Posts Tagged ‘indoor go kart racing’
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that K1 Speed Seattle in Redmond, Washington has a brand new track layout! One of the benefits of our track barrier system is that we can easily reconfigure our indoor go kart tracks, which keeps the racing experience at K1 Speed fresh and exciting, and allows our regular customers to face new challenges. The track layouts at our Southern California indoor karting centers were changed in July, and now that January has come around, it was time for our indoor go kart track in Seattle to get a rebirth!
New Track Layout at K1 Speed Seattle
The track layout in Seattle is unlike that of any other K1 Speed indoor karting center; if the
indoor go kart tracks in Southern California are akin to Grand Prix racetracks, then our new track in Seattle is like a Rally special stage! The layout is tight and technical, meaning the driver must be completely focused at all times. While many of our tracks allow the driver to take a breather while cruising down the front or back straight-away (this can be dramatically illustrated on our Super Tracks, which are some of the largest indoor go kart tracks in the country), the Seattle track offers no such luxury! The corner combinations must be taken perfectly in order to set a competitive time, and the racer must have sharp reflexes as the polished surface in Seattle (unlike our asphalt and etched concrete surfaces elsewhere) provides plenty of kart drifting opportunities!
If you are a regular guest at our Seattle indoor kart racing facility and would like to experience it in a whole new light, we invite you to come down and race our high performance electric karts on our new track layout! We think that the new layout is a blast and we’re confident that you’ll agree!
Tags: electric karts, go kart arena, go kart racing, indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor kart racing center, indoor karting, indoor karting center, k1 speed, karting, redmond, seattle, washington
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
K1 Speed Ontario – one of the largest indoor kart tracks in the Inland Empire and all of Southern California – held its first Challenge GP kart league race of 2010 this past weekend, and once again, there was a great turnout of both veteran competitors and new drivers! Pole position at our indoor raceway went to Khalifa Alasiri, who set the fast lap during qualifying with an impressive time of 52.12 seconds around our Super Track. Despite starting the race from P1 on the grid, Khalifa had his work cut out for him, as regular John Tanaka was starting right behind him and was intent on taking the win!
In the A Main race, Khalifa quickly found that winning the race would be no easy feat. With constant pressure being applied from behind, Khalifa found it difficult to run a smooth, clean, consistent race, and John Tanaka was taking advantage of his mistakes. Like a predator with prey in his sights, John was matching Khalifa’s every move and inching away at his lead. After several laps of tapping into the back of Khalifa’s kart, John was finally able to make a pass and make it stick. Though not the cleanest pass we’ve witnessed, sometimes a racer has to be a bit aggressive out on track if they want to take the lead! With just a couple of laps remaining, John quickly put distance between his kart and Khalifa’s, and ended up claiming victory almost 1.5 seconds in front of Alasiri, who claimed 2nd place in the A Main. Garrett Regan finished in 3rd place to claim the final spot on the A Main podium. It was an intense race and we wouldn’t be surprised to see a rematch in the future!
Challenge GP A Main Podium: 1st John Tanaka | 2nd Khalifa Alasiri | 3rd Garrett Regan
The B Main race had its own share of highlights, and we were pleased to see several new faces in the starting lineup. The race was won by Chris Weaver, who was able to run away from the competition and finish in front of 2nd place finisher Matt Shane by nearly 3 seconds. With such a dominant drive, we expect to see Chris compete in our A Main events in the future, and we hope to see him hit the track again in February for Round 2 of our Challenge GP kart league. The final spot on the podium of our B Main race was Holly Stamps, who ended up owning her little piece of racetrack. Several seconds behind Matt Shane and some 4 seconds in front of 4th place, Holly was able to concentrate on the task of driving, enjoy a clean racetrack and set fast and consistent laps!
Challenge GP B Main Podium: 1st Chris Weaver | 2nd Matt Shane | 3rd Holly Stamps
We would like to thank everyone who took part in the 1st round of our 2010 Challenge GP season in Ontario, and we hope to see them again! If you would like to compete head-to-head against some of the best indoor karters not only in California, but in the entire country, please stop by our Inland Empire indoor go kart track on Valentine’s Day, February 14th!
Video: K1 Speed Ontario Challenge GP Race – January 2010
Tags: Challenge GP, electric kart, indoor go kart racing, indoor karting, inland empire, k1 speed, kart league, kart racing, kart racing series, karting, ontario, riverside
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Racers tackle the indoor go kart track at K1 Speed Seattle in our Challenge GP kart league!
We had 10 drivers show up to compete in our first race of the 2010 season at
K1 Speed Seattle, and we were pleased to see that several of the competitors were new to the
Challenge GP series. The veteran racers were eager to welcome the new faces and were being very gracious before the race and after the qualifying sessions had come to a close; several of the new drivers found themselves receiving advice on the optimal lines and braking points. Even the experienced competitors found the race to be a challenge though, as the session was run in the opposite direction. With a reverse track layout, everyone was on a level playing field for the most part, leading to an exciting qualifying session!
Runner-up in last season’s Challenge GP series, Javier Cantu-Lucero qualified on pole position at our indoor raceway after setting the fast lap in the two qualifying sessions. Just behind him was Austin Treloar, followed by Erik Bee. The three started at the front of the grid and were eager to defend their positions as the race got underway. As the green flag was dropped for the main event, everyone was able to get off of the line cleanly. We were pleased to see that nobody fell behind (it could also be said that nobody gained a position though!) and there were no incidents as the karts funneled into Turn 1.
The front of the pack were running consistent lap times and were forming a procession as they lapped the track, but there was plenty of excitement farther back on the grid. On lap 3, Carlos Simental pushed his cold tires a bit too hard and went wide, allowing Theodore Georgas to take advantage and move up one position. Perry Skountrianos made a spectacular move on Michael Raiche on lap 10, throwing the nose of his kart into the inside of Michael’s before he could close the door. The move put Perry in 6th place, but 2 laps later, Michael pressured Perry into making a big mistake around the hairpin turn and Michael was able to regain his original position. Perry’s spin cost him two positions but by the end of the race he had gained back one position which left him where he started in 7th. Though they weren’t fighting for a podium spot, the mid-pack challengers were involved in some of the best racing we’ve seen!
At the front of the pack, Javier was being hounded by Austin Treloar who was putting up a valiant fight! Javier was able to keep his cool though and drove home to victory, despite Austin putting forth his best efforts to knock Javier off of his spot! Austin ended up claiming the second spot on the podium ahead of Erik Bee who finished in 3rd place. It was a great race and a fantastic way to start of the 2010 Challenge GP season in Seattle. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and we were pleased with the turnout.
January 2010 Challenge GP Podium: 1st Javier Cantu-Lucero | 2nd Austin Treloar | 3rd Erik Bee
If you would like to compete in our Challenge GP kart league and race our high performance
electric karts around one of the best indoor go kart tracks in Washington State and the Seattle area, join us on February 9th for Round 2! We hope to see you there!
Tags: Challenge GP, go kart arena, indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor karting, indoor karting center, k1 speed, kart league, kart racing series, redmond, seattle, washington
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
A racer slides our electric kart through a corner in our Challenge GP kart league at K1 Speed Irvine!
The first race of the new 2010
Challenge GP season took place at
K1 Speed Irvine this past weekend, and the new format seemed to be well-received by the participants! Perhaps the biggest change to our kart league, besides the fact that the race was run in the reverse direction on our Super Track, was the new rolling start. In the past, the racers have lined up on our grid for a Formula One style standing start, but we decided to add one more new element to keep the series interesting and challenging for our regular participants. The rolling start allows the pole sitter to set the pace and potentially jump away from the pack at the drop of the green flag; however, it also gives those in the back of the pack an opportunity to try and build momentum to make a carefully timed pass just as the green flag is waved! Needless to say, we expect to see some dramatic starts as the season goes on.
A competitor heads backwards on the starting grid in our reverse layout!
The A Main race saw regular drivers Toby Rodriguez, David Messimer and David Kelmenson (who competes in our Torrance series on a frequent basis) claim the top spots on the podium. As the flag was waved and the race got underway, Toby put in some amazing laps and ran consistently fast. This performance on track allowed him to build a comfortable lead and take home the 1st place finish in our first race of the new year. Though David Messimer and David Kelmenson did everything that they could to challenge for the lead, on this day Toby was simply unbeatable! We expect to see Toby fighting for the top spot all season long, and we hope to see David Kelmenson put in a full season effort at our Irvine indoor karting track, as we think he has a chance for the championship as well.
Challenge GP A Main Podium: 1st Toby Rodriguez | 2nd David Messimer | 3rd David Kelmenson
In the B Main race, recent
Red Bull contest winner Khalifa Alasiri was able to take home the win. No stranger to our A Main races, Khalifa was able to set a good pace during the final, and his experience allowed him to finish ahead of the field. Finishing in 2nd place was Jason Foreman, who was able to defend his position against a hard-charging Brad Drew, who claimed the final spot on the podium. Overall, it was a great B Main race with some superb drives. With his win though, we expect that Khalifa will be eager to fight amongst our A Main competitors next month!
Challenge GP B Main Podium: 1st Khalifa Alasiri | 2nd Jason Foreman | 3rd Brad Drew
We would like to thank everyone for joining us for the first round of our new 2010 Challenge GP go kart league! We truly appreciate the support of our fans, and we look forward to hosting them once again next month for Round 2! If you would like to compete against the best indoor karters in Southern California or the Pacific Northwest, feel free to join our Challenge GP kart racing series! We hold races at several of our indoor go kart tracks throughout Southern California and Seattle, Washington, and it is a great way to experience the thrill of racing in a safe and affordable environment!
Tackling our Super Track in the opposite direction requires participants to learn a whole new layout!
Tags: Challenge GP, go kart league, indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor kart racing, indoor kart racing center, indoor karting, indoor karting center, irvine, k1 speed, kart league, kart series, orange county, southern california
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that we are introducing some new specials for the New Year! At K1 Speed, we are constantly striving to offer our customers an experience that is not only fun and memorable, but a good value as well. For this reason, we have decided to expand our offers in 2010 to give our customers more opportunities to enjoy the thrill of indoor karting whilst saving money!
In addition to our standard specials, including our popular Buy 2 Races Get 1 Free deal which is available Monday through Thursday, we are also now offering 5 RACES for $75 (a savings of $25) or 8 RACES for $100 (a savings of $60) anytime! These offers are good at all six of our indoor go kart tracks throughout Southern California and Seattle, Washington, and are available 7 days a week! Whether you’re a regular or are new to K1 Speed, you can take advantage of these offers and race more often for less money!
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Our Top 50 ProScore holders at K1 Speed Irvine - Jan. 3, 2010
This weekend, we held a party at
K1 Speed Irvine for our Top 50 ProScore holders to thank them for their support and congratulate them on their accomplishment! It was great having some of our most loyal customers from throughout Southern California
and Washington State descend on our Orange County indoor karting center for a night of free food and free racing. Everyone had a great time and we were able to reward trophies to our top racers as well as announce who would take part in the
PKE2010 arena kart race in Las Vegas next month. Everyone at K1 Speed would like to thank those who attended for their continued support; we considered it a night amongst friends and we hope that the attendees enjoyed it as much as we did!
Some of the fastest indoor karters in the country gather at K1 Speed Irvine for our Top 50 VIP party
The Top 50 racers at K1 Speed wait to compete on the Super Track at our Irvine indoor karting center
It is no small feat to get into the Top 50 of our
ProScore system; there are nearly 750,000 people in our database and new racers join our ranks every day. To achieve a ProScore of over 200 points requires skill and dedication, and we wanted to reward those individuals who have put in the time and effort to be among the best indoor racers in the country! With 2010 now on us, we have reset our ProScore system so that everyone is once again on a level playing field, but if you want to make it into the Top 50, we recommend that you start now, as many of our top racers are already on their way to the magical 200 mark and beyond!
Some of our top racers stand atop the podium to celebrate their 2009 ProScore standings
Javier Cantu-Lucero and Randy Olivarez - regular competitors in our K1 Speed Seattle Challenge GP kart league - visit our Top 50 ProScore party in Orange County, California!
Tags: go kart racing, indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor karting, indoor karting center, irvine, k1 speed, kart racing, karting, orange county, proscore, southern california, washington state
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
We are pleased to announce that children will once again be able to learn the fundamentals of kart racing at K1 Speed, as we are reintroducing junior karts to our indoor karting centers in Southern California! If you have a son or daughter who has always wanted to experience the thrill of go kart racing but were unable to meet the height requirement for our adult karts, or you would like to have your son or daughter become involved in an exciting sport, we are pleased to offer the latest generation of junior karts with improved safety and performance. We invite you to bring your child to any of the three K1 Speed locations which have been initially selected for our junior kart program: K1 Speed Carlsbad, K1 Speed Anaheim and K1 Speed Ontario. Our first location to receive junior karts will be K1 Speed Carlsbad in the third week of January 2010, followed by Ontario and Anaheim shortly thereafter, so get your son or daughter ready to go racing!
K1 Speed Junior Karts -- Available at Select Locations in Southern California Beginning Late January 2010!
When K1 Speed was founded in 2003, we offered one-on-one training to children ages 5-10 and provided them with the tools and education that they needed to become involved with the sport of go kart racing. As we expanded out of the San Diego region into Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle and the Inland Empire however, we temporarily halted our junior karts program to focus on new center development. After numerous inquiries and requests from our loyal customer base though, we have decided to once again offer junior karts for children between 48″ (4 ft) and 58″ (4ft 10in) in height! Our junior karts will initially only be available in the Southern California area, but we have hopes of expanding the program to meet the needs of our customers.
K1 Speed Junior Karts are Designed for Children 5-10 Years Old
Many of our clients who originally took part in our junior kart program have since pursued motorsports on a full-time basis, becoming involved in SCCA auto racing and outdoor karting series such as the Rotax MAX Challenge. Not only are our junior karts a great deal of fun for children 5-10 years of age, but they are a great way to introduce your son or daughter to the sport of karting as well. Great racing drivers like Danica Patrick and Formula One legend Michael Schumacher started out in karts before moving on to the top echelons of motorsport, and with our available one-on-one training and extensive selection of youth kart racing gear, your child can do the same! Put your son or daughter in the driver’s seat for an experience that they will never forget – it could just change their life!
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
We would like to thank all of our fans for their tremendous support in 2009! We know that for many people, the last year meant tightening their wallets and cutting down on unnecessary expenses, but we were pleased to see that even though times were tough for some, people still chose K1 Speed for a little bit of fun and excitement! We truly appreciate our customers’ patronage and do everything that we can to ensure that people enjoy their experience at our indoor karting centers.
We have some exciting things planned for the New Year, including a new season of our Challenge GP kart league with reverse track layouts, and we are really looking forward to 2010! Once again, thank you to everyone who has supported K1 Speed since we opened our first location in 2003 and for making 2009 a great year!
Tags: indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor kart racing, indoor karting, indoor karting center, k1 speed
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
K1 Speed is pleased to support the 2009 Red Bull: New Year. No Limits bash!
To support our friend Travis Pastrana and the
Red Bull: New Year. No Limits year-end celebration in Long Beach, we recently held a contest to see who could set the single fastest lap time of the month at our
K1 Speed Irvine and
K1 Speed Torrance indoor karting centers. The contest took place between December 1st and 24th, and individuals had the chance to compete for the fastest lap time on Track 1 at our Irvine location or at our newest indoor go kart track in Los Angeles for a unique and exciting prize. The two individuals who set the fastest times would each receive a pair of free VIP tickets to the Red Bull tent on New Year’s Eve to watch Travis Pastrana’s daring jump over Long Beach harbor onto a floating barge some 200ft away! The turnout and enthusiasm for the event was great and it was fantastic watching people try for that perfect lap.
Now that the contest has ended, we are pleased to announce the winners and their superb lap times! The top time of the month for Track 1 at K1 Speed Irvine was 21.38 seconds, set by Khalifa Alasiri. The time was nearly broken by Toby Rodriguez, who managed to set a lap time of 21.40 seconds, but in the end, Khalifa’s record ended up being fast enough to claim victory! In Torrance, Challenge GP competitor and regular K1 racer David Kelmenson was able to set a lap time of 26.61 seconds, which was fast enough to earn him 2 free VIP tickets to the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits event on December 31st! We would like to congratulate both of our winners for superb performances and thank them for their support, and we hope that they enjoy the festivities on New Year’s Eve!
*In the event a winner is unable to claim the prize, it will be awarded to the runner-up.
Tags: indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor kart racing, indoor kart racing center, indoor karting, indoor karting center, irvine, k1 speed, los angeles, orange county, red bull, red bull new year no limits, torrance, travis pastrana
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
The last round of our 2009 Challenge GP season took place at K1 Speed Torrance this past weekend. Not only did the December 27th race mark the final Challenge GP race of 2009, but it also marked the conclusion of our inaugural Challenge GP season at our newest location, K1 Speed Torrance in South Bay Los Angeles, California! It was a great race and the spectators witnessed some fantastic performances on the track. Now that the season is over though, everyone is anxious for the start of the 2010 season, which will see participants tackle our Torrance indoor go kart track in the opposite direction! The new reverse track layout should make next season interesting and put all of our competitors on a level playing field!
Challenge GP B-Main Winners: 1st Michael Arnold | 2nd Richard Langsdale | 3rd Gary Culbertson
In the B Main race, Michael Arnold led the way and was able to take home the victory. Behind him, Richard Langsdale finished in 2nd place ahead of Gary Culbertson, who took the final podium position for 3rd place. Though Michael may have wished for slightly better results, his strong finish in the B Main solidified his standings in the overall point standing, allowing him to earn a 3rd place finish in the very first K1 Speed Torrance Challenge GP season!
Challenge GP A-Main Winners: 1st David Kelmenson | 2nd Paul Ciralli | 3rd David Messimer
The A Main race was exciting and a great way to close out the 2009 season! Paul Ciralli started the race in 4th place but was able to move up to 2nd after an on-track incident in the first hairpin corner on lap 2. From that moment on, David Kelmenson led Paul and David Messimer around the track in a 1-2-3 procession. Despite Paul’s best efforts, he could not make a clean pass on David and opted instead to defend his position and take home the 2nd place trophy. Everyone is definitely going to be watching David Kelmenson next season though; he has shown time and time again that he is capable of running at the front of the pack, and we expect he’ll be battling for overall honors next year.
2009 K1 Speed Torrance Challenge GP Winners: 1st John Tanaka | 2nd Paul Ciralli | 3rd Michael Arnold
Former Challenge GP champion John Tanaka ended up winning the K1 Speed Torrance Challenge GP kart league championship, ahead of Paul Ciralli and Michael Arnold. Once again, John has proven to be a formidable opponent out on track and with this latest championship, he has shown that he has the skills to win anywhere! We can’t wait for the 2010 season to begin! If you would like to race against some of the very best indoor karters in Southern California, join us at our Torrance indoor kart racing center in January!
Tags: Challenge GP, go kart racing, indoor go kart racing, indoor go kart track, indoor kart racing, indoor karting, indoor karting center, k1 speed, kart league, kart racing series, karting, los angeles, torrance
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