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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 #64. 2010 Gatorz Challenge Of the Americas. Race #3/4, February 27/28th - CalSpeed Karting Center, Fontana CA |
February 27th/28th was the date for the 3rd and 4th round of the Gatorz Challenge Of the Americas series. Due to severe weather forecasts for round 1 and 2 in Phoenix, AZ we decided to cancel the first rounds, meaning that round 3 and 4 at CalSpeed Karting Center in Fontana, CA would be our opening races for the 2010 season.
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2010 race plan and sponsor line up |
For 2010 Viking Racing will expand its activities; in addition to the Jim Russell NorCal Rotax Series we plan to participate in the Challenge Of the Americas as well as the Rotax National Championship, New Castle Indiana. The overall goal is to finish the Challenge Of Americas in top 5, the local Rotax Challenge in top 3 and the US Nationals in Top 10.
For 2010 we are proud to announce that have signed with 3 sponsors, where 2 are new. Asetek Inc. has renewed its sponsorship, and in addition we have signed with Corsair Memory as well as Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.
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Race Report #10 for Viking Racing, Kart #64. |
Sunday November 8th was the day for the tenth and last race in the 2009 Jim Russell Northern California Rotax Challenge this time returning to the high speed and challenging Dixon track. As it was run in reverse direction, it was the sixth new track configuration we had to learn this year. We arrived on the track Friday hoping we could get some practice on the track Friday night but literally as we got our canapé up and the kart rolled out of the trailer it started to rain. Since there are no rain races at Dixon, practicing in the rain did not really make sense, so we had to do with Saturday practice like everyone else. Sunday morning at race day the weather was sunny - perfect and warm for the season. |
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