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[George Durdin]

With seven of the nine races scheduled in the immediate Denver area, the COLORADO Sprint Championships needs to be renamed: the Denver Sprint Championships…….it’s just a cross town series between, IMI, Bandimere, The Track with another front range venue, Greeley, thrown in to the mix. It seems the expectations are that racers from the Western slope, Southern Colorado and Northen Colorado are expected to travel to the metro Denver area for the CSC with little travel involved for Denver area racers.
The CSC should be brought back to a STATEWIDE series with one race at each of the states four legitimate kart tracks on the western slope in Grand Junction, Erie on the north side of Denver, The Track located in Denver and southern Colorado’s track located in Calhan with a year end Championship event rotated between the four tracks….five races overall. This type of schedule would allow each region the opportunity to develope their own regional club programs. As it is the CSC is not bringing in new racers and with a nine race schedule is virtually killing regional club racing that should help to develope competitors for the CSC Series.
What was a State Champion Series has become a Citywide Championship Series that pales in significance to the Stars of Karting presented by IRL ,the Rotax Challenge presented by ChampCar.or even the Florida Winter Tour.
Reduce the number of races, the number of classes, set qualification requirements for the participants and then bring ALL of the state regional racers in to the Series and you have a Series of significance.