EKN’s Paddock Insider is part of our Trackside coverage, bringing you notes, updates and breaking news as it happens. The article will feature notes from trackside at the 2025 Challenge of the Americas at the Burt Brothers Motorpark in Grantsville, Utah. This is insider info will not be seen anywhere else. Be sure to follow the EKN Social Media channels – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for more coverage throughout the weekend.

Challenge of the Americas Finale Gets Elevated

For the first time in the 18-year history of Challenge of the Americas, the championship visits the Burt Brothers Motorpark in Grantsville, Utah. Sitting at roughly 4,400 feet above sea level and 30-mile drive from Salt Lake City, the facility has hosted many major programs since opening in 2006. It marks the first time the series has hosted a fourth event with Round Seven and Eight to be contested on the weekend. The facility houses garages alongside the main road course track, which is hosting the Utah Sportbike Association. The Star-Trek layout features a very fast first half of the 1-mile course with a more technical section in the second half of the lap, featuring 19 turns and a very long front straight. Drafting will be key in all categories, including the Briggs 206 Shootout running this weekend.

Scuderia Littel Set to Defend Home Turf

Scuderia Littel is welcoming the Challenge to its home track this weekend (Photo: EKN)

GFC Karting dealer Scuderia Littel is welcoming the Challenge to their home track at Burt Brothers Motorpark. The operation that opened in 2019 had their headquarters in the shop area of the facility, at the western end of the paddock area. They moved adjacent to the kart track in 2022, setting up their service center, race shop and lounge in the nearby garage area that shares space with the main track. Ayrton Littel, team principle of Scuderia Littel, is welcoming the GFC race team and Formula Works drivers into their race shop area for the weekend, providing a home for the over 25 GFC karts competing on the weekend. Littel is behind the wheel himself, pulling triple duty by racing in Shifter Senior, 100cc Senior and the Briggs 206 Shootout. Speaking with Littel, he has enough trackside support to help keep the team drivers going as well as his three karts. For GFC and Formula Works, it’s less work without the tent buildup and teardown.

Challenge Briggs 206 Shootout Takes on Utah

Briggs 206 Shootout will be part of the 2025 Challenge of the Americas finale (Photo: EKN)

This weekend for the Challenge of the Americas finale at Burt Brothers Motorpark, the Briggs 206 Shootout was established. The grassroots category was brought in, welcoming racers to take part in a Challenge weekend that normally do not. They will run two practice sessions on Saturday before Qualifying and running Heat 1. Heat 2 and Heat 3 will run on Sunday to set the grid for the main event at the end of the day. The prize package has expanded to $750 for first, $500 to second with third place taking home $250. Briggs & Stratton is providing $100 in ‘Briggs Bucks’ as well. Today, they allowed for open practice for the category to give those racers who have never been to BBM the opportunity to get accustom to the track. The category has 17 entries and possibly more to sign up prior to the action starting on Saturday morning, with drivers coming from Minnesota, Wyoming, Idaho, California, and Washington.

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