East Coast Superkart Series

ESK Season Results

Well the 2013 ESK season is in therecord books finishing up with Summit Point event. Just a recap of VIR and Summit pointevents……

VIR was going to be the premier event of the season and it did not disappoint! The fullcourse proved to be both challenging and exciting!!! With top speeds over 125mph and goingup through the esses flat out at over 100mph, proved to be some of the highlights….

Getting used to the new track and finding the limitstook some time with the high speedcorners, and the oak tree turn, minus the oak tree, but it was still there in spirit.Signed up for the weekend events were, Jim Brannon, Chuck Bunnell, and Chris Reinhardt.

Saturdays race was a little unusual as the ESK group was started behind both theUnlimited’s and the Stock Honda’s, with a 15 second split between them. It wasChris Reinhardt in the Honda CRF450 powered CR2 MotorSports factory Cobalt chassis withanother trademark holeshot and out front for an early lead that was never contested. JimBrannon was running in second place to near the end, when he retired with an engineissues, which would find Chuck Bunnell finishing second and Jim Brannon third.

Pre-final laps times:

Chris Reinhardt 02:11.489

Jim Brannon 02:14.210

Chuck Bunnell 02:17.937

In Sunday’s race, the Unlimited’s and ESK karts were started together and StockHonda’s went off last, which made the race a little less dramatic than the pre-finalwith all the passing that went on. The start was much like the pre-final with ChrisReinhardt out again for an early lead, Jim Brannon running second, and Chuck Bunnellthird. It was thatway until nearly the end of the race when Jim Brannon caught Chris bysurprise, and then it was on! The two swapped the lead maybe five or six times until thelast lap, when Jim went into turn one just a little too deep, and was not able to returnto the track. So it was Chris Reinhardt first, Jim Brannon second, and Chuck Bunnellthird.

Final Lap times:

Chris Reinhardt 02:11.492

Jim Brannon 02:11.519

Chuck Bunnell 02:19.114

Points After round three:

Chris Reinhardt 84

Jim Brannon 73

Chuck Bunnell 51

Woodbridge Kart Club hosted their 2nd and final round of the ESK series at Summit PointRaceway. It was an unusually warm weekend for a September. Signed up for this ICE eventwere Jim Brannon, Chris Reinhardt and a new comer, Douglas Baron. There were no qualifyingrounds on Friday practice so the grid was set from ESK points. Prefinal was set to go,Chris Reinhardt with the Holeshot, Jim Brannon running second, and Douglas Baron, did notgrid. About 2 laps in and Chris Reinhardt retired with a flat tire, leaving Jim Brannonthe

win.

Pre-final laps times:

Chris Reinhardt 01:21.299

Jim Brannon 01:22.450

Douglas Baron No Time

Final was set with Jim Brannon on the pole Chris Reinhardt pulling the holeshot and theearly lead. That’s the way it stayed till the half way point where coming out of turn12, something broke on the Cobalt kart of Chris Reinhardt, handing the win again to JimBrannon. Later inspection found a failed sprocket carrier. The overall win for the weekendwent to Jim Brannon, but the war was won by Chris Reinhardt in the Honda CRF450 poweredCR2 MotorSports Cobalt factory chassis, winning the 2013 inaugural ESK ICE Championship.

Final Lap times:

Chris Reinhardt 01:19.603

Jim Brannon 01:22.968

Douglas Baron No Time

Final points after Summit point and season final:

Chris Reinhardt 112

Jim Brannon 103

Chuck Bunnell 51

Douglas Baron 0