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November Driver of the Month Award Winners
Kid Kart Driver Of The Month - Chloe St. George
Chloe wrapped up IKF R11 with six wins on the season, she won IKF R7 at Grange and even won a race in IKF R4 in Colorado. She definitely deserves driver of the month award and can claim best kid kart driver of the year.
Cadet Driver of the Month for November - Kaleb Allison
2008 Tornado Factory Team Drivers The 2008 Factory Team is in place. Here are the Drivers that have qualified, been nominated and approved as Factory Drivers for 2008. Each has earned the right to run as a Factory Pilot for the Tornado Team. We expected great things of them and they have shown us great results by controlling 5 of the top 6 spots in IKF Region 7 in 2007 competitive Kid Kart Racing, both a National and Grand National race in the St. Louis Kid Kart National and the IKF Sprint Grand National. In qualifying at the KKN the four Tornado drivers in the field took the top four spots with Flinn Lazier winning it the next day. We are proud to be associated with such talented young men and women, as we often say at the end of the race "thank you for making our karts and engines look so fast".
Kaleb Allison
Brothers Logan and Mason Mitchell
Logan finished fourth in the IKF R7 opener and has a full schedule of racing in the Midwest and across the nation. Logan also won a heat at the Daytona WKA Man Cup race. Mason has beaten his older brother once already and is climbing the ladder quickly. Check out their site above and schedule to see them race at a track near you.
Hannah Williams of Texas Age 9 Southwestern Regional Cup Winner 2 Times in 2008
Chloe St. George of Nevada Age 8 IKF R11 Points Leader 6 Wins Pole and Second at Kid Kart Nationals 3rd at IKF Grand Nationals IKF R7, R11 and R4 Winner! LAKC Second In Points
Tanner McKee Age 6 Las Vegas
RJ Lantz of California - Winner of King Taco Open, IKF R7 Buttonwillow, Front Row Qualifier at Kid Kart Nationals in 07 Age 8
Cruz Fiore of Las Vegas Nevada - 2007 California State Champion, Winner Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 6th in overal Points IKF R7 in 2007, IKF R7 Winner Calspeed Opener Age: 8
Braden Johnson of Illinois - IKF R7 Champion 2007 and Central States Super Series Winner Age 9
Michael Schneider of Texas Age 8
Owen Leatherberry, Wisconsin - Third in Kid Kart Nationals Restricted, coming from the back to third. Winner WKA Manufacturers Cup Charlotte Motor Speedway 2008 Age 7
Dalton started winning races before he was actually born. We found out a week after Traci won the feature race in stock lite that she was pregnant with Dalton. Since then he has won at 3 yrs old two championships in ATV drag racing, We moved him to dirt oval track where he won at 4 yrs old 2nd in points missing first by 13 points. He won 7 feature races finishing no worst than 4th (only once out of 22 races). We raced 2007 with 4 dirt feature races, 2 asphalt rd course wins. Finished 8th out of 20 karts at New Castle and a 3rd place at Circleville . He has also been a research and development driver for Tomar Engineering . Where he helped develop a one off clutch that would leave the competition in turn one while he was coming off turn 2 at the starts. He also helped develop a new kart scale table for Longacre Racing Products( he 's also working on a new alignment system for karts).
Last Year's Factory Drivers
2007 (Formerly ComerJet) Tornado Factory Team Drivers The 2007 Factory Team is in place. Here are the Drivers that have qualified, been nominated and approved as Factory Drivers for 2007. Each has earned the right to run as a Factory Pilot for ComerJet's Tornado Team. We expected great things of them and they have shown us great results by controlling 5 of the top 6 spots in IKF Region 7 competitive Kid Kart Racing, both a National and Grand National race in the St. Louis Kid Kart National and the IKF Sprint Grand National. In qualifying at the KKN the four Tornado drivers in the field took the top four spots with Flinn Lazier winning it the next day. We are proud to be associated with such talented young men, as we often say at the end of the race "thank you for making our karts and engines look so fast". Pato O'Ward of Monterrey Mexico - ACK Mexican Championship, Mexican DIPSA MOTORSPORTS Champion Age 8
Royal McKee of Las Vegas Nevada - IKF Sprint Grand National Champion, IKF R7 two wins, 3rd in points with Drops.
Age 9 Royal McKee of Las Vegas Nevada - 2007 IKF Sprint Grand National Champion, IKF R7 two wins, 3rd in IKF R7, Gatorz Challenge of the Americas 2 wins!
Cruz Fiore of Las Vegas Nevada - Winner Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 3rd in overal Points IKF R7 Age 8
RJ Lantz of California - Winner of King Taco Open, IKF R7 Buttonwillow, Front Row Qualifier at Kid Kart Nationals in 07 Age 8
Braden Johnson of Illinois - IKF R7 Champion 2007 and CSSS Points Leader Age 8
"I Want To Go Fast!!" - 3 Year old Ricky Bobby or Braden Johnson?
At the Kid Kart Nationals we heard the story of young three year old Braden Johnson. While waiting for his Mom in the car, Braden started the engine to hear it rev, thinking that it needed to be in neutral to rev better he pull on the gear and it went into drive as he had it floored. He was going fast just like in the movie Ricky Bobby. Braden took his Mom's car for a wild ride, sideswiped a shed, jumped a dirt ramp of his and struck a propane tank. He drove the Trans Am back to the house and parked the wrecked side up against the house so his Mom wouldn't see and turned it off. The 1000 gallon propane tank disconnected and rolled twenty feet causing a four mile area to be evacuated. It wasn't until a couple hours later that Braden admitted to his Grandmother what he had done and his Mother saw the side of the car on the passenger side was destroyed. One spark and Braden would have been part of a huge crater left in the field. Braden has always wanted to drive and go faster. He's coming back to California for a chance to enter the record books as the youngest out of state, and out of area driver to win the much coveted IKF R7 championship. While far from over, he leads the points by a wide margin over six year old Chris Trickle and eight year old Royal McKee. Chris is one of the favorites for next year and will be racing with his younger brother Tommy Trickle in the series. Braden's
Mother drives for a living so maybe it's in his blood. He's one of the
best drivers we have seen and he can give us feedback on how the kart is
handling. He can make things happen even when the set up is not perfect.
He's a thinking driver and he has a chance to wrap up the IKF Region 7
championship and drop the final race if he gets a top 5 finish or
finishes 4 spots behind Chris Trickle or Royal McKee. Anything can
happen as Royal McKee could tell you.
With as many as 14 Tornados scheduled to race in this race, things will be flying and it will get crazy out there. The weather forecasters have put a red box around the high desert and Edwards Air Force base for September 7th and 8th. The shuttle will need to land somewhere else because the desert is going to be a bit wild with all that Tornado racing action. You can't count out Baker, fourth in points that wants a win and considers this tight track his best shot. Iavelli needs a top showing to move up in points and is a wonderful driver, Corbit will certainly be there trying to get his first deserved podium spot. Logan Mitchell will be in from St. Louis to test the waters for a possible run at the points next year and Pato has booked his flights, he'll be riding a special black Tornado. If he has a top engine he could easily win against the West's best as he's the smoothest driver we've seen in years. Rader will be racing the engine that won the Kid Kart Nationals, could he jump up in points with a first or second. So many racers and such a tight track. Fortunately for us Tornado's love tight tracks and testing has gone very very well so far there. As the season comes to a crescendo one thing is for sure fans will be yelling for 5 more laps as the white flag comes out. Maybe the fans will take the starter prisoner and keep it going for twelve laps. Maybe, just maybe, everyone will ask IKF nicely to consider boosting the 5 mile rule up to 8 for next year. ;-) Oh yes, let's not forget about Cruz Fiore. He did his best Ricky Bobby impression last month as his flywheel exploded on the straight at the Xplex. Eddie said, "he was running around yelling, help me Tom Cruise!!!". Eddie was thinking, what's wrong with that boy. The flywheel had exploded and gone through the gas tank, and it was spilling on his hot muffler. ZZ Top is going back together again because the head was not hurt and Cruz is still fourth in overall points with drops.
Nelson Rader of Carlsbad California - Front Row Qualifier at IKF Grand Nationals, finish 5th at Grand Nationals Age 8
Owen Leatherberry, Wisconsin - Third in Kid Kart Nationals Restricted, coming from the back to third. Winner WKA Manufactures Cup Charlotte Age 6
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Kaleb
won the CSSS and showed he can win almost anywhere in the country an in
any series. He's well deserving of the driver of the Month Award for
November.
Dalton
Adkins
He
has two wins and a second, but two gremlins have bitten him, first a
broken clutch spring at the first race then a sprocket in race three.
Chris Trickle got knocked off the track in race one but recovered, he
could have won the opener had it had just one more lap as he was
catching up fast.
He could have won the second race had his crew chief picked up the right
fuel can, because he had the pole. Many things can happen, as Braden's
crew chief knows after dropping out the little black bar in the air
filter at KK Nationals. Michael Thompson will be guarding against every
small detail and hoping no parts break in the final race or two. Almost
everyone is routing for the young Midwestern phenom, all his competitors
for the points lead are his team mates on the ComerJet Factory Team.
While they want his spot they could not pick a nicer, more worthy person
to win the championship. The main question is, will he go for the win or
play it safe. 