: the headline S1 Pro Stock Moto class, presented by SwedeTech Racing Engines. Two-time Pro Tour champion Fritz Leesmann entered the SuperNationals leading the championship by what was considered to be a comfortable margin. Last year’s runner-up Joey Wimsett, however, had other ideas as the Oregon driver scored the fast time in qualifying then earned top five finishes in the three heat races. Leesmann struggled and went scoreless, closing the gap heading into the main event on SuperSunday. Wimsett went green-to-checkered for the victory, and would earn enough points to surpass Leesmann for the title. 2011 champion Daniel Bray would come just 19 points away from the top spot, ending up second with Leesmann back to third.
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Friday, 27 September 2013 22:27 |
As announced on Tuesday by the Modesto Bee newspaper, Superkarts! USA will be taking its growing Pro Tour to northern California in August of 2014 for the fifth running of the SummerNationals. The City of Modesto, which is located roughly an hour away from San Francisco Bay area, will welcome SKUSA racers and teams on August 1-3, 2014 and present them with an exciting street circuit in their downtown core. The combination of the increasing numbers on the Pro Tour, along with the uniqueness of a brand new street race, could position the 2014 SKUSA SummerNationals as one of the biggest karting events in North America.
“I’m incredibly excited to have the opportunity to work directly with a city like Modesto in bringing the SummerNationals to northern California. In fact, I haven’t been this excited in a long time,” commented Tom Kutscher, who has being working for over four months to put this program together. “The city is thrilled to have us and we’re designing a professional level event to present to both the city’s motorsports enthusiasts and to those who don’t know much about racing. They are going to take this race to the next level and are working to build the atmosphere to new heights.”
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Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:38 |
 Superkarts! USA is excited to formally announce the schedule for the 2014 SKUSA Pro Tour. The program will once again feature three major events – the SpringNationals in May, the SummerNationals in August and the season-ending SuperNationals on its traditional November weekend ahead of Thanksgiving. This new schedule has been developed after extensive efforts to avoid conflict with other racing series, and the staff at SKUSA is very motivated for the new season – thanks to some very exciting opportunities that have fallen into place.
SKUSA’s flagship ProKart Challenge series, which is based in California, works closely with the other large series in the state, and has chosen to race on the first weekend of every month. The Pro Tour will follow this formula for 2014, and the first two races have been scheduled for the first weekends of May and August.
The opening round of the Pro Tour – the SpringNationals – will take place on the May 2-4 weekend, moving into the month of May this year after the first four editions were run in April. SKUSA’s focus on cooperation with other Southwestern US programs led to the move, as the month of April is jam-packed with both racing events and special holidays. SKUSA was dedicated to taking into consideration the need to avoid conflict with partners like the Los Angeles Karting Championship (LAKC) and the previous-announced finale of the Challenge of the Americas, which needed to be moved to the opening weekend of April to avoid another conflict. In addition, April is home to a major California motorsports event – the Long Beach Grand Prix – as well as the Easter Weekend. With May 2-4 being open, and in line with SKUSA’s regional PKC program of running on the first weekend of the month, the date seemed to fall nicely into place.
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