Sep 24, 2025

As I worked in my office back in January, I had full intentions of pulling out my gear and racing in a handful of events in 2025. All the opportunities were there. We have a race-ready Briggs 206 kart in our EKN garage at New Castle Motorsports Park, and I had plans to get down […]

Sep 17, 2025

It’s funny when you look back at certain moments in your life and see how choosing just one road over another can completely change how your adventure develops. Today, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of eKartingNews.com, the website that I bought from its creators in 2004 to add to my portfolio of […]

Jun 18, 2025

Every few years, I decide that it’s time to write a new column focused on the world of professional motorsports and the significant costs involved in making the move from karting to car racing. I’ve been involved in numerous conversations recently with families asking how to find the funding to move their kids into car […]

Nov 10, 2024

As we get set to head to Las Vegas for the 27th running of the Superkarts! USA SuperNationals, I want to take an opportunity to congratulate and thank my Managing Editor David Cole on his 20 years of commitment to eKartingNews.com, Howden Media Group, and karting as a whole. David started with my company in […]

Sep 25, 2024

It’s hard to discount the stability that major events provide to our sport. Over the last 68 years, long-running national races have brought our community together like no other.  The United States is massive in terms of geography, but even so, major annual events have always been able to attract racers from coast-to-coast, and all […]

Sep 19, 2024

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘new and improved’ when it comes to products we buy at the store. But for the topic of this edition of ‘Morning Coffee’, when I mention ‘new and improved’, I’m preparing to discuss the positive momentum we have in our sport when it comes of karting facilities. For karting to […]

Sep 04, 2024

As I traveled home from Rock Island on Monday afternoon, my mind raced as I unpacked two days of action from the city’s streets. I pulled out my laptop on the flight from Chicago to Toronto and hammered out a bunch of words, downloading the thoughts in my head for a new column. Below are […]

Jul 26, 2023

During my first trackside coverage weekend of 2023, the opening rounds of the Superkarts! USA Winter Series, I chatted with Mike Rolison on the Thursday of the event. We looked back and reviewed my experience with his team (Rolison Performance Group) at the SuperNationals just two months prior and discussed my overall success of finishing […]

Dec 10, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 2 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 3 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 4 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 5 of the Drive to 25 series […]

Dec 08, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 2 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 3 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 4 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 5 of the Drive to 25 series […]

Nov 28, 2022

As we pushed down from the Rolison Performance Group tent to the fuel farm for the first practice session on Wednesday, the realization washed over me. This was actually happening. With three months of gym time and a ‘clean-ish’ eating program prepping me to be as ready as I could be, I about to participate […]

Nov 15, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 2 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 3 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 4 of the Drive to 25 series It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m in our room in a resort […]

Oct 26, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 2 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 3 of the Drive to 25 series Let me set the scene. It’s the 25th running of the American karting’s biggest race – the SKUSA SuperNationals. The promoter elects […]

Oct 20, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series Click HERE for Part 2 of the Driver to 25 series It’s been just over a month since my second ‘Drive to 25’ update, and I’ve been on the road for most of that time, attending karting and Road to Indy events all over […]

Sep 14, 2022

Click HERE for Part 1 of the Drive to 25 series. When I made the decision to race at this year’s SuperNationals, the very next move was deciding on the team that I’d hope to run with. We’re fortunate to work with, and enjoy the support of, so many fantastic teams and shops on eKartingNews.com. […]

Aug 31, 2022

A few weeks ago, on the urging of my Managing Editor David Cole, I made the decision to cross a big race off my personal bucket list. When I found out that Superkarts! USA had elected to offer the KA100 Master class at the 25th running of their annual SuperNationals, I was presented a very […]

Nov 18, 2020

I can’t say that I was surprised when Superkarts! USA made the announcement that they were canceling this year’s SuperNationals. Las Vegas was quickly hit hard with cancellations and closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, so I think we all expected that it was a possibility. That said, it was still tough to swallow […]

Mar 16, 2020

I’ve been in this sport for 25 years now, as a competitor and a journalist, and I’ve never experienced anything like the landscape that surrounds the ongoing evolution of COVID-19 and the government’s spectrum of reaction and associated social guideline implementations. ‘Self- isolation’ and ‘social-distancing’ have quickly become part of our dialect, and the levels […]

Oct 10, 2018

Today, a new promoter – W Series – announced a new women-only open wheel single-seater series with the stated intent of finding talented female race car drivers for potential graduation to Formula 1.  While reading through the responses to the announcement on social media – many negative, a lesser amount positive – my mind went […]

Dec 16, 2016

I grew up in the 70s and 80s; an age in which we did not have the luxury of instant accessibility to information nor could we watch just about any sporting event live by simply pressing a TV remote control or clicking of a mouse button of a computer.  The annual airing of the Daytona […]