What a great concept: Hold a giant kart race in a hotel parking lot in Las Vegas. Have quite literally the best of the best racers in the world come for the weekend and actually race. Not an exhibition, a race! Pit the best car racers against the best kart racers from around the world and let them duke it out.
Oh yes – don’t market it. Let the automotive media find out about it from an inside source during the second day of the event. That way you’ll be sure that hundreds of thousands of spectators don’t fly in from around the world to see a 7 time World Champion race. Oh well, the kart racing fraternity has never really been known for making smart business decisions.
Despite that, fans and local media got a great show this past weekend thanks to a truly world class depth of talent. Where else can you see up and coming kids, international racers and the best race for nothing more than a trophy and then go shake hands with the spectators?
In the SuperPro class, Bas Lammers from the Netherlands took the win while Michael Schumacher ended up in the 7th spot out of 23 that finished out of 43 starters. Piquet ended up in 10th, while Canadian Mike Vincec was one of the 20 DNF’s.
Once again, a big thanks to Tom Donoghue for the huge collection of photos he has allowed us to share from the event. We have another giant gallery after the break with lots of up close shots of Mike.
For complete results from the weekend visit SKUSA
