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 2008 Sprint Events

3rd Annual Night Race, August 16th, 2008

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Pictures from 2008 IKF 4 Cycle Sprint and Road Race Grand Nationals

Pictures from the official photographers are now up and online at the following links.

Take a look and see all who were at the Grands. Support the photographers who shot the events.

2008 IKF  4 Cycle Sprint Grands link  www.camphotos.net

2008 IKF Road Race Grands link  http://www.printroom.com/pro/kartart/

2008 IKF Road Race Grand Nationals Next Week

The 2008 Road Race Grand Nationals will start next Tuesday July 15th at the Portland International Raceway. There will be articles on Ekarting News throughout event and mylaps will loaded up after the event. There is an article now on EKarting news for the event. Stay tuned for more updates.

MAC Track Clean up and Grand National Preparation

We will be at the track starting Thursday June 26 and continuing throughout the weekend into the Grand Nationals.

So come out and and give the club a hand in preparing the MAC Track to to make this Year's IKF 4 Cycle Grand Nationals the best yet. 

Our Track is one of the best in the west. So we need help from all of PKA's members to show how proud we are of our club and our facilities. 

We will be at the track each day at 9:00AM.

See you there.

MAC Track Closed June 21-22 for Road Race at PIR

MAC Track will be closed for practice June21-22 for the Regional/Gold Race to be held at PIR. Also the track will be closed on Monday to take down the Supermoto Portion of the track to get ready for the Grand Nationals.

MAC Track open for Practice May 30, June 1, 2008

MAC Track will be open for practice on Saturday May 31th From 10:00AM to 5-6:00PM. Jon Johnston and Cindy Schorn will be your practice hosts on Saturday and Streve Ward will be the host on Sunday June 1st.

Practice will be open for all Karts, Pocket Bikes and Supemoto bikes. If it is dry enough we will allow the bike to run on the dirt section.

This will be the last chance to run the dirt section before it is flattened for the fair.

MAC Track is open for Practice May 10, 2008

The MAC Track will be open for practice Saturday May 10, 2008 from 9:30 AM to approximately 5:00PM.

Secretary Ann Harlow will be your host. So if you want to get a few laps in come on out Saturday.

PKA Thank you to Racers, Vendors, and Volunteers

PKA would like to extend a personal thank you to all of racers that attended to PKA’s MAC Track IKF region 6 Gold Cup events May 2-4 your cooperation and consideration truly made it one of the largest events Since the MAC Track was built in 1999.

Thanks to the BAM racing Crew along with all of the vendors, workers and volunteers that made it happen.

We hope to see all of our Karting family at the next Gold Cup hosted by the Snake River Karters May 23-25. Snake River Karters always have the welcome mat out for our karting families and this year is no exception. They will be ready for us.

Some helpful items for the trip to Boise.

Hotels: Shilo Inns have discounts for us too; Please use the PDXKART to get the discounted rate.  

CARPOOL, CARPOOL, CARPOOL. Pit space is limited and fuel costs are up so carpool to the track. Please have at least 2 or more karts per trailer and or pit spot to make room for everyone. Please help the club and pack it in tightly so that everyone can get in the pits.  

The track is short, fun, and fast 20 second laps. Don’t let this fool you it is technical and requires skill and finesse to get the quick lap times.  A real thinker’s race track, it will exhaust you more in 15 laps than most any other track in the region.

Weather: Almost always sunny and warm bring a sun hat and sunscreen. Bring lots of water and fluids to keep hydrated.

If you are into skydiving they have a skydiving school and airstrip right next door.

IKF REGION 6 GOLD CUP THIS WEEKEND MAY 2-4

We have been working at the Mac Track the last several days and made some great improvements.  

Now we will be preparing for the IKF Region 6 Gold Cup at the MAC Track.

The Yamhill County Fairgrounds will be Busting at the seams with activities and events this weekend. This is great news for the Fairgrounds and the McMinnville Community as we get to show off our great facility to not only our karting family but other people who may just become some of our future new members. So we ask all of our members to put out the welcome mat talk with the people that will be in the pits and remind them to get their armbands.

There will be a large horse show Friday thru Sunday and then on Saturday night the Rocky Mountain Elk Banquet and our Gold Race. There will be people and cars everywhere.  Unfortunately most all of the camping spots in the back lot have been given priority to the horse show.

Arby’s will be manning the concession stands and will have breakfast ready for you. They will be adding PULLED PORK SANDWICHES to their full menu for this event. Stop by say hello and support them.

 With that in mind, the congestion and confusion and frustrations that could possibly happen. We were able to get permission to use the empty lot across the Lafayette for our parking.

So the plan for the Gold Cup is. All of the parking and camping for the Karters will be in the lot across the street. There is ample room for everyone and the lot is scheduled to be mowed this week.

The pits will be full and we ask that everyone will be able to squeeze in as much as possible so everyone can get a pit spot. We will be using a tractor to park trailers.  We have permission to move some of the fencing to give us more area for pits.

Racers, Friends Help remember KJ

Family, friends, Motorcycle and Karter alike are working together to keep KJ’s memory alive and to build the

KJ McKinster Track Safety Memorial Fund

The fund started by the McKinster family will be used to improve track safety for all tracks.

Friends and fellow karters  have designed 2 different helmet stickers in KJ’s memory and will have them available at local kart and motorcycle shops in the Northwest to help contribute to the KJ McKinster Track Safety fund. All donations and proceeds of the helmet stickers will be contributed to the fund.

Grand Nationals are here in 3 Months!!

The Grand National Committee and the PKA club members are in the works to present the best IKF Road Race and 4 Cycle Sprint Grand Nationals to date.

But the Club needs Your Help.

Volunteers will be needed to help before in preparing, during, and after in cleaning up for both events to make sure everything goes smoothly.

If you or if you know of someone that can help and be a part these great events please contact John Wood for Road Race, Mike Schorn 4 Cycle Sprint Grand Nationals to give a hand to support and showcase your North West Karting community.

Numbers are 360-576-5334 John Wood or 503-324-9072 Mike Schorn 

Oregon State Kart Championship Series

Starts this weekend!

The Series will kick off the season this Sunday, March 30 at PKA's MAC Track with practice Saturday March 29.

There has been a lot of good talk about the series for 2008, PARC and PKA are looking forward to hosting a fun, competition filled series with racers from all over Oregon and Washington.

Championship classes that will be competing are:

Jr. 1 Animal
TAG Cadet
Jr. II W/F
TAG Jr.  
Briggs W/F Medium (365)
Briggs W/F Heavy (390)
TAG Sr.
TAG Masters
Shifter
Kid Karts will still be a part of the program as special participants.

Year end awards will be presented at the 2008 Championship Awards Banquet hosted by PKA and PARC.

As always, if you run a class that is not listed we will find a place for you to run.  Come on out and have some fun with all in this year's championship series.

Oregon State Kart Championship Series

Calendar Change

Due to scheduling conflicts, PKA and PARC have agreed to switch  the location of the first 2 races in the series.

The first race will now be at MAC Track in McMinnville March 29-30.

The second Race will be at PARC, in Canby  April 20.

Please note the changes on your calendar and we'll see you at the races.

Be a part of TEAM PKA. For more information go to the forums page in the General section.

2008 Road Race Regional  Events

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