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The Cup Karts North division schedule is complete!

Thank you for your patience while we hammered out the 2021 schedule. With all the obstacles from 2020 and potential bumps in the road for 2021, we wanted to take our time and make sure we put together the most entertaining schedule for our racers with the best probabilities of running as planned for the coming season. Whiteland Raceway Park May 21st – 23rd (Whiteland Indiana) Another track we unfortunately had to miss in 2020, Whiteland Raceway Park’s resurgence in karting makes it a no brainer for us again in 2021. Sarah and Andy have done so much to bring this historic track back to the forefront of karting in the Midwest, we look forward to stuffing the pits with

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2021 CKNA Class Structure

The time has come for the transition towards CIK only… After the dust settles each season , we take a deep dive into the data from each of our events as well as events from the surrounding areas. We look for trends in each individual class as well as the multiple areas we draw from to help us decide if we need to adjust anything for the upcoming season. As much as we want to minimize changes for our racers from year to year, we need to make sure that CKNA’s rules are structured in a way to foster our continued growth while still maintaining a fair AND competitive environment. What we learned this off season was a something that

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Introducing: Cup Karts South!

Today is a monumental day for Cup Karts North America. We are pleased to announce an all new divisional racing series, focusing on the Southeast portion of the country! Over the past seven years, we have been developing our divisional program into what has become the nation’s largest and most competitive traveling sprint series offering 4-cycle classes. Those seven years have seen many refinements along the way to better the series including race formats, rules and personnel. Throughout all the changes, our commitment to putting racers first has been the guiding principle that has propelled our growth while still maintaining our fair and family friendly environment. It is no secret that we have looked at expanding into other markets in

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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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