NHKA Racing Series

Sugar Hill Speedway- Weare, NH will host NH’s only and exclusive Kart Racing Expo & Flea Market on Sunday Mar. 28, 2010 from 10am to 4:30pm.

Guest Dealers: CF Motorsports & Apex Karts.

Seminars: Kart Chassis setup and Handling
- Engine Technology & Tips
- Intro to Karting (for rookies)

Flea market space is Limited! To register for seminars or Flea Market, email track at sugarhillspeedway@comcast.net or call Bruce Payea (after 5pm) 603-731-6132.

Admission: A DONATION of $3. pp or $10-family to Childrens Hospital at Dartmouth or “David’s House” at Dartmouth.

Other info:
www.sugarhillspeedway.com or call 603-529-2929

Great news! New Hampshire Motor Speedway has given us a better date for the season’s first road race: Saturday April 17, 2010. No snow or run off. No freezing temperatures. No conflict with Easter or the NJ race. No excuses!

If you have already sent in your pre-entry for the 3rd, you’re all set. If you entered but can’t make the new date just email Lee leec@nhka.net.

We still need a minimum of 100 entries to run the event. The new deadline for pre-entries is March 12, 2010. So if you haven’t entered yet, Download the pre-entry form and mail it in today!

As we had planned for the previously announced date, this will be a doubleheader. More great news is the track has granted us Friday evening entry from 6-9pm. So if you want to come early for safety tech and to be set up for a busy Saturday of racing, you can camp at the track.

Why the sudden change? We have a new person to work with at the track who has said he wants to help us build the club back up. Could this mean additional road racing dates this season? Possibly. A strong turn out on April 17th would go a long way to proving that NHKA makes dollars and sense for the track. If we want the track to care about karting, we need to show how much we care about karting. Get those entries in!

Our day started at Checkered Flag Indoor Karting doing what we do best. It was rare opportunity for sprinters to go head-to-head against enduro drivers. Oh it got rough out there at times — Tom Prioli was a busy guy — but it was all in good fun. We ran three heats to determine the line up for the 100-lap final. In the end it was Taylor O’shaunessey taking the win, and the day’s fastest lap as the only driver to break into the 9-second range. Keith Buffo followed up in 2nd, and Tyler Guilbeault took 3rd. There were also a number of junior racers on hand, with James Sorrentino coming out on top, chased by Adam Trumbley and Mike Holman.

Next up was the banquet at Michael’s Function Halls. NHKA put out a fine spread for all the racing families. Once Lee Camarra completed his third pass of the buffet, the next order of business was an open discussion of the up coming season and beyond. There were many good ideas put forth worthy of further exploration.

The April race will be a one-day doubleheader. And due to the increase in track rental costs, it was decided that we need a minimum of 100 pre-entries by February 23, 2010 to hold the race.

There was a strong positive response to having the October race be a “Kart Fest” with long-format races for all classes and more opportunities for juniors to go racing.

Also announced was the retirement of David Whitesell from his official NHKA duties. He received a well-deserved round of applause for his years of service to the Northeast karting community.

Then it was time to honor the 2009 champions and class sponsors. To check out their photos click here. With club business out of the way, we wrapped up the festivities with the annual raffle, in which “Fast” Freddie Fawcett and Chris Hines wore ruts into the carpeting with repeated trips to collect prizes.

NHKA would like to thank the folks who went out of their way to make the day and the entire season a lot of fun for everyone:

All our generous class sponsors.

Barbara Whitesell, Diana and Emily Trumbley for their work in registration.

Jim Sorrentino and Eric Stockford for keeping us safe with pre-race tech

Paul and Nancy Bowin for everything they do from track set up to scoring and more.

George Smith and Eric Whitesell for keeping us in line on the grid.

Doreen and Ron Simpson for photography, pre-registration and this website.

Keith “Oh Copyboy!” Buffo for his help with promotions.

Bill Price for manning the scales.

Bruce Gray for serving as our post-race tech official.

Checkered Flag Indoor Karting and Tom Prioli for the fun race.

And our raffle sponsors: CFMotorsports, DRT Racing, AllRacer, Bonded Transmission, and Sue Gray for the lovely handmade afghan.

And everyone else who waved the checkers, pushed a kart stand back to the scales or found some way to pitch in – thank you!