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Welcome to Viking Racing LLC |
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Viking Racing, LLC was founded in 2008. With the founders' Scandinavian roots and heritage back to the Vikings, the name was given. Viking Racing is a team that operates out of Silicon Valley, CA and is competing in the Red Line Oil Karting Championship in the Rotax DD2 Masters Go-Kart class, as well as the Formula Car Challenge, presented by Goodyear in the Pro Formula Mazda class. Common for both series is that they are spec series which is an exciting and very competitive form of racing where the Karts/Cars 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 typically leading technology companies as well.
- 2009 was our 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.
- In 2010 we expanded 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. 2010 was very successful winning the NorCal Rotax Masters Championship, 2010 Driver Of The Year Award, 3rd place in the United States National Rotax Masters Points Championship and multiple podiums in other classes/series.
- In 2011 we expand to not only race the 2-speed shifter Rotax DD2 125ccm to also race Pro Formula Mazda race cars. The goals for 2011 are to win the NorCal Rotax Masters DD2 Championship, finish in top 5 in the US Grand Nationals and finish the Formula Car Challenge in Top 3 in our rookie season.
- Provided we can get the budget in place, the overall goal for 2012 is to compete in the full Star Mazda Championship, presented by Goodyear.
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The Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear is a regionalized open wheel racing series with an annual national championship. There are multiple regions across the country, and each region has unique features and events.
Once a year the regions meet for the NASA National Championships. The championship features a multi-class format -Formula Mazda (FM), Pro Formula Mazda (PFM), and the FormulaSPEED2.0 (FS2.0). All classes are powered by Mazda, and equipped with Goodyear Racing tires.
Each region is supported by a Region Promoter who is well versed in racing, and who can provide assistance to teams and independant drivers. The Formula Car Challenge is also supported by Goodyear Racing, and Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development.
Karting - Rotax
Organized in 1997 by the ROTAX Kart Center - a division of Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP). ROTAX MAX is the fastest growing kart racing class in the world and is now organized by authorized distributors as a national competition in over 100 countries.
30 Local and Regional Challenges competing through out the U.S. allowing all drivers to qualify to compete from each of the six classes to compete at the U.S. Rotax Grand Nationals. Where four of the classes are invited to compete at the World Grand Finals. The four classes are: 1) Junior 2) Senior 3) DD2-Senior 4) DD2-Masters all running at different weight and age limits.
The top drivers of each National ROTAX MAX Challenge will be invited by the ROTAX Kart Center and its sponsors to the annual 'ROTAX MAX WORLD FINALS' typically in November each year. |
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News
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Race Report for Viking Racing, Formula Car Challenge - Race 7/8. August 27/28th, 2011 (Indy GP Weekend) |
August 27/28th was the weekend of the annual Indy Car Grand Prix at Infineon Raceway. As the Formula Car Challenge was a featured event both days, it also meant it was Race 7/8 for me in the Formula Car Championship. Besides us and the Indy Cars, there was also historic cars, the Star Mazda Pro Championship as well as touring cars so the paddock was full and track time limited.
As such we only had one practice session before qualifying, no warm up but just the two races. At the last race here, we were running the Indy Car configuration so I knew the track but since it was 2 months back I would have preferred some more test time to get back in to the grove.
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Race Report for Viking Racing, Redline Oil Karting Championship. August 14th, 2011 |
Sunday August 14th was the day of Round 5 of the Redline Oil Karting Championship. I had not been to the track after the disappointing Us Grand National experience but as I know all the different track combinations at Infineon Raceway I was comfortable I would do reasonably well without taking anything for granted.
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Race Report for Viking Racing, US Rotax Grand Nationals July 18-23th, 2011 |
A year ago we decided to switch from the Rotax Masters class to the DD2 Masters class and see if we could qualify for the Rotax World Championships in Abu Dhabi later this year (The regular Rotax Masters do not have a class at the World finals). As such I sold all my karts, engines etc. and bought the DD2 shifter kart/engines instead. Now one year later it was time for the 2011 US Grand Nationals at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah and we were excited to see if a full year of preparation would pay off.
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