February 26, 2010

Shockwave Karting forms alliance with Gphactory Kart Co. and Sodi Racing USA

Big changes are happening this year at Shockwave Karting. An alliance with Gphactory Kart Co. and Sodi Racing USA has been finalized after months of preparation. In 2010 Shockwave Karting will be racing the preeminent Sodi chassis brand utilizing select made in USA Shockwave components. “We made this move for our customers. We want to offer them the best total package available and we can achieve this by teaming with the Sodi Racing Team (SRT) and Gphactory,” said Greg Welch, race team principal at Shockwave.

Shockwave will be a dealer for the full line of Sodi Karts, but will build the karts with selected Shockwave Karting components. Shockwave axles and hubs, along with other fine Shockwave Karting components, will come standard on any Sodi Kart sold through Colorado based Shockwave Karting.

Shockwave chose Sodi Karts because of the high quality of the product and attention to detail that goes into manufacturing each kart. Sodi Karts are built in an 80,000 sq ft facility in France, and their manufacturing is second to none. “The Sodi Karts are of the highest quality of anything I have ever seen, which makes them a perfect match for our product line,” stated Doug Welch, owner and founder of Shockwave Karting. The combination of Sodi Karts and Shockwave components will make a winning package that our customers will appreciate.

By teaming with Gphactory and SRT, Shockwave customers will have access to Gphactory’s full trackside support operation at many regional and national events. At races like the SKUSA SuperNationals, Shockwave drivers will have the opportunity to be in the same tent as the factory SRT drivers and team members. “The benefit of running with direct factory support is invaluable. Our drivers and tuners will be able to pull knowledge not only from Shockwave reps, but from Gphactory and SRT factory technicians and drivers” said Greg Welch.

Customer response so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Several drivers have already signed on for new karts and for participation in out of town events. We are currently looking for drivers to join our team and benefit from all that Shockwave and Sodi have to offer. Please contact us for more details at 800-608-3457 or local drivers at 303-781-7829

This is exciting news for the Shockwave team. I'm sure it will be an awesome partnership.

I'm curious if this means that Shockwave will no longer be manufacturing their own line of chassis though. Can you clafify Doug, Greg, or Jeff.

Doug

We will still be doing our own line of cadet karts. Our new 2010 cadet is a rocket ship. This just adds another dimension for us. We have our own full size karts, the full CRG line and now the Sodi karts. We are very excited about the Sodi as we have found their new kart to be very, very good, particularly in Tag/Rotax applications.

There will be another press release coming up on great news concerning the Pan-Am Challenge. This is the year to do Rotax!

Awesome news Doug, thanks for the clarification. If you hadn't noticed yet, I'm a bit slow on the uptake.

You're not slow, Doug... I was wondering the same thing.

Another thing this will allow us to do is put more energy into developing our product line. As you all know we currently have a very extensive range of high quality products, and look for more new stuff to be added throughout the year. We already have lots of new hubs out, and should have more coming, along with billet steering columns and more debuting in 2010.