Phil Giebler Racing has entered 15 drivers in SuperNationals XIX, one of the world’s premier karting events and the final round of the Superkarts! USA Fikse Pro Tour being held Thursday through Sunday on a temporary course at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.

PGR’s lineup of drivers includes Carter Williams of Clovis, Calif., who leads the SKUSA Pro Tour championship by 92 points over Miguel Lopez of Texas in S2 Semi-Pro Stock Moto. The 17-year-old Williams is the 2015 champion of SKUSA’s California ProKart Challenge. He had four feature victories in its six events. Williams has two victories, a fifth and an 11^th in the four Pro Tour features this season, his second in S2.

Vatche Tatikian, a 34-year-old resident of Altadena, Calif., was the SKUSA ProKart champion in TaG Master this season. He took his first victory in the class at Willow Springs in Rosamond in March. He’s third in the Pro Tour points.

Ethan Wilson of Campbell, Calif., will also race for PGR in TaG Master. The 45-year-old won the Pro Tour in 2010 and 2014 in the class and also is a two-time ProKart champion. Wilson won TaG Master at the SuperNationals on the track in 2013, but was disqualified on a judgment call of an engine technical infraction. He finished eighth in 2014 and ninth in 2011 in the SuperNationals features.

Joey Wimsett of Beavercreek, Ore., and Jacob Neal of Sacramento are entered in S1 Pro Stock Moto.

The 23-year-old Wimsett won the S1 feature in the SuperNationals in 2013. He was fourth in 2012, fifth in 2011 and seventh in 2014. Wimsett hasn’t raced regularly this season, focusing on working as a coach and mechanic.

Neal, 24, is on the comeback trail after a five-year hiatus from karting. In 2009, he had nine victories in the ProKart Southern California championship, four in S1 and five in S3. In 2008, Neal finished third in S1 in the SuperNationals. Neal ran a limited schedule in 2015, including making his debut with PGR at the ProKart Challenge in the Lancaster Grand Prix. He finished fifth in the feature.

Nicky Hays, Ethan Barrett, Charlie Jafari and Dick Yu are racing in TaG Junior for PGR in the SuperNationals.

Hays, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was the ProKart TaG Junior champion in 2015 with three victories and the ProKart champion in S5 Junior Stock Moto in 2014. He has finishes of second, 12^th, 13^th and 16^th in the four Pro Tour features and is seventh in the points going into the SuperNationals.

Barrett of Laguna Niguel, Calif., finished third in the ProKart TaG Junior points in 2015. He had three top-six finishes in five events.

Jafari of Dana Point finished sixth in the Lancaster Grand Prix in TaG Junior in his first event with Phil Giebler Racing.

Yu, of Hong Kong, will be driving in his first event for PGR.

Matt England of Phoenix, Ariz., Dallas Hollins of Fontana, Calif., Zack Pettincchi of San Ramon, Calif., Gino Alfonso-Macauley of Northridge, Calif., and Jurong Chen of Shanghai, China, will be driving in TaG Senior for PGA at the SuperNationals.

England was sixth and Pettincchi eighth in the Lancaster GP.

Chen will be making his PGR debut in the SuperNationals.

Kris Valdez of La Habra, Calif., will drive for PGR in KZ2 at the SuperNationals.

“We’ve put together an extremely strong team and we expect to have a very successful SuperNationals,” team owner Phil Giebler said. “Carter Williams is in position to win the Pro Tour championship and Vatche Tatikian and Nicky Hays want to close out 2015 with good results in the Super Nationals to solidify their places in the points. We’re excited to have Joey Wimsett and Jacob Neal join our team. They both have excellent records in the past in the SuperNationals.”

The SuperNationals began with practice on Thursday. Heat races are Friday, Last Chance Qualifiers are Saturday and the features at Sunday, starting at 10:30 a.m. PST.

Owned by the 2007 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, Phil Giebler Racing is based in Anaheim, Calif., and competes nationally at the highest level of karting in the United States. Giebler is a resident of Huntington Beach, Calif. The team is the Western distributor of the Daniel Riccairdo Kart and Freeline Kart parts, also uses Fernando Alonso and Tony Karts and is a major dealer of OTK brands FA Kart, Tony Kart, Kosmic and Exprit.

For more information, go to www.philgieblerracing.com.

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