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Viking Racing was founded in 2008. With the founders' Scandinavian roots and heritage back to the Vikings, the name was given. Viking Racing is a non-profit team that operates out of Silicon Valley, CA and is competing in the Go-Kart Rotax Masters class, which is an exciting and very competitive series where the Karts are almost identical and driver skills prevail. The foundation of the team is to provide a cost-efficient, yet valuable, package for our sponsors, a fun experience for our guests and sustainable good results on the race track.
The team is very much about technology. Racing is about leading edge technology. The team operates out of Silicon Valley - the heart of technology, the drivers are tech-industry executives and the team sponsors are leading technology companies as well.
As a new team we have set the following goals for the coming years:
- 2009 was first season and was a learning year where we participated in the Norcal Rotax Masters class. The goal was to get consistent finishes and a championship finish within top 8. We exceeded this goal by far by finishing 4th overall in the championship, 4 podium finishes in 9 races with one win, one second and two third places.
- For 2010 we will expand the local Norcal Rotax racing to also participate in the Gatorz Challenge Of The Americas and finally participate in the US National Rotax Championship in Newcastle, Indiana. The overall goal is to finish the Gatorz in top 5, the local Rotax Challenge in top 3 and the US nationals in Top 10.
- For 2011 the goal is to win the NorCal Rotax challenge as well as finish the US Nationals in top 5.
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The Northern California Rotax Challenge is a local series of the US Rotax Max Challenge (USA). All races are contested within Northern California (San Francisco Bay Area) at the Infineon Raceway/Jim Russell Karting track in Sonoma, CA and the Kinsmen Kart Club track in Dixon, CA. Whether your goal is to compete at the highest level or enjoy a weekend of racing with friends, the US Rotax Max Challenge is for you. It all starts at the local level and through a feeder system of local, regional, national, and world championships participants get the opportunity to test their skills against the best pilots in the world.
The series is based around the ROTAX kart engine. There are 5 classes, satisfying ages 8 to 80 and 4 of the 5 classes utilize the same FR-125cc engine. The newest class uses the revolutionary 2-Speed DD2 engine and races in a class by itself. All engines racing in the series are sealed, allowing for no modifications. This keeps costs down and ensures a level playing field -- letting driver skill pave the way towards victory.
With demographics ranging three generations the series targets a wide array of people: young, old, families and individuals. The largest class in the series is the Master Class catering to those 32 years and older. The average Master class driver is in his 30's to 40's, middle to upper management, well educated, looking to suffice his need for speed but not wanting to invest a lot of time or money. Its ability to attract individuals from this wide base is the reason US Rotax has catapulted itself to one of the fastest growing and exciting events in motorsports. To learn more about the US program, visit the US Rotax Max Challenge website |
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Race Report for Viking Racing, Kart #464. US Rotax Grand Nationals July, 2010 |
Finally the much anticipated date came up where we were to compete in the US Grand Nationals. The event took place at New Castle Motorsports Park in Indiana and although we are spoiled having Infineon International Karting Center as our home track especially the facilities in New Castle were a nodd up compared to what we are used to.
The track itself is 1 mile with two very long and fast straights where drafting is huge, fast sweeper corners, tight hairpins as well as banked corners. Or in other words it got it all. A little bit narrow and hopeless curbs/rumble strips but all in all a great track. Furthermore there is on-track restaurant, bar, VIP lounges with panorama view over the track excellent service and RV facilities.
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Race Report for Viking Racing, Kart #64. Redline Oil Karting Championship, Infineon International Karting Center. Race #4 June 27th, 2010 |
June 27th was the date for the fourth round of the NorCal Rotax Challenge, the Redline Oil Karting Championship this time at the technical and physically demanding Reverse Sprint layout. Due to business travel in Europe we missed the 3rd round, but it is allowed to skip two races in the Championship we were not too concerned about that. We were anxious to get on the track upon our solid start of the Championship with two consecutive wins. When we showed up at the track we were finally (for California) met with almost perfect weather that just got better an warmer throughout the weekend.
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Race Report for Viking Racing, Kart #64. Redline Oil Karting Championship, Infineon International Karting Center. Race #2 April 11th, 2010 |
April 11th was the date for the second round of the NorCal Rotax Challenge, the Redline Oil Karting Championship this time at the technical and physically demanding Sprint layout that we had not run since July last year. We were anxious to get on the track upon our solid start of the season with one win and two thirds. When we showed up at the track we were met with almost perfect weather but the report for Sunday was heavy rain and wind - something that would show to be right!
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