2012 BEGINS IN TUCSON FOR CRG-USA
 
CRG squad ready to attack opening round of Gatorz Challenge of the Americas in Arizona
 
GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO (January 25, 2011) – CRG-USA, formed in mid-2011, is set to begin its first full season of competition as the race team travels to Tucson, Arizona this weekend for the opening weekend of the Gatorz Challenge of the Americas series. The international Rotax Max Challenge program welcomes a diverse driver field in what is a three-weekend, six-round winter season championship series. The Colorado-based operation will field nine drivers for the race team’s opening weekend in 2012.
 
In June 2011, Critical Zone Racing morphed into a new company - CRG-USA - that is now the new United States CRG importer and new national racing team. Led by owner Stacey Cook, the outfit has been busy strengthening the dealer network program throughout the western half of the country while building a full race team for the 2012 season.
 
“The last six months has been a busy time for us and we expect to be even busier in the coming weeks and months,” stated CRG-USA principal Stacey Cook. “Up until the last two weeks in December, it’s been full throttle 100% of the time making sure the CRG brand is represented well across the board and building our national race team for 2012. I’m really happy with the people and dealers we have been able to work with thus far, and look forward to working with more as the season continues. This weekend is big for us as we have a solid lineup of drivers in four classes and looking forward to showing off the new 2012 CRG products on-track.”
 
Leading the effort is rising star, 17-year old Sabré Cook. Entering her sophomore season with the series, competing in four rounds one year ago, Cook will look to improve on her best finish of 16th in the Senior Max division. Competing in the shifterkart categories during the 2011 summer and gaining some open-wheel experience, her racecraft behind the wheel has vastly improved where podium finishes will be the target for the opening weekend.
 
The Junior Max roster is stacked for the 2012 season under the CRG-USA tent. Lead driver will be 2011 Gatorz vice-champion and Team USA member Jake Craig. The SoCal pilot finished on the podium four of six rounds with no victories. Improving on the win column is the goal for 2012, leading toward a possible series championship and direct ticket for a return to the Rotax Grand Finals in November. Fellow Californian Brendan Baker will come back for a second season in the Junior ranks, hoping the move under the CRG-USA tent will help him improve on his best finish of seventh last year. Colorado driver Mianna Wick is entering her second year in the sport, and after a successful year at the club and regional level, will move on to the national scene. Advancing from Mini Max and joining CRG-USA for 2012 is Annie and Toni Breidinger. The two sisters finished off their Cadet career among the top-50 in the United States Rotax Max Challenge National Point Standings and begin their jump to the Junior ranks in Tucson.
 
CRG-USA’s Mini Max roster includes Evan Roshak and Riley Cook. The two Colorado drivers are developing each and every time on-track. While Roshak competed in the Gatorz series last year, Cook will be making his debut as both will look to gain experience against a strong international field. Rounding out the new additions to CRG-USA is Micro Max driver Cody Dempster. The 2011 Gatorz Challenge of the Americas Micro Max champion from Colorado will join the squad for the new season with the goal of defending the title in 2012.
 
Throughout 2012, CRG-USA will be focused on a full assault across the country for the race team while working with new and existing CRG dealers. CRG-USA is scheduled to support the Challenge of the Americas, Superkarts! USA Pro Tour, SKUSA ProKart Challenge, United States Rotax Max Challenge, Pan American Challenge event, and the SKUSA Mountain Region series. Any interested drivers looking to compete with CRG-USA for 2012 are asked to contact Stacey Cook at info@CRG-USA.com or phone 855-TEAMCRG. The CRG-USA is currently in development and will be available at www.crg-usa.com
 
 
About CRG-USA:
Located at the Grand Junction Motors Speedway in Colorado, CRG-USA is the newest importer for the CRG chassis brand and Maxter-Sonik Sport engine program. Operated by Stacey Cook, the company will focus their distribution and marketing on the western and central portion of the United States. In addition, the operation is fielding a national race team program through the 2012 season at all the major karting events on the year. If you want to race with the best product in karting, jump on board with CRG-USA today. Visit www.crg-usa.com or phone 855-TEAMCRG (832-6274).

The Pikes Peak Kart Racing Club will hold its 2011 Race Season Awards Banquet on Saturday, 4 February 2012.
Location: Fargo’s Pizza 2910 East Platte Ave. Colorado Springs, 80909
Please join us at our awards banquet as we formally recognize all the generous sponsors, competitive racers and dedicated volunteers that supported PPKRC throughout the 2011 racing season.
Start: 5:30pm for those who plan to have dinner. Awards presentation begins at 6:30.
No charge for attending. Dinner will be pay as you go by ordering from the Fargo’s menu.
We will be making an announcement about current plans for the 2012 season.
Please RSVP by emailing Dave Edmunds at acemotorsports@yahoo.com


Respectfully
Roger Miller
PPKRC President

Unser Racing is gearing up for their first national outing as a new team. The crew will be heading down to Tucson, AZ for the opening round of the Gatorz Challenge of the Americas series January 26-29. Driver line-up includes juniors Jason Dempster and Grant Copple from Colorado, and Christian Munoz from Colombia. Also competing will be Max Fedler in Mini Max and Everest Fedler in Micro Max. All drivers will be aboard new 2012 SODI chassis, and are running in conjunction with G-Phactory from California. The team offers drivers full technical support including data analysis, driver development, and chassis tuning.

“We are looking forward to our first national outing, and showing people that drivers from Colorado and SODI chassis are competitive at the highest levels,” stated team principle Greg Welch. “Our drivers have a chance to really showcase our product and team, and are looking for podium results across the board.” Junior driver Jason Dempster is also looking forward to race with Unser Racing and G-Phactory. “I am very excited to be to on the Unser Racing Team and SODI Kart. It will be great with all the support I’ll be getting from them and racing on the best karts out there. My goals for 2012 are to win the two Colorado Championships and to do my absolute best in the Gatorz COA series.”

Unser Racing will contest the full Gatorz COA series as well as Skusa Pro Tour. Locally the team will race in as many events as possible, with drivers looking for championships in all classes. For more information on Unser Racing and SODI kart chassis, please contact Greg Welch at gwelch@unserracing.com or visit the team’s website www.unserracing.com

Centennial, CO – (January 18, 2012) Upon the release of our 2012 schedule, we received several calls about national race date conflicts, so to support our local racers in their national racing endeavors, we have made the following changes to our Racing the Rockies, six race-one drop schedule:
Race Schedule
Race Weekend 1 April 28-29
Race Weekend 2 May 19-20
Race Weekend 3 June 23-24
Race Weekend 4 July 7-8
Race Weekend 5 August 25-26
Race Weekend 6 September 8-9
For more information, please visit us at www.thetrack.us.
See you this weekend at the banquet!

This past weekend, on Saturday Jan. 7th, Billet Performance Karting LLC in Parker Colorado hosted an open house. Colorado Karter’s have been to a Billet Performance open house before, but not ever to one quite like this. Providing the warm welcome to the Colorado Karter’s, were the members of Team Urban Racing LLC. Effective January 1st 2012, long-time fixture of Colorado Karting Barry Lewis relinquished control and ownership of Billet Performance Karting to Team Urban Racing.
Team Urban Racing LLC is made up of owner Mike Urban, business manager Stacey Hill, team manager Brian Robson, and team engineer Mike Edwards. Team Urban Racing has been a regular sight at Colorado Karting events for about three years now, racing mostly with The Track at Centennial and the Racing the Rockies series. Racing lifer and karting journey man Brian Robson will manage day to day shop and track activities. Brian comes to the table with plenty of experience and drive to take Billet Performance Karting to the front of Colorado Karting. Robson has many years of experience in racing, including spotting for professional racers such as Robby Gordon, Scott Dixon, and Davey Hamilton in the Indy 500.
While Robson runs things at the track and in the shop, spinning wrenches for the Arrow karts, and helping build the Rotax motors that will come out of the Parker shop will be newly certified Rotax mechanic Mike Edwards. Edwards like Robson is a fixture of Colorado karting, tuning for both his kids all the way back during the early days of the CSC. And in the shop managing business and financial matters will be Team Urban Racing’s driver/race engineer Stacey Hill. Hill has competed with Team Urban at The Track at Centennial events, and has traveled with the team to several races to provide help in the pits, including the past two SKUSA SuperNationals in Las Vegas.
The new Billet Performance Karting will continue to support the loyal drivers that were brought to the team by Barry Lewis, while helping the new talent they hope to attract. And while Robson, and Urban want to see Arrows on top of the podiums this coming season, they both are dedicated to helping in the growth and rebuilding of Colorado karting. “A go kart is a go kart is a go kart, whether its black, blue, purple, or green, we’re here to help all the local racers” said team manager Brian Robson. Owner Mike Urban agreed, “We prefer you race on Arrow, but it doesn’t matter what chassis you’re on, we want to help everyone out.”
Billet Performance Karting will support races at The Track at Centennial, along with the upcoming Gatorz series, and as many Colorado races that meet the schedule.
More information on Billet Performance Karting can be found on their website, http://www.billetperformancekarting.com . Or you can “like” their page on Facebook.

Written by Tony LaPorta