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Drivers and team overview


André S. Eriksen has 9 years of racing experience from Motocross in Europe in various classes. After 15 years away from racing 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 Karting Chamionship in 4th position with one win and 4 total podium finishes in 9 races.

 

In 2010 André won the Redline Oil Rotax Masters Karting Championship with 8 wins in 8 races and probably the biggest margin ever in the story of this Championship. In addition to the Championship he was awarded the 2010 Driver Of The year award. Mid 2010 he started to run in the DD2 125ccm shifter class as well and despite he only made 5 races he managed to finish 3rd in the Redline Oil Rotax DD2 Championship with 3 wins, 1 second and 1 third place.

 

In addition to the Redline Oil Championship André particpated in 4 races in the Challenge Of The Americas scoring two podiums. Only bad luck prevented him from scoring a top 10 finish in the 2010 US Grand National in Newcastle Indiana.

 

In 2011 he became the Vice NorCal Rotax DD2 Masters Champion with 4 wins and 2 seconds in 8 races. He won 2 rounds of the Challenge Of the Americas and took 4th place in the US Rotax Grand Nationals in Salt Lake Utah (where he was violently pushed off track from 2nd place). He ended his rookie season in Pro Formula cars with an overall 5th in the championship despite not attending 5 out of 14 races.

 

 

 

Valdemar Eriksen turned 8 in January 2011 and was then allowed to practice at Infineon Raceway International Karting Center. Valdemar graduated the Jim Russell Cadet Karting Class in 2010 and will be competing in the NorCal Rotax Micro class in 2012.







Mechanic

Brent Katusha is an experienced mechanic with several years of Pro Formula Mazda experience and has been a mechanic for several winning driver in both the Formula Car Challenge as well as the Star Mazda Championship.

 




Driver Coach

Steve Cameron brings more than 30 years of motorsports experience as a driver, team manager and driver coach. As a driver he has two Daytona 24hr class victories to his credit, runner-up in the U.S. Formula Atlantic Championship and a NZ Championship title. He has driven almost every type of road racing car possible, including: GTP, GTO, Atlantic, Indy Lights, Formula 2000, Formula Ford, S2000, Sports Racers, Koni Cup, Historic Can-Am, Historic F1, Vintage Lotus sports cars.

 

Steve has worked as a test and development driver for teams, car manufactures, and  tire companies such as Raven Race Cars, Star Race Cars, Yokohama and Ohlins. Drivers who have been coached by Cameron include Indy 500 winners Buddy Rice and Sam Hornish Jr., Champ Car drivers, Memo Gidley, Michael Valiante and NASCAR driver Michael McDowell.

 


Race Engineer

Rick Cameron is a veteran engineer and crew chief with more than 25 years of experience in many types of racing.

 

He has championship and race wins in Grand-Am, Formula Atlantic, Indy Lights, Can-Am and Formula Mazda. His extensive technical knowledge includes data system analysis, wind tunnel, shock development, seven-post rig, geometry analysis and chassis development.

 

Rick has the rare ability to combine his technical expertise, race strategy and driver training to put together race wins and championships. Whether working with experienced professionals or rookie drivers, Rick is able to help the drivers optimize the race car set up, develop strategies and optimize their performance.

 

 

News

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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