Jul 11, 2023

It’s the halfway point of the 2023 season as we enter the month of July with a full six months of racing into the books. We now head into the second half of the year, with championships at the national, regional, and club level all to be decided in the coming months. The annual Major […]

Jun 16, 2023

For each OutLap podcast on the EKN Radio Network, we have a ‘By the Numbers’ segment to discuss the entry total for the event, breaking the total down per category. In the recent show previewing the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour SpringNationals, we were talking about the numbers for X30 Junior and KA100 Junior. The latter […]

May 31, 2023

It’s been a quick four months since the start of the 2023 season. As soon as we get through the holidays in December, karting is quickly back in action with the annual running of the WKA Daytona KartWeek in Florida. That event has been the traditional start to what is a busy three months in […]

Mar 01, 2023

The Challenge of the Americas made history, hosting the first-ever race for the new global engine platform established by the FIA Karting – the OK-N. It has been less than a year from the day the international sanctioning body for kart racing announced this new platform to the class and engine hitting the track for […]

Jan 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023 everyone! I’m excited to begin covering my 19th season of karting here in the United States and around the world. A lot has changed in the sport since the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 when I began my tenure as Managing Editor of EKN. Thankfully, for the most part, […]

Dec 13, 2022

It’s now been over three weeks since SuperSunday concluded the historic Superkarts! USA SuperNationals 25,  and I have finally been able to take a breath, catch up on work, enjoy a Thanksgiving break, and begin looking ahead to the 2023 season. Before moving forward to a new year, I wanted to reflect on things that […]

Nov 16, 2022

It is here…Superkarts! USA SuperNationals 25! This is an event that’s been on the calendar for just over 11 months now, from the day we closed out SuperSunday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for SuperNationals 24. There is no other karting event like it in North America and, to be honest, the world. All […]

Jul 19, 2022

The halfway point of the 2022 season has past us, and we’re now into the month of July and looking to close out with the second half of the season. July is the halfway point in the calendar, and wraps up an intense six months of racing across the United States. The annual Major League […]

Jun 22, 2022

The recent joint statement from ROK Cup USA, Superkarts! USA and the United States Pro Kart Series regarding a working relationship has sparked much interest in our community, and not surprisingly, it has brought up past discussions and new conversation regarding the sport of karting here in the USA. What sparked this new endeavor? First […]

Dec 29, 2021

There is no doubt that 2020 was one of the more difficult years in decades for everyone around the world, which not surprisingly impacted the sport of karting – both positively and negatively. Depending on the region or area in which you reside, karting was affected one way or another. After dealing with the initial […]

Nov 22, 2021

As I begin writing this column on a Sunday evening, I do so with mixed emotions. The first is frustration, as the Chicago Bears just lost another game all because of blown defensive coverage. The second is joy, as Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means a massive meal is coming on Thursday as […]

Jul 27, 2021

We are past the mid-point of the 2021 karting season, now into the month of July. Each year, the Major League Baseball holds their All-Star Game, welcoming some of the top players from the season from each team to fill up two squads to compete against one another. With that in mind, I thought it […]

Jul 02, 2021

2021 has the distinction of featuring the most times I have been to road racing events in the last decade. Back in April, I had the honor of providing our EKN Trackside coverage for the World Karting Association Vega Road Racing Series event that was part of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Karting Challenge in Concord, […]

Mar 13, 2021

Today, March 13, 2021 marks the one-year anniversary of our sport and the world coming to a standstill at the beginning of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic. One year ago, many of the same teams, drivers, mechanics and families that are here at the United States Pro Kart Series opener in Ocala, Florida, were […]

Sep 17, 2020

Today’s date – September 17, 2020 – marks the 20th anniversary of the day that the electronic doors opened at eKartingNews.com. It was during the 2000 Superkarts! USA World Finals in Norman, Oklahoma that EKN was born. Yes, current EKN Publisher Rob Howden was trackside announcing the event, but he was there with Shifter Kart […]

Apr 13, 2020

During this forced downtime of not going to the race track, I have been able to catch up on my Netflix playlist. Sitting in there for some time was the second season for ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’. Many of us in the karting world are F1 fans, and I think this show over the […]

Apr 08, 2020

We are nearing the end of the fourth week of ‘Stay at Home’ movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I have mixed emotions of how the time has passed. It feels like forever that I was trackside at NOLA Motorsports for the Superkarts! USA Pro Tour WinterNationals before watching the paddock tear down that Friday […]

Mar 27, 2020

One sector of the motorsports world that is getting a boost during this COVID-19 pandemic is eSports. Racers and racing fans all over the world are locked down to help stop the spread of the virus, and to keep within the ‘social distancing’ guidelines laid down by local and state authorities. This has amped up […]

Mar 24, 2020

To say this week has been extraordinary is an understatement. As we completed our first full week of ‘social distancing’ during this COVID-19 pandemic, we are all trying to find activities to keep ourselves busy and to not simply lay out on the couch watching reruns of The Office (I limit myself to two episodes […]

Mar 17, 2020

The past week has been a period of extraordinary implications due to the wave of the COVID-19 virus around the world and, of course, into the United States. As I begin writing this column, I am on my way home from New Orleans on a Saturday, a day in which we should be watching the […]