[Chris Wheeler]

Dan, glad you are interested.  The schedule calls for Friday Practice running into the night and a full day of racing Saturday starting off about 9am. As long as you have someone willing to drive the tow vehicle you should be able to make it back. Practice on Saturday will be a decent amount of time before qualifying starts. Thanks again for asking and thanks for showing interest.

 

– CW

[Chris Wheeler]

Photos from the most recent test have been uploaded to our FB page. http://www.facebook.com/usopenofdirt stop in and check them out. Entries are starting to file in! Thank you to those who have registered. Make sure you see the latest PR on the front page of EKN. If you are interest in Arrive and Drive programs for this event, you can contact both TopKart USA – Victory Kart and Praga North America!

[Chris Wheeler]

REGISTRATION HAS IS OPEN!

Registration for the Bell Helmets U.S. Open of Dirt is now open! Please read in full before you decide to wait it out! I do not encourage you sign up on race day! Tires will be announced this week and the spec tires will be required to be purchased on site!

http://usopenofdirt.com/Content/Assets/Files/USOD.2014EntryForm.v2.pdf

[Chris Wheeler]

Hello again!

Wanted to stop in and thank everyone who has reached out to our staff with questions and support for our event! As seen on the EKN front page, we have announced our first round of sponsors. Victory Kart, based in Indianapolis, IN will be sponsoring the Champions Bonus. This will be a $1,000.00 prized added onto the Tag Sr class.  This bonus will be available to the highest finishing driver representing the top 3 in either the WKA Man Cup, USPKS, or SKUSA points.  From this point forward Bell Helmets will be used with all media and be on all official U.S. Open of Dirt logo’s as they will be one of two presenting sponsors. If you get a minute please let them know how much we all thank them for the support.  Next week our registration opens, our spec tire will be announced, as well as more detailed information on the event.  Once again thank you for your support and dont forget to check  in right here to EKN for all updates.

[Chris Wheeler]

I would be telling you all a lie if I said I was shocked to see negative comments about the article…. It has become typical for people in karting who don’t compete almost every week at the national level to complain about almost anything related to karting.  All I hear is “this isn’t good media for karting” and all I see is people talking about it and not being about it. Stop complaining and start acting….

 

Onto the article now… For those of you who don’t agree with the print… Wake up. It is all pretty damn real. The speeds, the parents, and definitely the money.  When new people get into the sport one of the following things happens… 1. They get lied to about how serious it really is, which leads them feeling as if they are ok over there own heads and leaving to return to stick and ball sports that normal families can handle.

2. They get ripped off by someone who fills them with hopes and dreams only be be extremely let down (sound familiar America?) .

3. They fall in love with this great sport and gain great friends and enjoy it until they run out of money or the kids decide to do something else in life

 

Maybe it’s time to start seeing the facts of the sport and build off the good stuff and stop taking part in the bad.

 

As for the writer… He managed to make it as far as a test seat for McLaren F1 only to lose to his then teammate Lewis Hamilton.  Managed a couple wins at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (I think the only person to win on the oval and road course) so I think he knows the realities of the sport and the commitment it takes.

 

 

 

 

[Chris Wheeler]

Greg, I think it would just be cool to have a place that we can all use to help each other out.

 

Rob, I think you are right.  This is why I posted here. Yourself and the staff on the 3 levels below you in the office building always do a great job at hearing what we all want and executing it.

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