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ROK Cup USA and Superkarts! USA will open up the season with two back-to-back events at the Orlando Kart Center in January and February
ROK Cup USA and Superkarts! USA entered a working relationship at the beginning of the 2024 season. The two karting organizations scheduled and hosted back-to-back events in January and February in Homestead and followed up with back-to-back weekends in Orlando for March. The association will continue this synergy for the 2025 season with the first three months of the year featuring back-to-back events.
The first month of 2025 will features the openers of both the Superkarts! USA Winter Series and the ROK Cup USA Florida Winter Tour at the Orlando Kart Center in Orlando, Florida. Both programs return to the Orlando, Florida facility in February for their second stops.
“We are excited to continue this partnership with SKUSA heading into the 2025 season,” stated Michael Burrell of ROK Cup USA. “Our 2024 Florida Winter Tour welcomed an increase in entries over the three events from year’s past. The response from the competitors and teams was positive, receiving feedback from them saving over 30% in costs versus the previous year. We felt it was crucial to continue working together with SKUSA moving forward. It is a great example of what can happen when promoters work together for the common good of karting. Thank you to the staff at SKUSA for their continued cooperation.”
The 2025 relationship will expand outside the state of Florida. The series finale for the ROK Cup USA Florida Winter Tour will be held at Speedsportz Racing Park in New Caney, Texas in late March. The following weekend, Superkarts! USA will kick-off the 2025 edition of the SKUSA Pro Tour WinterNationals at the Speedsportz facility for the first time in series history.
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Daniel Vasile scored the Pro Shifter victory at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Photo: CanadianKartingNews.com)
The Superkarts! USA SuperNationals 27 came to a close outside the Las Vegas Motor Speedway following five days of on track activity. For many, it was the culmination of a year’s worth of preparation to not only make the main events on SuperSunday, but to be able to compete and contend for a spot on the podium, and for seven drivers, the chance to enjoy putting their names into the history book. It was perfect conditions on Sunday in Las Vegas, with clear skies and bright sunshine. The sun set prior to the final main event of the day, as the Pro Shifter category put in a thrilling 25-lap Final to close out this year’s SuperNationals.
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Keagan Kaminski won a third straight in KA100 Senior (Photo: Sector 5 Media)
The 2025 ProKart Challenge hosted the second event of the season, making its inaugural visit to the Spring Mountain Karting facility over the April 12-13 weekend. The new karting track in Pahrump, Nevada – roughly one hour from downtown Las Vegas – welcomed over 130 entries to contest the third round of the championship chase. At just over 7/10-mile long, the ‘North Track’ is a replica of the former XPlex course outside Las Vegas, site of the first five SKUSA SuperNationals.
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Matheus Morgatto won the Pro Shifter main event to claim the 2025 championship (Photo: EKN)
The 2025 Superkarts! USA Winter Series concluded on Sunday at the Orlando Kart Center, completing the fourth round of the ‘Spring Training’ championship. The penultimate round was contested on Saturday, with similar weather conditions featuring clear skies and warm temperatures greeted the over 285 entries at the Orlando, Florida facility. Drivers were all in on attacking the 8/10-mile course and the tough competition with the final SKUSA event until the WinterNationals in March. Defending Pro Shifter champion Matheus Morgatto was able to claim a second straight title with victory in Round Four while British driver Joe Turney won his fourth straight main event to earn a second Pro X30 crown at the series.
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Josh Conquer became the first Canadian to win the Pro Shifter division (Photo: EKN)
The 2025 Superkarts! USA Pro Tour SpringNationals ended on Sunday at the Motorsports Country Club of Cincinnati. It was another dry day of racing at the Batavia, Ohio facility, with sunny skies turning into overcast conditions and cooler temperatures all weekend compared to the 2024 version of the event. The MCC crew went all out, bringing in a fly over and live national anthem to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend prior to the eight main events on the day. USA drivers claimed five of the eight wins on the day with Canadian Josh Conquer (Maranello USA) becoming the first from north of the border to claim victory in the Pro Shifter category.
The PSL Karting Pro Shifter held its Prefinal and Final on the day, led by AJ Myers (Magik Kart USA) and Corentin Rousseau (Catalyst / Italkart) to begin the 14-lap Prefinal. Myers led the opening few laps before Rousseau took control, earning the win and the pole position for the Final. Jay Urwin (PSL / Birelart) and Josh Conquer (Maranello USA) fought for third, and earned the row two starting spots as Billy Musgrave (Factory Karts) and Michael Avansino (RWR / CRG) made up row three after finishing fifth and sixth. Rousseau grabbed the holeshot to begin the 25-lap main event as Myers and Conquer fought for the second spot. By lap seven, Conquer had earned the spot and Myers unfortunately began to trickle down the order, missing the setup on the day. Rousseau had a roughly two-second gap by the halfway point, however, Conquer continued chipping at it. By lap 21, he was close enough to get the draft and look for ways by. It was on lap 22 that Conquer made the bold pass attempt into the downhill section, getting the apex first, and powering away with the position. Rousseau had to check up, lost ground and went on the defensive with Urwin right there. The move for Conquer gave him enough real estate to cruise to victory, claiming his first career SKUSA Pro Tour triumph. Rousseau held on for second at the line, however, did not pass tech inspection with the engine. That promoted Urwin to runner-up and Kyle Wick (GFC Karting) – who started seventh – onto the podium in third. Frenchman Adrien Renaudin (Velocity / Sodi Kart) won the battle for what was not fourth over defending champion Matheus Morgatto (PSL / Birelart), Myers, Jacob Gulick (GFC Karting) and Musgrave all within one second at the line.
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