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Position Driver Picture Home City ST Home Series Final Points
1 David Busby Laguna Beach CA Los Angles Kart Club 1245

Started racing Speedway motorcycles at 9 years old. Started Drag 
>racing at 21, racing Top Alcohol Dragsters and Top Fuel Dragsters.  
>Raced Vintage Formula one cars periodically from 2002 to 2005.  
>Started racing Go karts in 2008.  Broke Bonneville salt flats record in
>1932 Ford roadster at 200 mph as a rookie at 2009 World Finals.
I would like to thank Eric, Brandon  and  Terrance at BTK for helping me with the awesome Arrow X1 chassis that made #1 possible. Also want to thank my brother Jim Busby for leaving  me no choice but to go fast and Ron Rossetti for helping me get to the grid on time.
2 Mark Sheffield

Florence

AL

 BTK Rmax Challenge 1140

Mark Sheffield – BTK/Bakers Creek Kart Club Series
 Mark Sheffield is a 46-year old newcomer to the karting scene. Only racing for two seasons, Sheffield won the 2009 Bakers Creek Kart Club Rotax Masters Championship. In 2008, Sheffield won the Bakers Creek Kart Club Rotax Senior Championship. Also in ’08, he won the Two-Race Series Senior Championship between the Bakers Creek Kart Club and the Georgia Sprint Karting Series. From Florence, Alabama, Sheffield lives with his wife and daughter. Sheffield says, “Racing here at Bakers Creek has been a blast. Great people and one of the top kart tracks in the southeast. Couldn't ask for anything more.”

3 Mac McCormack Athens AL BTK Rmax Challenge 1136

Mack McCormack – BTK/Bakers Creek Kart Club Series
 For the past 34 years, Mack McCormack has raced just about every kind of kart series there is whether it be 2-cycle sprint, 4-cycle sprint, road racing and even dirt racing. At 42-years old from Athens, Alabama, McCormack has achieved five of karting’s highest awards, the IKF Duffy—one in 1988, two in 1989 & two in 1990. Just as important, McCormack strapped a WKA National Championship in 1986. He has raced internationally—winning the Kartismo Championship in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1989) and had a top 5 finish in the South Pacific Karting Championship in New Zealand (1990). In 2003, McCormack finished 5th finish in Rotax International at the Rotax Grand Nationals in Denton, Texas. In 2004, McCormack won TAG Masters at the Rock Island Grand Prix. Most recently, McCormack finished 4th at the 2008 Rotax Grand Nationals in Shawano, WI.

4 Steve Dzurilla Cerritos CA Los Angles Kart Club 1101
I was introduced to racing at a young age by my parents who brought me to Nascar, F1, IMSA, Sprint Car and other road racing events around Southern California. I purchased my first kart and the age of 27 and began racing in the Sportsman class with the Los Angeles Kart Club. In 2004 I purchased a Tag motor before there was an official Tag class in the Southern California area and raced in the first ever Tag class at a IKF race at Moran Raceway. One month later Gatorz and Tri-c Karters adopted the Tag class and I raced in these two series throughout the year, including IKF Region 7.In 2006 I raced the entire IKF Region 7 series in the Tag class, where I finished second in points. I finally switched over to a Rotax midway through 2007 and raced with the most competitive Rotax Series in the country, Gatorz Karting Cup, to end the season. In 2009 I raced Rotax Masters with the Los Angeles Kart Club and won the class Championship. I also raced a limited schedule with The Challenge of the Americas and Gatorz Karting Cup, where I finished 3rd in points with Gatorz.
5 Daniel Glas Kalamazoo MI MRP Rmax Challenge 1085

Dan has been kart racing on a local and regional level for the past 12 years. This includes  some SCCA Solo II racing, but was looking for more seat time. He first attended a race school to determine if  karting was something he wanted to jump into. Jump in he did, in his first  season he had over 35 practice days and competed in 10 races. The first 7 years were spent in the kt100 classes, thenshifter karts for 4 years, 2009 was the first year in Rotax.  The plans for 2010 include a return to the very competitve Rotax Masters class.

 
6 David Gildersleeve Syracuse IN MRP Rmax Challenge 1082
63 Years Young   Profession - RETIRED     Gilder-Wilhelm Racing     LSR Rotax/Birel   

1st Kart--Mac R1 with single Mac 6   Current Kart--04 Birel r31  Rotax 
Other karts owned-- Dart A-bone, Dart Grand Prix, Emick, Swiss Hutless, Margay
Series Run--Michiana Kart Club, Great Lakes Sprint Series, WKA MFG. Cup, Midwest Sprint Series, Rotax, tag
Sponsors--Instrumental Machine & Development, Warsaw, IN.
                 Lakeside  Fitness, Syracuse, IN.
                 LSR Motorsports, S. Bend, IN,
                 MRP Motorsports, Three Oaks, MI.
7 John Dalton Miami FL South Florida Rmax Challenge 1031

John Dalton is 37 years old and a native of Miami Florida.  He began his racing career in 1998 on a 1000 Suzuki on the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway where he attained national recognition in the CCS Series.   In 2006 he moved from that venue to racing shifter karts and won numerous local series despite his short tenure in karting, including Homestead and Moroso.  In 2008 he made the transition from shifter karts to the Rotax Master Series where he is the current points leader in the Homestead Karting Winter Series. 

John continues to balance his racing career and his professional career as a Miami-Dade
Deputy Sheriff.  His biggest fan continues to be his 11 year old daughter, Ashley. 

8 Todd Ulmen Miami FL South Florida Rmax Challenge 1029
Age: 43     Homestead Rotax/CRG   Home track Homestead Kart Track
Karting 2 years in January  Race for Playthings Racing 
2009 South Florida Rmax Rotax Masters Champion  support from Homestead Karting
Competed at 2009 USRMC Grand Nationals.
9 Russell Hamel Pelham NH Northeast Rmax Challenge 1023
Home Series  Northeast RMax Challenge     SSC Rotax/CRG   Team SSC East
Married, 46 years young, 2 kids, 7 years in karting and no thoughts of quiting.
2 time Northeast Region Masters Champion
2009  5th place USRMC Grand Nationals
2008  3rd place USRMC National Points
2004  WKA Regional DUnlop Roadracing 125 Spec Champion
Special Thanks to tuner Frank Roberts,  Dave Davies and Gary Carlton for tuning and coaching.
10 Mike Wilhelm No Picture Available New Paris IL MRP Rmax Challenge 998
Gilder-Wilhelm Racing     LSR Rotax/Birel 
Kevin French Conyers GA SouthEast Rotax Super Series 998

When a friend invited my brother and me to check out Rotax karting and the Georgia Sprint Karting Association a little over 2 years ago, we were both sold instantly.  Shortly thereafter, French Bros. Racing was on the track with two CRGs.  I am racing a 2005 CRG Blue Demon with a CMC Rotax motor.  We started this season with our first sponsor, Zamp Helmets and raced the entire SERSS (Southeastern Rotax Super Series) schedule.  I am thankful for all who contributed to my success this season and look forward to the Florida Winter Tour and the 2010 RMax Challenge season.