CUP KART NEWS

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

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

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)

We’re so excited to be celebrating Independence Day with all of our racing friends and family, that we’ve decided to pull out all the stops to ensure this is the biggest EK Chains Champions Cup Divisional race EVER! Thanks to the partnership with our new sponsor KartLift Kart Stands as well as many of our existing sponsors, we have been able to add a few additions to the weekend: Special Trophies and Prizes for Saturday, July 4th! We want to make sure that racing on the 4th of July is a special occasion. So to celebrate the top finishers of every class on Independence Day, we have commissioned special trophies . Also, Briggs and Stratton, Noram, RLV and a few

After gutting our schedule due to the Corona Virus, our revised announcement only set 3 dates for the 2020 Champions Cup season. As we had always said, we felt strongly that we needed a minimum of 4 races to continue to allow racers drops in the Championship Standings. This meant we needed to find a 4th race to squeeze into 2020. Admittedly, we were concerned it wouldn’t fit into the available weekends remaining in 2020. We have always done our best to work with other Midwest series and events to ensure racers wouldn’t have to choose between us and another race. We have also strove to allow enough off weekends between events to allow people time to recover from a

What can be said that hasn’t already been said about the Corona Virus Pandemic? It’s effects have been felt by everybody in our country, including our fellow kart racers. We hope that you and your loved ones are safe and getting by in these troubling times. Karting has been all but shut down for the past 2 months, and for us since Grand Nationals last October. There’s no surprise that determining when the right time to get back to normal has become the most polarizing topic in the news, social media and among our fellow racers. Furthermore, the different policies in each state has made determining the where just as difficult as the when part of the equation. Our opening

These are trying times for all of us. Whether or not you or somebody close to you has contracted the COVID-19 virus, we all have been undoubtedly affected in some way by this pandemic. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone during these unsettling times. We all are looking forward to returning to normal as soon as possible. For many of us, a big part of that is getting the CKNA family back to racing again. We hoped that our upcoming race at the East Lansing Kart Track would provide that for everybody. However, we regretfully are writing this letter to inform you that the second round of the 2020 CKNA Champions Cup season has been postponed. As some