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2011 West Coast 360 Sprint Car

2011 Wingless Micro Sprint

Photo Courtesy of B's Photos

Kolby 2010 Senior KPV4

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2011 600 Open Micro Sprint

Recent News

April 24, 2013

Kolby Wins $5000 Scholarship from Champion Spark Plugs

After a long hard fought journey to gain votes for the Champion Spark Plugs Video Contest, Kolby is proud to announce he made the top fifteen and has become a member of the Champion Spark Plugs family. It was a fun trip and Kolby met lots of great people and had support from lots of old friends and family. Kolby will take his $5,000 cash prize and put it to good use for the 2013 season.

Kolby Earns Kerman Kart Club Series Championship

October 30, 2012

Kolby finished off the Kerman Kart Club season with a second place finish behind Cambrian Karting driver Dylan Albiani at the last club race of the year. Kolby only needed to start the race to secure the 2012 class championship in Senior Yamaha.

Kolby Finishes 13th at Cotton Classic

October 12, 2012

Kolby ran his third and final race of t he season in the USAC Westcoast 360 Sprint Car Series at the Cotton Classic in Hanford. The motor was rebuilt after that last race due to a cracked head which took the team most of the evening to sort out the gremlins. Kolby missed hot laps due to a misfire. The team though they found the problem but it came back in the heat race.

After making several changes including the ignition, Kolby set out to the semi main to see if it was going to run. At the start of the race, it was apparent that the problem was fixed. Kolby started dead last and began picking off the other drivers one by one. Finishing 5th, it put Kolby into the main event.

Kolby started the main event from the back after a first lap incident that caused the front straight fencing material to get caught up under Kolby' car. During a red flag, the team was able to get the car back on the track. The main event then went from green to checkered with no yellow flags. Kolby worked his way up to the 13th spot by the end of the main after starting 20th.

It was a great night for the team and especially Kolby who was able to gain much needed experience.

Photo Courtesy of Lance Jennings and SCRAfan.com

Kolby Wins his Fourth Duffy and Three More Eagles

June 25, 2012

The 2012 IKF Nationals at the Fresno Fairgrounds have come and gone. Kolby started his Nationals week by helping the Kerman Kart Club set up the track, pits RV spots and whatever else needed to be done.

Kolby competed in all six senior classes even with a 25 pound deficit in four of them. Kolby ended the week with three Pole Qualifying efforts which added three more Screaming Eagles to his collection and won the KPV4 Heavy class adding a Duffy to the three already on his shelf.

The week was full of great competition as always with the senior division. Kolby would like to thanks all his sponsors, PKS Kart Supplies, Grand Products, P1 Engines, Graphix Plus, RLV, KAR Specialist, Bell Helmets, Meclec Metal Finishing, and SPY Optics. A special thanks goes out to Camden Giese and Grand Products for allowing Kolby to use a kart, which was the one that won the Duffy.