In an effort to provide the karting community with a national series for both Rotax and Stock Honda competitors, MAXSpeed Entertainment, along with several partners within the karting industry, have come together to form the US Open and International Kart Expo. Managed by MAXSpeed Entertainment, who are known for promoting world-class events such as the Rotax Pan American Challenge, Florida Winter Tour, United States Rotax Grand Nationals and the 2013 Rotax MAX Challenge Grand Finals, have put together a three race program that will see stops in the states of Texas, Colorado and Nevada as well as a premiere kart show that will take place the week of the Championship Finale in Las Vegas.
“We had several teams, competitors and business owners within the industry approach us over the past two years to build a race program that covered the calendar from January to November as an international Rotax series within the United States,” explained MAXSpeed Group’s President Richard Boisclair. “Entertaining the idea and adding a few of North America’s popular and competitive shifter kart classes as asked for by our customers, we formed the US Open and will kickoff the series at the Dallas Karting Complex in May.”
“We are very excited to announce the US Open,” explained MAXSpeed Entertainment’s Garett Potter. “Over the past year we have worked with our clients and listened to their ideas and concerns. Our customers love the current winter racing programs offered from COTA on the west, FWT on the east, along with the US Rotax Grand Nationals, but they needed more racing. Not just races but true international quality competition. With this new series we can not only deliver on that but also give racers one program to race with the entire year, and dealers and teams will also have a solid, stable platform to build their programs around. We have taken every minor detail to put together a series that is for the competitors, and with the support from some of North America’s top karting teams, we are now ready to move forward.“
Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada at The LINQ Hotel & Casino, which will host for the Championship Finale, MAXSpeed Entertainment and multiple teams, importers, dealers and supporters joined forces to commit to the three race weekend program. Offering all seven Rotax MAX Challenge classes and five shifter divisions, the US Open will provide all with an abundance of track time, fair technical inspection and a great platform for competition all while drivers can battle wheel-to-wheel for race wins, podium results and impressive awards and prizes. Present in ‘Sin City’ and putting their support behind the US Open include Full Throttle Karting, Rolison Performance Group, J3 Competition, Dallas Karting Complex, Grand Junction Motor Speedway, CRG USA, Miller Motorsports Park, Champion Racing/Intrepid, 2Wild Karting and Phil Giebler Racing. While several other high profile teams have committed to the series, they were unable to attend due to prior obligations in getting ready for the upcoming 2015 season.
Not part of the US Open series but part of the MAXSpeed Entertainment package is the additional announcement of the International Kart Expo (IKE). Set for the week of the Championship Finale, the IKE will take place at the entrance to the race track on the grounds of the newly renovated LINQ Hotel & Casino with free admission for all industry members and spectators. With support from designers, karting companies and manufacturers, the IKE will allow these vendors to showcase the newest karting products from all around the world. With manufacturers on site all week giving dealers, racers and the general public time to check out the new innovations for the 2016 karting season, teams, competitors, families and spectators will need to proceed through the exhibitors to enter the facility.
Registration for the US Open will commence on March 1, 2015 and will take the same approach as other MAXSpeed Entertainment promoted events on http://gorotax.com
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