WKA - Karting Scene - 2013 February Issue

THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE WORLD KARTING ASSOCIATION FEBRUARY 2013 VOL. 43, NO.2

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ROEBLING ROAD HOSTS ROUND TWO OF 2013 ROAD RACING SERIES

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By Todd King/ K.R.A.P.P. Photos

The second round of the 2013 WKA VEGA Tire / TS Racing Road Racing Series driv-en by Mazda, put on by the World Karting

Association was at Roebling Road Raceway Feb-ruary 8-10 in Bloomingdale, Ga. A great story was done in the Georgia Pines. As all the karters congregated to Georgia, we found that Mother Na-ture was playing havoc on all the travel plans to and from Roebling Road, including a major snow

storm in New England that several Northeast-ern-based karters drove away from in order

to race at Roebling.

The karters arrived on Thursday to heavy rains and puddles of water, but luckily, the rain was short lived only to Thursday and Thursday night. The crews’ spirits were not down; everyone was looking forward to the weekend.

Roebling Road is nestled in the Georgia Pines about 20 miles west of Savannah., with a sweep-ing track design that totals 2.02 miles in length. One of the challenging factors of Roebling Road is the left and right turns are flat and off cambered. In this mixture, you have tons of G Forces that will take its toll on all the racers in some shape, form, and fashion.

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After the turns, you now have to deal with traffic and the long straight away. Need for speed? You betcha.

In asking questions about the race weekend, many of the teams had different strategies and game plans to go fast here. Three major factors to go fast around Roebling Road were: Horsepower, handling, and patience. Horsepower, many differ-ent engine builders in 4 cycle and 2 cycle, teams were very positive about their engine programs.

As the weekend progressed, saw many engine problems from twisted cranks, rocker arms, rods, pistons, plugs, ignition parts, and too many to list. Handling was big in the shifters and laydowns as the weekend started. By race day, most everyone was ready to battle the road course. After every practice, teams constantly worked on the front end and rear. Even when the day was over, teams shared ideas to find a better way around Roebling Road. Patience, well, you cannot win on the first lap or the start of the race. Every karter on the track has a different way to get around. You have to show patience to maneuver around the com-petition to be first across the checker flag in your class.

As Friday morning practice started, the weather was on the cool side, the sun was coming over the horizon. Karters were still bundled up in their coats, and the early part of practice was an open session venue due to the overnight rains. The cool track temperatures made many of the teams change some things on the kart, or wait till later in the practice day to practice.

“No grip,” were the two words heard in the garage area. Head winds were blowing down the straight away, so gearing was an issue on this day also. Most of the day was a safe race day. There were several racing incidents on the track. Couple of roll overs, but no one was injured. Just the driv-er’s pride, and kart cosmetic damage. The sun set on Roebling Road, and karts were covered up, and several teams were still working on their ma-chines. Good luck to all on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday morning start at Roebling Road, Moth-er Nature was going to have a beautiful race day in store for the karters. Little chill at the drivers meeting, but things were about to heat up. Driv-ers and crews had their game plans together and ready to battle. Two rounds of practice saw limit-ed karts in each practice. Most teams were shak-

ing the kart down, for preparation of their specific class race. So let the races begin!

SaturdayRace 1: Race 1 started about 10:00 a.m., with great rac-ing conditions. Seventeen karts started the race. There were no issues and troubles at the start. Brad Zoeller posted the fast time for this race at 94.587 m.p.h. The race is 30 minutes long.

CIK 125 Shifter 1: Three competitors started the event, all three karts at the end of lap one were nose to tail. In the end, congratulations to Richard White with the victory. Stephen Rougeou finished second, and Donald Santini finishing thrird.

WKA 125 Shifter 1: Congratulations to Brad Zo-eller for the victory and quick time in the race.

Tag Heavy Final 1: Three racers started the class, with Emmitt Rodriguez winning the race. Brian Butler finished second, one lap down. Adrian Dale finished third several laps down.

Open Sprint 1: Two karters started, with two karters finishing. Congratulations to Nelson Hicks winning his class. William Evans finished second.

DD2 1: Two competitors started with Jeff Futch crossing the checker flag first, with Allan Dawson finishing second, two laps down.

SKC LO 206 385: Five karters started this class. It was a very competitive race. In the end, Dennis Claunch finished first. Jamie Webb finished sec-ond, 21.168 seconds behind. Jeff Webb finished a close third 21.200 seconds behind Jamie Webb.

Race 2:Race 2 started about 10:52 a.m., with the weather in the low 50’s and light wind. Nine racers started the event. Congratulations to Matt Michel who posted quick time for the race at 88.127 m.p.h. The race is 45 minutes in length.

Sleeper Racing Team 100cc Controlled Spec 1: Congratulations to Jason Standridge for winning the race.

Dart Kart Club 100cc Pipe Heavy: Two competi-tors started the class with Mallory Davis win-ning over Anthony Vaccaro by 13 laps.


Hoosier Racing Tire Yamaha Sportsman Lite: Six competitors started this class, with fast time set-ter, Matt Michel finishing in first place. Courtney Atkinson finished second, one lap down. David Libby finished third, close to 38 seconds behind the second place finisher.

Race 3: Race 3 started with no troubles at the starting line. All eight competitors started in the race. Quick time was set by Jeffery Metter at 97.966 m.p.h. Still a wonderful day of racing weather wise. Race was 30 minutes long.

Unlimited Final 1: Four competitors started the race today. Jeff Standridge was the winner of

the class. Scott Loewenstine finished second 1:08.596 seconds behind the winner. Quick

time setter Jeffery Metter finished third

8 laps down.

Stock Honda 1: Race had four competitors to start the race. In the end Brian Fischer finished first. Carson Miller finished a close second 2.109 sec-onds behind. Stephen Flatt finished third one lap behind.

Race 4:After a lunch break the 4 cycles broke the silence of the track. The race started about 1:29 p.m. Twenty one karters started the race. The biggest class of the day. Quick time was set by John Jeri-erski at 83.256 m.p.h. Everyone got off the line with no troubles. Race was 30 minutes long.

TaG Final 1: Congratulations to Brian Butler for winning the class.


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WKA Sprint 1: Congratulations to John Jezierski who set quick time and winning his class.

Animal Sprint 335: Eight competitors started the race. Good race at the beginning. Zachary Linsell was victorious in the end. Sam Sheckells finished second 13.549 seconds behind. Blake Beattie finished third 14.166 behind Linsell. This was Blake’s first time behind the wheel in almost two decades.

Hoosier Racing Tire Animal Sprint 385: Biggest class of the day with eleven drivers starting the race. Top two racers started off together and stayed together the whole thirty minutes and settled it at the line. Kevin Darling won the race, with Kevin Colborn finishing a close second by 0.029 seconds. Great finish. Bill Lewis finished third one lap down.

Race 5:The laydowns took to the track with eleven karters in the race. Congratulations to Courtney Atkinson for setting quick time of 94.291 m.p.h. The race was set for 45 minutes. Great start to the race with only one competitor not starting the event.

Agile Group, Inc. 100cc Conttrolled Final 1: Con-gratulations to Courtney Atkinson who set quick time and won the class. Lance Yunck finished second 4 laps down. Scott Goodman finished third. Scott Goodman was DQ at post race, for not weighing.

AM Motorsports Yamaha Sportsman Heavy: Seven karters started the race at the line. Matt Michel finished first in the class on a lap by him-self. David Libby finished second. Wilshire Walkup finished a close third, only 0.21 seconds behind Libby.

SKC 4-Cycle Enduro 1: Congratulations to Marie Libby for winning the class. Libby was DQ after the race for not weighing.

Race 6:As the day was coming to a close, fourteen karters took to the track for this race. Quick time was set by Jonathan Tedder with a speed of 84.281 m.p.h. in his hot rod. The race was scheduled for 30 min-utes.

Yamaha Sportsman Lite: Two competitors started

the event with the win going to Jimmy Duguay. Courtney Atkinson finished second only running one lap of competition.

Animal Limited Modified 385: The race started out with four competitors bidding for the win. After the dust had settled Charlie Wilbur crossed the finish line first. Dominic Greco finished sec-ond, one lap down to Wilbur. Dennis Smith fin-ished Third behind Greco. Tedder dropped out with major engine problems.

Junior Sprint Lite: Congratulations to Clay Gilbert for winning the class.

Animal Junior Sprint Lite: Congratulations to Will Delaney for his victory in the class.

Clone 335: Congratulations to Jacob Scott for win-ning the class.

Clone 385: Five competitors started the class. Tim Gallagher finished first on a lap by himself. At post race inspection Gallagher was DQ for weigh-ing too light. Joe Cuslidge finished first after post race DQ of Gallagher. Darren Greene finished sec-ond, 0.848 seconds behind Cuslidge. Paul Smith finished third 0.463 seconds behind Greene. Great Race.

Race 7:Now the sun was starting to set on the race track, with many shadows around the course. The time was 3:54 p.m. when the race started. Scheduled for 30 minutes, after racers and officials talked, the race was cut to 10 minutes. Quick time was set by Scott Goodman with a speed of 80.392 m.p.h.

B Stock: Congratulations to Scott Goodman who set quick time and winning the class.Formula 125: Congratulations to Fran Mazzuco-telli for the victory in his class.

Dart Kart Club 100cc Yamaha Medium: Congratu-lations to Lance Yunck for his victory in the class.

Now the day is over. The 4 Cycle classes had the most competition for the day. Laydowns and Shifters were competitive in every aspect of their classes. Some chassis set ups were wrong, engine issues were dominate in all the classes. Racing incidents did occur during the day. Going back to the keys of Roebling Road, horsepower, handling and patience. Some got it, some


did not. See everyone tomorrow for Sunday’s races and practice. A total of 82 karts took to the track today, thanks to everyone for their partici-pation at Roebling Road.

As the Sunday morning sunrise developed over Roebling Road, things were really looking good for race day. Crews and drivers were making last minute changes to their karts for today’s action. Weights were added and some were taken off the karts for the class weight rules. Tires were changed, engines were changed and tuned, put the karts on the ground and let’s see what hap-pens.

A quick drivers meeting, two rounds of practice, and lets go racing. Once again, practice was a quick tune up and shake down of the karts for to-day’s action. One quick incident raised the red flag during practice, in the end everyone involved was good to go. Remembering the three keys for today is, horsepower, handling, and patience. Let’s hope the karters remember the keys.

Race 1:The start of race 1 was at 10.21 a.m., weather was good, track was clear, and eleven karts took the green flag. The race length was 30 minutes. Set-ting quick time for the race was Scott Goodman with a speed of 95.302 m.p.h.

Unlimited Final 2: Two fast karters took to the track, and it quickly became a one show. Congrat-ulations to Scott Goodman who won the race class and set quick time for the race event. Second place went to Jeff Standridge who after one lap was done for the class.

Stock Honda 2: After some trials and tribulations to the Stock Honda class, the same four karters started today’s class event. In the end Brian Fisher was victorious over second place driver

Carson Miller, who was 16.919 seconds behind. Third place went to Stephen Rougeou who

finished 26.450 seconds behind the lead-

er Fisher.

SKC LO 206 360: Five of the local option racers started the event eager to race hard against each other. Dennis Claunch crossed the finish line in first. Followed by the potiential second place driv-er Joe Cuslidge by 0.136 seconds. After post-race tech, Joe Cuslidge was DQ with a exhaust pipe that was not approved. So, second and third place was a fantastic finish. Second place went to Jeff Webb who was 44.939 seconds behind Claunch. Third place went to Ryan Snyder. Second and third was a photo finish. Webb beat Snyder by 0.004 secs at the line. Fantastic.

Race 2:After the one hour quiet time, the racers were ready to step back on the track for head to head competition. The race started at 12:07 p.m., which was scheduled for 45 minutes. Six com-petitors start the race event. Weather was good, wind was up. Quick time was set by Jim Fry with a speed of 93.207 m.p.h.

100cc Controlled 2: The class had two competitors start the race. Courtney Atkinson finished first in the class. Jim Fry finished second by 3.005 sec-onds. The two stayed nose to tail most of the race.

100cc Yamaha Heavy: Two competitors started the class with Arthur McKenny finishing first for the class. Anthony Vaccaro finished second. After the race Vaccaro was DQ because he did not weigh in.

100cc Pipe Medium: Two competitors started this class, with Mallory Davis coming out victorious at the finish line. Fran Mazzucotelli finished second by 43.456 behind Davis.

Race 3:Now in the third race the shifters take to the track at 1:00 p.m. Thirteen karters took the green flag for their 30 minute race. Stephen Rougeou set quick time in the race with a speed of 93.485

m.p.h.

CIK 125 Shifter 2: Four competitors started the race with Carson Miller crossing the finish line first. Steven Rougeou crossed the line in second two laps down. Richard White finished third a dis-tant 17 laps down.

TaG Heavy 2: Three competitors started the class event today. Adrian Dale finished first in the class. Emmitt Rodriguez finished second, one lap down to Dale. Distant third was Brian Butler who was 18 laps down. After the post-race inspection, Bri-an Butler was DQ for not weighing after the race.

SKC Open Sprint 2: Three competitors start at the line. In the end William Evans finished first in the class. Kim Baker finished second 11 laps down to Evans. Nelson Hicks finished third. Nelson Hicks was DQ for not weighing after the race.

SKC DD2 #2: Two racers had the opportunity to race the course. In the end, Jeff Futch was victori-ous over Allan Dawson, who finished one lap down to Futch.

Race 4:At 1:36 p.m. race 4 was underway. Nine racers were ready to battle the course for the day. The race is scheduled for 30 minutes in length. Dennis Smith set quick time for the race, with a speed of 84.281 m.p.h.

Yamaha Sprint Heavy: Congratulations to Jimmy Duguay for winning the race.

Animal Limited Modified 360: Three competitors start the class with Charlie Wilbur finishing first. Dominic Greco finished second, one lap down to Wilbur. Dennis Smith finished third, 10 laps down to Wilbur.

Clone 360: In the class, three racers started even at the start. Darren Greene finished first, with Wesley Delaney finishing second. Delaney was 20.305 seconds behind Greene. Paul Smith finished third. Smith was 0.034 seconds behind Delaney at the line.

WKA Sprint 2: Congratulations to John Jezierski for winning the class.

Race 5:The race started at 2:12 p.m. Eight racers were lined up at the start for the 45 minute race. Quick time was set by Courtney Atkinson, with a speed of 87.469 m.p.h. Time for the laydowns to battle the race course.

SKC 4 Cycle Enduro 1: Congratulations to Merie Libby for winning the class. After post race in-spection, Libby was DQ for weighing to lite.

CKI Yamaha Sportsman Medium: Seven racers started the late afternoon race at the starting line. In the end, Matt Michel was victorious in the class. David Libby finish second, over two laps down. Wilshire Walkup finished third, 15.811 sec-onds behind Libby.


Race 6:Race six is the final race of the day, 18 racers are ready to battle the shadows and the start of the sunset at Roebling Road. The race is scheduled for a 30 minute ride. David Clevenger set quick time in the race. Clevengers speed was, 80.513 m.p.h.

TaG Final 2: Congratulations to Brian Butler for winning the class.

MGM-Moon Power Animal Sprint 360: Time for the 4 cycles to turn and burn. David Clevenger finished first in the class, and also set quick time. Sam Sheckells finished second, 0.095 seconds behind Clevenger. Jonathan Tedder finished third 0.012 seconds behind Sheckells.

Animal Sprint 410: Four racers start the race this afternoon. In the end Steve Jeffers was

victorous at the checker flag. Jamie Webb finished second, 0.505 seconds behind Jef-

fers. Third place goes to Adam Ross,

who was one lap down.

The weekend is now over for all the racing. All that is left to do, is pack up the trailers, tell every-one what fun it was, and the journey back home. In both days of racing, the three keys to winning at Roebling Road were very important to all the racers. If you missed one out of the two keys, vic-tory lane was no where to be found. If you missed two out of the three, then you were in the pits ear-ly and out of the race. Horsepower, handling, and patience, you need all three to win. 147 karters circled the race surface this weekend, 31 winners for the weekend. Congratulations to those that won more than one race. This is a very hard to do, so here are the ones that accomplished that task:

Two Class winners: Jeff Futch, Dennis Claunch, Mallory Davis, Brian Fischer, Brian Butler, John Jezierski, Courtney Atkinson, Jimmy Duguay, Charlie Wilbur, Will Delaney, Scott Goodman. What a awesome group here. Great job to all.


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Three class winner: Matt MichelThe Road Racing Series now leaves the Georgia area. The next Road Race will be at one of our favorite places to race, Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC. Last year saw some thrills and spills at the race track.

Very challenging in all turns and straight aways. Everyone don’t forget turn eight...... good luck. This facility also had the Road Racing Banquet last year too. Road Racing also shared the facili-ty with the Man-Cup series, so there is plenty of racing for everyone to do and to watch.

Make your plans now, with your family, crews, and competitors. The dates are, April 5-7, 2013. It is time to put the camera down and put the pen away, till the Kershaw date. Hope to see everyone again. Bring a friend, bring a kart, get involved in karting. WKA is moving forward. Till next time, God speed to all, and safe journeys to and from any racing facility.

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Troy Duncan’s Dyno Cams Tri-State Pro Series ran its first race in the 2013 calendar year February 2-3 at Henry

Moree’s beautiful new 95/38 Paradise Race-way. The race came a little over a month after Tri-State officially opened its new competition year December 27-30 at WKA’s Dirt World Championships at the Daytona Int’l Speedway Flat Track.

Over 820 entries at Daytona preceded over 1100 entries at Paradise. Most of those en-tries were Saturday classes, as only a handful of classes ran Friday night, meaning a long but fruitful day for many on a chilly first Sat-urday of February in the Florence, S.C., area.

A big $20,013-To-Win Carolina 100 for senior Clone competitors headlined

the event. Nearly 90 drivers took time for 100-lapper, which saw Stephanie Pitts grab the pole. In the main event Daniel Armstrong, driving the Tod Miller No. 96 Phantom, fend-ed off a hard challenge from Jonathan Cash over the last 20-plus laps to score the big win.

While Pitts faded and eventually retired early from the Carolina 100, she raced her entry to a $1,000 score in the much-anticipated “Fast-est Woman in Town” 30-lapper. Pitts started from the pole and led the entire race, but not without stiff competition from several other female racers.

The women’s class boasted over 30 entries and its success at Paradise has led Tri-State officials to add the class to round two of the series in Neeses, S.C., this March.

TRI-STATE PRO SERIES ATTRACTS OVER 1100 EN-TRIES AT PARADISE

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Other winners at Paradise included Brice Boatwright in Junior Clone Unrestrict-ed Heavy; Platinum chassis wheelman Justin McDonald in Stock Heavy; Austin Barn-hill in Junior Blue Heavy; Matt Craig in Hobby; Charger racer “Dirty Money” Shay Chavous in Stock Medium; Jesse Riggins in Junior Gold Light and Phantom pilot “Disco” Donnie Nall in Stock Champ Heavy.

WKA officials were in attendance at Paradise to provide live video coverage of the event, the first time live coverage was ever offered at a Tri-State Pro Series race.

Next up for the Tri-State is a March 9-10 date at Thunder Valley Motorplex in Nesses, S.C., the site of the 2012 Maxxis Nationals. The se-ries will hit Paradise two more times and the Georgia Karting Komplex once before closing the last weekend of September at Carolina 120 Speedway in North Carolina.

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Recent years have seen the World Karting Association’s once proud Speedway Dirt and Pavement national series diminish

throughout hard economic times and falling kart counts in both national programs.

In fact, the 2012 WKA national season featured only two oval-track national events – August’s Pavement Grand Nationals at Western New York’s Chapel Hill Raceway and December’s Dirt World Championships at the Daytona International Speedway Flat Track.

But both of those events were encouraging.

The Pavement Grand Nationals, which was flanked by a number of paved-oval divisional pro-grams in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, did not boast a strong entry count but WKA offi-cials saw a strong interest in the rebuilding of the series from many of the race teams and families in attendance.

The biggest WKA national in years occurred just a few months after the Chapel Hill Grand Nationals.

The Daytona Dirt World Championships featured over 820 entries and some of the best competition at a WKA Dirt national in recent memory. Seven-ty-two drivers entered the headline $10,000-To-Win Pro Clone class, which is believed to be the largest class field at a WKA national in over a decade.

The 2012 season, while quiet on an oval-track WKA national front, has the organization’s offi-cials with a deepened interest in the left-turn-only form of karting.

WKA announced in early February that it will promote three Speedway Pavement races in 2013 – two this summer at Chapel Hill and a fall show at Andy Hillenburg’s Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina. These events will feature a num-ber of exciting new features the series hasn’t seen in years, including multiple Pro races with a purse attached to each, extra-distance feature events and a host of additional classes in an attempt to attract local Pennsylvania and New York dirt talent to the Chapel Hill asphalt.

A WKA RESURGANCE IN OVAL-TRACK KARTING?

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The organization also announced in February that it will sanction and promote a second nation-al dirt event, tagged the Summer Nationals and likely at a venue in South Carolina or Georgia. The event will include several Pro classes that will run for respectable purses, and it likely will award Pro and trophy class feature winners with guaranteed starting spots in the aligning Pro class main event in December 2013 at Daytona.

WKA’s Keith Shampine, a former successful road race karter and supermodified racer from New York, has worked to help promote the dirt and pavement programs and has confidence in their directions over the next several years.

“When I ran the Road Racing Series in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, the talk always was about the Speedway Dirt and Pavement series,” Shamp-ine said. “I remember reading about the speedway events in the magazines and online, and when I started working at WKA in 2009, I was really dis-appointed to see the oval-track series struggling. We’re working to revive these programs, but it’s going to take a combination of new, out-of-the-box thinking and learning from other promoters who have offered strong series over the last few years.”

Shampine added that it wasn’t only the 2012 Day-tona Dirt event that enthused him, but the Chapel Hill Grand Nationals in August, as well.

“I lived in New York for 24 years but I’d never been to Chapel Hill,” Shampine admitted. “At the last minute I was assigned to go up there for the Grand Nationals last summer, and we didn’t have a good turnout. But what I saw was a group of good people and families who were having fun and immensely enjoying the time they were having.

“I also saw a great little race track with a lot of history from WKA’s prime in Speedway Pave-ment, and people who were interested in helping the series; they just needed to be approached. We’re approaching those people this year, and a lot more, and I believe with some new philoso-phies and promotions, we’re going to have a good couple events at Chapel this summer, and close it with a nice event at Rockingham in the fall.”

As for the Speedway Dirt, Shampine believes WKA had to do another race to keep the momen-tum rolling after 800-plus entries at Daytona.

“A lot of people on the east coast really want WKA to succeed in the dirt world. We have to be smart and grow at a reasonable pace. But you see 800 entries at Daytona and over a 1000 at Tri-State shows and some of these other big series, and it’s a no-brainer, WKA needs a presence and some sort of national dirt series – even if it’s only two or three races a year. Speedway Dirt karting is some of the best racing you’ll ever witness, and it pro-vides a great combination of a family atmosphere and very competitive, serious racing.”

WKA’s Speedway Pavement nationals will take place July 13 and August 9-11 at Chapel Hill and a TBD September or October weekend at Rocking-ham’s “Little Rock” quarter-mile. The WKA Dirt Summer Nationals will take place in either August or September with the Dirt World Championships closing the year December 28-30 at the Daytona Flat Track.

Official date announcements are coming soon to WorldKarting.com.

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