The decision to cancel the Thunder at Pikes Peak event was based primarily on insurance. My intention was to sanction the event thru WKA for two reasons – first for a Rule Book and second for the insurance coverage. I submitted the packet to WKA for a sanction to host a “sprint race”. However, they felt that the speeds would be too high and therefore would only licence the event as a “road racing” facility. With that sanction WKA insisted on limiting who could and could not race. While other insurace was available for me it was cost prohibitive.
Unfortunately track scheduleing for 2005 made it impossible for me to get some karters together to re-configure a temporary circuit for the front and back straights. The other issue was that a major tire sponsor was being courted for the event. They however only wanted to provide left over 2005 tires and did not want to use the event to test or introduce their 2006 line of product.
I have not ruled out the possibility of doing something in 2006.
Phil Layton