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Driver
André S. Eriksen has 9 years of racing experience from Motocross in Europe in various classes. The 2009 season was his first year in any 4-wheel series ever. He made impressive progress over the season and finished his rookie season in the NorCal Rotax Master's Chamionship in 4th position with one win and 4 total podium finishes in 9 races. As a long-term entrepreneur and founder of Asetek Inc., André has held basically all positions in the company over the years and thus grown from a young entrepreneur to a professional Silicon Valley chief executive with substantial international experience.
During the life cycle of a company, different skills are needed from the top management. André has proven his capabilities throughout this constant change, and from being an expert in cooling he has grown to be a team leader in Asetek. André's key skills include strong marketing, strategic business planning, fund raising, strategic R&D, determination, execution, deal closing and overall team motivation and management. With André behind the steering wheel, Asetek has grown from a tiny startup to a global industry leader within OEM liquid cooling supplying major computer manufacturers like HP and Dell.
Coach and engine Builder
 Drivers' coaching, tuning, engine building and race track side support is performed by Kris Shaw, located close to the Jim Russell International Karting Center at Infineon Raceway. Kris has a long Karting career behind him driving at professional level as well as several years experience with the building and tuning engines.
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News
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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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