Kartspeed Motorsports

We are back from Round 2 of the Winter Chill Series held at Adams Kart Track in Riverside.

For those of you who were there, it was great to see everyone.

I was expecting a minimal turnout. It's cold this time of year, it's a winter series, not a regular race season and it's in Riverside CA, not the grape vineyards and opulence of Sonoma CA.
Compared to ROK Sonoma, the race was HUGE. For those of you that race at Sonoma, wow, what a difference. 140 entries, compared to Sonoma's average of 60-75 drivers and a lot of very friendly track stewards and competitors. And everyone managed to race competitively…well, almost everyone, without taking people out and crashing. That includes a grid of 40 Senior 100cc drivers! In my opinion, Sonoma really needs to step it up…a LOT! Better racing and better people are out there in the kart racing game.
So if you are thinking about racing this winter, there is one round left for the Winter Chill Series.
Contact me if you have any questions.

The Kartspeed Motorsports drivers Colin McGrath (Senior Shifter), Torsten Olsen (Senior Shifter) and Tray Stapford (100cc Masters) all drove well and appeared to have quite a bit of fun too!

Colin was super impressive, finishing P-2 in the main amongst both the lower hp Vortex ROK Shifter engines and the higher horse powered KZ engines, even matching the lap time of the race winners KZ!

In Open Shifter (the class they run at this series) Colin qualified P-2 and Torsten qualified P-3 only .2 back from Colin. Keep in mind this is Torstens very first shifter race. He has only a handful of test days in his new Croc Promotion Shifter chassis, and this was his first race weekend. So a huge congratulations to Torsten and his excellent speed!

The heat race saw Torsten finish P-2! Yes second place in his first heat race as a shifter driver. Applause please!
Colin finished right behind in third place.
The KZ of Slava Prikhodko (Croc Promotion driver as well) went from P-2 in the early stages of the heat race to a DNF…. blown engine. : (

For the main, the leading KZ rolled off track with a DNF (blow engine I believe) and Slava roared from the back of the grid to P-1 winning the race for Croc Promotion. Colin, as previously mentioned, was blasting around the track and finished P-2 behind Slava. Again, great job!
Torsten finished the main event in P-4. First shifter race ever and a P-4 amongst several KZ powered entries…. that was a great job for Torsten. Again, applause please!

In the 100cc Masters Class, Tray qualified P17 out of 19 drivers. Keep in mind Tray has only raced once or twice before and is a novice at kart set up and tuning. So this is a huge event for him and he stepped right and drove his heart out. For the Heat Race, Tray blasted his way to 11th which was spectacular!! Everyone was super happy for him. Minimal experience yet a terrific result. The 18-lap main event saw Tray finish in 15th, a great run that gained him a lot of experience that he can take to the next event!

Thank you all for coming and supporting both Kartspeed and the Tri-C karters event at Adams!

Its nice when you receive some money for winning! Croc Promotion offers a contingency program for Croc Promotion Drivers! If you win ANY Sprint Kart Race driving a Kartspeed Croc Promotion Racing Kart, you receive $100.00! So now your plastic first place trophy has some green to go with it!

Go fast!

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