CUP KART NEWS

As most of our racers know, a new Penalty points system was introduced at Summer Nationals 2025. And while the majority of our supporters welcomed the new system, some expressed concerns with specifics in the rules, and how points are being allocated. A handful of racers have reached out to the CKNA staff to express these concerns, offering additional ideas or tweaks to make the system work better. Thank you to all that took the time to reach out and have calm, reasoned discussions with us. In the majority of the feedback, there were two consistent themes: Updated Penalty Points System PDF Multiple class runners: Many comments we received said that we are unfairly holding drivers running multiple classes to

Thank you to all that came to Summer Nats and supported the event. Our staff did an amazing job officiating the race and implementing the new penalty points system. While we will be making some tweaks to the entire process in the coming days, we believe we are heading in the right direction based on the feedback we’ve already received from competitors. As a part of our commitment to fostering a fair and family-friendly racing environment for all our competitors, CKNA will at times take additional steps after an event to ensure that these standards are upheld. We intentionally do this after an event, so all the officials involved have time to confer, ensuring we are as fair and consistent

Effective immediately, CKNA will be starting implementing a new Penalty Points System. CKNA runs a lot of races each year. That also means that we have different sets of officials that work each event. One of the downsides to that is that it can be very difficult to track a drivers penalty history and ensure that somebody whom is consistently finding their name up in lights on the penalty board may not get the additional consequences that we believe a habitual offender should receive. We are committed to doing everything in our power to provide our customers a safe and fair racing environment every time they attend one of our events. Thanks to the hard work of our staff and

As we always do, CKNA has updated the rule book for 2025. And while there are no major changes, we do highly recommend that you download the latest version from our RULES PAGE and familiarize yourself with them. Below you will find a list of the most noteworthy changes. Some are items that we had individually listed in event supplemental rules all last season, and others are items we wanted to address moving forward. These are the rules that will be in effect for the upcoming Spring Nationals. Noteworthy changes: Updated dates for Snell 2015 Helmets:  You got one more year! We received confirmation late last week the our insurance carrier (NKA) has extended the life-cycle of the 2015 helmets.

Well after all the fun getting the North Division’s schedule hammered out, we’re very happy to say that the East schedule is done and confirmed! We held off on releasing it just in case we had to make drastic changes in our other divisions, but thankfully we have gotten everything lined up with no conflicts with any of our other events! We really wanted to change things up a bit in the East for 2025. We are firm believers in rotating tracks through our schedule to keep things fresh as well as to support more facilities in the region. East this year will be featuring two new tracks to CKNA. One historic track that is under new ownership and making

We want to thank everybody for their patience while we have been sorting out the schedules this season. While we had been on track to announce the majority of our dates back in November, a handful of changes and conflicts sent us back to the drawing board. Thanks to the diligent work of the CKNA staff, and their willingness to adapt to our increasingly demanding schedule… we have finally solved the last of our conflicts. We are pleased to present your Official 2025 Cup Karts North Divisional Schedule: Round 1 – Whiteland, IN May 2nd – 4th Our season opener will kick off at Whiteland Raceway Park for our 2025 North Division season. WRP is one of the best tracks

#219 Chain for Kid Karts Since it’s inception, Kid Karts have been required to run #35 size chain with a specified 17 tooth driver and a 57 tooth gear. Eliminating the gearing from the equation allows the parents and drivers to focus on the basics of driving and we believe it is the best thing for drivers so early in their racing careers. A few weeks ago, it was brought to our attention that there are some newer chassis on the market that the 57T #35 rear sprocket will not clear the crossbar on the chassis. Unfortunately, the way this was discovered was that families getting into the sport had bought them not knowing of the fitment issue. As the