April 22, 2010 (Orange, Calif.) – The Gatorz Karting Cup, the largest and most prestigious Rotax Max Challenge in the United States, has announced that it will take part in the 2010 Streets of Lancaster Grand Prix, scheduled for October 9-10 in Lancaster, Calif. The series will bring its Minimax, Junior Rotax, Rotax Senior, and Rotax Masters classes to the popular street race, which will now serve as the season finale of the 2010 Gatorz Karting Cup. The SLGP will also be the first time that the Gatorz Karting Cup competes on a temporary circuit.

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Gobirel.com Micromax – Conner Robustelli
Apollo Motorsports Minimax – Blaine Rocha
Reaction Karting Junior Rotax – Louie Pagano
CKI Senior Rotax – Phil Gelinas
Overdrive Motorsports Rotax Masters – Mike Daniel
Team Arizona DD-2 – Troy Castaneda

The race reports from rounds three and four are available on ekartingnews.com:

http://www.ekartingnews.com//news_info.php?n=14555&sid=01852382e490c8e3ecfcce85d3c9d092

The championship standings for the Challenge of the Americas has been posted on our Standings page, and the results from rounds 3 and 4 at Calspeed have been posted on the Results page.

Morning Warmup for Saturday Finals

8:00   Overdrive Karting Rotax Masters
8:06   Team Arizona DD-2
8:12   Reaction Karting Junior Max
8:18   Gobirel.com Minimax
8:24   Apollo Motorsports Micromax

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Our ambulance was called away to transport someone from our paddock to the hospital, and will not return for at least one hour. In addition to that, the standing water, and the decreasing light, we are ending today’s racing program and will begin tomorrow at 8am. We will likely begin with the five main events that we did not run today, but won’t have schedules ready until tomorrow morning.

We did run one main event today, with Justin Coplen winning the CKI Senior Max final. Garrison Masters was second and Bobby Kelley was third.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gatorz Challenge of the Americas set for second showdown of 2010

February 25, 2010 (Orange, Calif.) – Picking up where the series left off a month ago at PKRA in Phoenix, the Gatorz Challenge of the Americas is traveling west to compete at the Calspeed Karting Center in Fontana, Calif. located at the Auto Club Speedway. The series will use the backwards Grande configuration, which provides exciting, competitive racing and provided several last-lap surprises at last year’s CotA weekend. And with the series expecting more entries than in Phoenix, with the addition of several very fast drivers, there will only be more of the same this weekend in Fontana.

Every qualifying session, heat race, and main will be broadcast with live timing and scoring, commentary, and video from the series website at www.gatorzkarting.com.

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USMRC Tech Bulletin 021010
RMC REGULATIONS 2010 BULLETIN 1 (2010.01.27)

Rotax has released an update regarding the minimum length of the Rotax FR and DD2 spark plug wire. The bulletin is available on the USRMC website.

Effective Immediately;

Rule 11.6
- Minimum length of ignition wire (high tension wire) is 210 mm from outlet of cable at ignition coil to outlet of cable at spark plug connector ( = the visible length of wire)
- Ignition coil must be in working condition (to be tested in case of doubt)

Don Moormeister
National Tech Director
United States Rotax Max Challenge
moormeister@aol.com

With rounds one and two of the 2010 Gatorz Challenge of the Americas now behind us, we are looking ahead to our next event on February 26-28 at the Calspeed Karting Center at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana . Based on the great racing that we saw in Phoenix, we will have more great racing and large fields at Calspeed.

The pre-entry cutoff for rounds 3 and 4 is rapidly approaching. Entrants will have until midnight, February 12 (Friday) to e-mail or fax their entry forms in to save $75 on their entry fee.

Our event at Calspeed also marks the beginning of the Gatorz Karting Cup season. The two races will count for Gatorz Karting Cup season points and punches for the nationwide Rotax Max Challenge. For all the drivers who regularly compete in the Los Angeles Kart Club, this will present a great way to get some laps in and get another early season punch as LAKC is taking February off.

Also, remember that on Thursday the series will hold an optional practice from 1pm-5pm which can be purchased from the series entry form. If you plan on camping throughout the weekend at the track, be sure to also purchase the weekend camping pass on the entry form as well.

Also, our Gatorz Trackside page will be live and running again at Calspeed for all of your friends and family at home to be able to keep an eye on the action.

Safe travels and we will see you next weekend in Fontana!