Aug 27, 2018

September is championship month for the California ProKart Challenge as the flagship regional program for Superkarts! USA is set to host its penultimate round at the Monterey Bay Karters facility on August 31 – September 1. The Marina Airport Kart Track in Marina, California will be the site for Round Five over the Labor Day […]

Aug 27, 2018

The 2018 Superkarts! USA Pro Tour came to a close at the recent SummerNationals held at the New Castle Motorsports Park in New Castle, Indiana. It was another amazing event as the ninth edition of the SKUSA Pro Tour decided the nine IAME and Stock Honda championship. As with every Pro Tour event, Eyenovation’s Chris […]

Aug 27, 2018

To give the drivers a new challenge when the WKA Bridgestone Manufacturers Cup ascends on the New Castle Motorsports Park, for the Nitro Kart New Castle Nationals, September 14-16, series organizers have elected to race New Castle Configuration 40 for the event. “New Castle is such an amazing facility, with many configurations, we wanted to […]

Aug 24, 2018

Karting is a legitimate motorsport. I swear it is. But many times, over and over here in the United States, it seems that we are just looked at as a game or a hobby, not as a legitimate motorsport in the eyes of the higher-ups. It not only is a slap in the face for […]

Aug 23, 2018

On July 11, the sport of karting lost a man who made an indelible mark on the industry in the late 90s and early 2000s.  Joe Ramos Sr. was at the helm of SSC Racing in 1997 when the WKA Constructors Championship brought a national CIK-style racing series to United States karting, and he led […]

Aug 23, 2018

Heartland Park was the 6th stop on the Vega Road Race series but this time WKA’s Robby Harper combined forces with KART’s Kelly Read and Jim Edgington to bring the Summer Sizzler to Topeka Kansas.  With these two-powerhouse karting organizations joining forces there was bound to be some good ole fashion racing to the checkered […]

Aug 23, 2018

ROK Sonoma usually has tough, tight and exciting racing, but the “smoking” racing for this race had to do with the smoky haze in the air from the Mendocino County fires. The fast-National track configuration made for some exciting racing as drivers used the draft to set up passes on the front straight. A veteran […]

Aug 23, 2018

Taking on the Motomaster ASN Canada FIA National Championships this past weekend, PSL Karting, the North American importer and distributor of Birel ART, descended on Mosport Kartways with Canadian National Championships on the line. When the dust had finally settled and the last checkered flag had flown, Birel ART and Ricciardo karts claimed nine podium […]

Aug 23, 2018

With the 2018 season well past the halfway mark, Indianapolis, Indiana based Top Kart USA shows no sign of slowing down. Competing this past weekend at the Route 66 Sprint Series event at Concept Haulers Motor Speedway in Norway, Illinois, team drivers and customers secured six wins, eight podium results and eight pole positions as […]

Aug 22, 2018

In a continued effort to highlight the many outstanding performances by drivers around the country, eKartingNews.com is proud to introduce the ‘Driver of the Month’ program. Each month, the staff at EKN will determine the one driver who stood out above the rest and give the viewers a chance to know exactly what they accomplished […]

Aug 22, 2018

Joining forces with the Leading Edge Motorsports program for the start of the Superkarts! USA (SKUSA) Pro Tour, Deuk Spine Institute driver Arias Deukmedjian completed his season triumph two weeks ago by claiming the X30 Junior National Championship. On the strength of a pair of victories, multiple podium results and a pole position throughout the […]

Aug 22, 2018

It was the final event weekend of the Superkarts! USA (SKUSA) Pro Tour as Speed Concepts Racing (SCR) descended on the New Castle Motorsports Park facility for rounds five and six of the 2018 program. With championships on the line, SCR branded drivers were focusing on race wins and podium results as the racing season […]

Aug 21, 2018

The ninth season of the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour came to a end with the 2018 SummerNationals held at the New Castle Motorsports Park. The Pro Tour finale has found a new home in New Castle, Indiana, with the nine IAME and Stock Honda categories crowning the 2018 champions after Round Five and Six were […]

Aug 21, 2018

There is no telling how the standings will finish out the year for the 2018 eKartingNews.com TaG Driver Rankings Powered by Bell Racing USA. With each release of the standings, there is movement from nearly all 400 drivers with an improvement here, or a disappointing result there. And as the season draws to a close, […]

Aug 21, 2018

Hoosier Tire is proud to offer a contingency program to reward those drivers competing in the King of the Streets race at the 2018 Rock Island Grand Prix. The program details are outlined below: $1000.00 to win or $500.00 to the highest finisher The contingency payout will be awarded based on the following criteria: Driver […]

Aug 21, 2018

The second Competition of the 2018 FIA Karting European Championship – Superkart offered great fights at the TT circuit Assen (NLD), on 18th and 19th August in front of a huge audience. Although Peter Elkmann, the defending champion, seemed to dominate the racing, against all odds the outcome of the second race on Sunday opens […]

Aug 20, 2018

The final chapters of the 2018 karting season is upon us as we begin to close out the month of August. Kids are heading back to school, and the racing schedule is starting to slow down with the national programs closing up their final rounds, along with the regional and club series around the country. […]

Aug 17, 2018

For good portion of the 1990s, Elkhart, Indiana was on the national map regarding karting. The famed Elkhart Grand Prix was one of the largest events in all of karting, attracting hundreds of racers, thousands of fans, and gaining television time on ESPN. Many factors brought the race to a closure, however, the memories remained […]

Aug 16, 2018

Devon Rayment of Beamsville won his second Kart Feature of 2018 in the Southern Ontario Modified Lite Racing Association Senior Animal while Chris Crowe of St. Catharines won his second straight in the RCM Racing Equipment Junior 2  Divisions respectively. In other Performance Manufacturing Divisional Action … 3 days after former Merrittville Karter Mat Williamson […]

Aug 16, 2018

Four of the racers entered in this year’s annual American Kart Racing Association’s (AKRA) Nicholson Speedway Nationals presented by VEGA Tires, were double winners. Alstead, NH based Matthew Winter won each days 206 Cadet class on the ¼-mile asphalt road course. Saturday the 13-year-old double winner won with an 8.987 seconds cushion over second place […]