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@Rick Schmidt wrote:
How about Bernie Adamson?
He is a top rung promoter for road racing and very down to earth type individual. He may tell you to piss off, then proceed to give you the shirt off of his back. He was very generous in helping Rich Vito.
I am very interested in getting Superkart time on HPR.
Curt, I’ve seen onboard of Matty at Imi plowing worse than that? 😯
I’ll try anything Rick. Do you have a contact number for him? If so, can you PM it to me? I missed you a couple of weeks back when I tried to give you a call, but I still have your number. If it’s okay with you I’ll try to get in touch with you sometime this week in the evenings. I still work 3rds, saves on child care, so it’s hard for me to get in touch with regular people sometimes. Maybe PM would be best.
Ohh and thanks to you, Curt, and Kirk for reviving this thread. It really needed it and it seems a thread really gets going when you three get involved.
Nice find Curt.
I’m still waiting to hear back from Kevin Williams, the District 10 Trustee for WKA. I’m hoping that they’ll be able to provide the feedback that HPR wants from a major karting sanctioning body. We’ll see.
If anybody else has any other contacts that may prove more beneficial let me know.
Any other input would also be very much appreciated.
@Jay Jacobellis wrote:
Thanks for bringing this topic up, I am writing this with a tear in my eye and a smile on my face, I miss my dad. If you ever met him you would never forget him.
Seconded. This thread rocks, it’s awesome hearing all the other people’s stories and how similar they are. I’m sure that for those of us who’s fathers have passed they are all up there racing for the win still.
My old man gave me the “speed” gene as well.
He raced dirt ovals in methanol powered Briggs karts in the early 80’s. This was in Wichita Kansas both at smaller venues and every once in a while at the bigger tracks. A succesion of accidents left him unable to continue racing so he moved his hobby dollars and time to building hotrods. This was about the time that I was beginning to get more interested in things of that nature so I was able to help out as much as I could building his hotrods. Including a ’56 Chevy, a ’55 Ford pickup with a mouse in it, a restored ’49 1/2 Flathead Ford pickup, a beetle or two, and my ’79 Camaro that got destroyed in a hail storm before I got the chance to drive it even once. :bang
I started out with SCCA solo events and after a while decided I was spending way too much on way too little seat time. I figured karting was the best bang for the buck in wheel to wheel racing and now here I am.
I’ve been meaning to get a hold of my step mother to track down some karting pics of the old man, this thread serves as a reminder to do so.
Good point Greg, but at this point we don’t even have the option of running out there. I understand that in this current economy it’s hard to steal money from our family’s coffers to go racing. But the thing is that it may even work to our advantage. Although CAMA has tons of clubs to draw racers from, it couldn’t hurt them to have another source of income. I’m trying to head up this effort becuase I want us to simply have the opportunity to go racing there.
@Jeff Welch wrote:
Agreed that they probably aren’t going to let anyone hold a race until they’ve had a successful test day or two. But I think the focus should be on getting a race there eventually.
I fully agree that the end goal is getting some races out there.
@Jeff Welch wrote:
The SKUSA regional program coming to CO would be the ideal group to hold a race at HPR. However, if HPR is just looking for input from a national sanctioning body, SKUSA (under the current national leadership) has run very few if any races on road courses. WKA makes little sense as a sanctioning body to hold a race here right now, but they do have a lot of experience running karts on road courses and probably cen best provide the HPR folks with the reassurance they seem to be looking for.
Good points.
Excellent points guys. All things that I will make sure to communicate with Bill when the time comes.
Jeff, I fully understand what you mean about practicing vs racing at a big track. But I think for the powers that be at HPR it’s all the same in their mind. We need to get karts allowed out there first before any regional program is going to want to even attempt to run a race out there, so I think this is definately the way to start. That being said, I think that you are right about WKA being the best option for a national sanctioning body to possibly help. Although I was thinking SKUSA might be able to due to their re-entry into Colorado regional racing. The question remains though, does anybody have any contacts in either organization that may be willing to lend a hand here?
Superkarts, now that would be a hoot!!!! 👿
Keep the ideas coming people!!
I don’t know how you do it Gayle, Rick is right, amazing indeed. Keep your head up and let us know if there’s anything you need.
