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Part 1 of the 2021 Divisional Schedule is announced!

2021 will be the biggest year in CKNA’s history. Last week, we announced the addition of a second National event being held at Charlotte Motor Speedway in March. In addition to that, there are some more surprises we have lined up that have us extremely excited for what 2021 will bring. With all this big news, we have decided to spread out the schedule release over the course of a few days. Trust us, it will be worth it! Today, we release the first part of our 2021 divisional schedule, which will mark our return to two tracks that CKNA was not able to race at last season: Concept Haulers Motor Speedway April 30th – May 2nd  (Sheridan Illinois) CKNA

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The 2021 Spring Nationals will be at Charlotte Motor Speedway!

CKNA announces its National event schedule, including Grand Nationals 5 and the all new Spring Nationals at Charlotte Motor Speedway in NC Cup Karts North America is pleased to announce our 2021 National Race schedule, which includes Grand Nationals 5 and the Spring Nationals at Charlotte Motor Speedway in March! This will be Cup Kart’s first visit to the newly renovated Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is rapidly becoming one of the premier facilities on the South. The official press release is available to view by clicking the image above Inside, you will find some of the early details about both events. Although this will not be the first time CKNA has held a Spring Nationals event, the 2021 revival of

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GN4 Track Layout

After a lot of deliberation, the decision has been made to run GN4 on the same configuration as last years edition of the race. Although our earlier visit to NCMP offered us the opportunity to explore some new configurations, we wanted to make sure that the layout used for this important event was well suited create the tight racing we saw last year, as well allow for large fields to compete safely. We do have two other layouts in consideration for 2021, and can say with near certinty that GN5 WILL be on a new configuration!

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CupKarts Live Stream returns for 2020 Grand Nationals

We’re pleased to confirm that the 2nd installment of CupKarts Live will be broadcast once again from New Castle Motorsports Park for Grand Nationals 4! Returning as our broadcast provider will be ISC Sports, one of Indiana’s leading sports broadcasting companies. GN3 was their first venture into kart racing, and they we;re thrilled with the oppratunity to return to televise our event again! There will be multiple places to watch Grand Nationals 4 if you are unable to attend the race. We will be setting up live streams on Facebook, CupKarts.com and ISC’s streaming service as well. This means that your friends and family can root you on while you race! If you’d like to see some of last years action,

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Grand Nationals 4

Added qualifying session for late arrivals

Even though the rumor mill had been churning for quite some time regarding us moving to a Friday Qualifying format in 2020, the announcement caught some people off guard. Unexpectedly, this meant that a handful of people were put into a position where they may not be able to attend. There have been a few people that have reached out to tell us that for a multitude of reasons, taking the extra day off of work was not an option. Quite a few of them sited the Corona Virus restrictions at work, in which their employers had blocked off any additional days off requests. Given these crazy times, we wanted to figure out a way to make sure that these

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Class adjustment for GN4

In an earlier press release, we announced the addition of an Ignite class to the Grand Nationals 4 schedule. We regret to inform everybody that the decision has been made to remove the class from the event. We have received many requests over the years to add this class to the largest 4-cycle only event of the season. This year’s schedule volatility due the Corona virus pandemic caused many events to be canceled, including events that a number of these racers planned to attend. Knowing that the racers for this class had far fewer opportunities to run large events in 2020, we added the class. We felt we had the room to accommodate them due to the adjustment in our

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GN4 Class announcement and Schedule Change

We are just over a month away from the 4th running of Cup Karts North America’s Grand Nationals, and it’s time to start laying out the event structure and format for 2020. Each year, the event has evolved from the previous based on feedback from our officials and racers. Based on the feedback, we will run Qualifying on Friday this year, after practice concludes. This will allow us the flexibility in the schedule needed to accommodate more racers, split large classes and deal with weather delays if they occur. Here is a general outline of the weekends activities: Thursday –  Move in day (Registration, Pre-Tech and Tire Pickup open) Friday –  Practice Rounds and Qualifying (Registration, Pre-Tech and Tire Pickup

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CKNA Updates, Registration open for Road America

There’s quite a bit to talk about as the 2020 season starts to wind down. So here’s an update about all things CKNA:. First and foremost, we’ve had quite a few inquiries about the well being of the Junior driver that was injured in Sunday’s feature race. We are happy to say he is home and doing well! He had a follow up visit with his regular physician that also went very well, and we hope to see the entire family back at the track very soon! The 2020 season is already winding down, and we have just opened registration for our final Champions Cup Divisional race at Road America in Elkart Lake, WI! This will be the first time

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Last Chance in 2020 for Senior Open

When CKNA started all those years ago, we developed the rulebook to mix the traditional 4-stroke bodywork with the more modern CIK style. It worked well, and we had great events everywhere we went. As the CIK bodywork became more prevalent, we added CIK specific classes to accommodate the racers that preferred not to race against the other style bodywork for a variety of reasons. As the years have passed, many of the racers have changed over to CIK, and the number of traditional bodywork karts have dwindled. Still, we promised that we would have a place for these racers to race so long as they kept coming. Fast forward today, we had to cancel the first class in CKNA

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We hear you!!! Changes to classes and schedule for NCMP

Over the past week, we had heard some concerns about the race length’s at NCMP this coming weekend. Although these races were the same in estimated time on track, there were racers that did not like having heat races of only 5 laps. We quickly tried to gauge how many racers felt this way snd sent out a survey to our database: As you can see, in typical CupKarts fashion, it was perfectly split on opinions. So while racking our brains to come up with a solution that didn’t have us racing until 8pm each day, we received an email from one of our competitors who had an idea. She noted that the class she usually competes in (Senior Open)

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