Fleming Motorsports

WARNING! Blatant mid season self promotion

Last weekend we ran the 10th annual TCKC Saturday Night Shootout in Richland Wash. 5th one for Me. It's by far the biggest 206 race of the year in the Pacific North West, It was fun with only two 16 hour days

Congrats to Jack for getting the big check in senior in his first year as a senior. This backs up His win there at the first Padhoder Cup of the year.

In J1 Yutaka Did what He dose best. But Rosco was right there with the fastest lap in both heats. But in the main he forgot set his tires for the main and went backwards with at least on at 30 #'s

In J2 Lewis had a great run with Asad Nikadambaev the whole race but got passed on the last lap back and forth, Great race boys

206 Senior started 39
1st Jack Grote
2nd Jake Sessler
3rd Cooper Becklin
5th Trey Arnzen Pole Award Winner 46,821
11th Riley Miller
12th Hunter Hesseltine
14th Giovanii Benson
15th Johna Good
16th Andrew Zimmer

Junior 1
1st Yutaka Sonada Pole Award Winner 46.151
4th Rosco Smidt
6th Cooper Isaacson

Junior 2
2nd Lewis Dilley Pole Award winner 47.18
5th Trevor Clinton
6th Jackson Leach
8th Aiden Goodman
9th Ethan Perry
10th Dillon Dransfeldt
11th Tyler Noble

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The 2025 Go Kart Hall of Fame Inductees

2025 Go Kart Hall of Fame

Jim Reed

Steve O’Hare

Phil Pfau

Fred Fox

Doug Fleming

Ronda Mims-Brown

Bobby Shiffert

Adams Kart Track

George Kugler

Betty Orlandino

Danny Hadapp

George Ito

Bobby Allen

Chuck Hammond

Doug Henline

Jim Donovan

Dave Larson

Earl Larson

Don Freber

Keith Freber

Bryan Araki

Glen Araki

Nob Araki

Terrie Araki

Rob Howden

Dick Raczuk

Adams Kart Track

Jim Walters

Jilene Chivell

Howard Combee

Doug Stokes

Dick Florey

John Ferris

Art Ingles

Lou Borelli

Dick Connors

Hey Doug do you still build and tune 2 strokes? Yes 🚨
Good job Boys

Obviously a warrantee item 😳🧨💣

I’m thinking maybe the plug gap was too big 🤣

Happy Independence Day 🧨🇺🇸

Good job

Sunday’s Sr 206 class sponsored by Chinn Construction:
1) Boden Barnwell
2) Monroe Jordan
3) Jonathon Portz

Could be the biggest 206 race ever

Another great weekend for Jack!!

My favorite race weekend of the year. Monaco, Indy, The 600, Trans Am and NHRA

Colin at Monaco. Can’t believe it’s been 17 years. Time goes by so fast it’s almost unfair

Another old picture. We didn’t get many pictures of on track action back then compared to now. But this one of the few I have and it’s my favorite.

1982 Fountain Valley GP race at Mile Square Park. I entered Superstock Heavy and Light. Won both.
Heavy was pretty easy. But light was a lot harder. It was the first race up to senior for Johnny Meyers and Robbie Flock.
Johnny was the Son of Walt Meyers of Meyers Racing Engines and had been dominate as a junior. Robbie was also a great driver and was driving for Bill Adkins from Adkins Speed Shop. Robbie went on to have a great career in Midgets for years.

I had been watching them race since I started. Best analogy would be like racing Colin and Scott Speed their first day up. So I was definitely up for the challenge.

It was my sixth year racing. By then I was building my own engines. About two years in I realized the people building my engines didn’t want me to win as bad as I did. I couldn’t afford to do anything else. So I had to learn. I had some good teachers. Thanks to Jesse Poe and Gary Hartman.

I was pretty much just a garage guy, or a hobbyists racing against a lot of shop guys. And there was a ton of shops in SoCal at the time. So I plenty of great competition.

I had never been to a national and was doing some club racing and region 7 regional races and special events like this and the Queen Mary. Later I won the New Cuyama street race two years in a row. And once in awhile I was getting to drive some lay down karts for Norm Barto that had some good karts but was afraid of them. We did Long Beach and Phoenix with the Indy cars with his twin. The Long Beach race was a great story also. I share that later.

At that race I was running a LMR 100cc reed valve engine that no one else was running at the time. It had an all aluminum pipe built by Susie Q Beshear’s dad Nelson. Robbie was running a rotary Parrilla. Johnny was running a Yamaha at a lighter weight.

This is a picture of the last lap of light. I had passed Johnny the lap before on the outside of the same turn. Then I caught Robbie. I slid in on entry and got alongside. We rubbed wheels (not body work🙄) on exit pretty good and I beat him to the checker. As I was getting off the scale I see Robbie’s dad coming, quickly. I’m thinking oh s**t. First thing he says is “that was awesome! Good job”
Fun weekend

Find Waldo
1980 at Corona Speedway dirt series. Only time raced Gary Emmick

1980 race at the Queen Mary. I’m in the silver helmet wearing my favorite gloves😎
When men were men no plastic bumpers. If you drove like an idiot it hurt. The racing was way cleaner.

We did that two years in a row. Really fun weekend. We spent the night on the ship

Congrats to Andrew Herberholz on his first J1 win. He made an awesome last lap pass.

It's great having a bunch of talented Junior Drivers. These kids work hard and race hard. We had podium sweeps both days in Junior 1
Good Job Yutaka Sonoda, Rosco Smidt, Charlie O'Neill, Arran Speirs and Madilynn Weber

Hey Doug I’m sending our very best engine. Please take good care of it and make it fast 😳

Win on Sunday, work on Monday 😳🤷🏼‍♂️

Hey Doug will you set my carb.
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Caution ⚠️
blatant self promotion

Back to racing in the PNW after winter hibernation, TCKC club race in Richland Washington had over 120 entries with top finishes in senior, J2 and J1 categories. Big tune up race for Padholder Cup in two weeks

Congrats to Tr3y on another win
Congrats to Rosco Smidt on his win. Nice pass!
And a big shout out to Jack Grote Racing getting a podium in is first senior race
Good Job Guys 💰💰

Predator KId Kart engines for Spokane. Cool little engine. It’s a lot smaller than the 206. A lot better fit for a Kid Kart

Hey Doug do you do the Briggs LO206?

What do you do when Honda is worthless. 79cc Predator. Runs about the same. On the track for less than $300. 😳

So for over 10 years I’ve done a ton of Honda GX390’s for the Trophykarts. I’ve always been the sole supplier for the series. I seal them to keep the Dad’s out of them and they are basically stock except for a big carb, manifold and pipe.
That took them from 13hp to about 25. Always a good setup.
Now they have started a series in Cabo San Lucas with them. But the changed the rules to only one rule. 420cc and that’s it 😎

So……. Game on
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They run a CVT or torque converter. So they only rev to 4000 - 4500. All the modifications I did were to make more power there.
So with a stroked crank that got it to 418cc, a high torque cam, flat top piston and more timing it’s amazing. Picked up 10 horsepower and a huge amount of low rpm torque.
These are incredible engines. And they pull the 550 lb karts around pretty good.

We will see how the no rule thing goes. That how I originally got the exclusive deal with CORR 15 years ago.
They originally said no rules. So I took Zane Smith a couple times all cheated up and on nitro. Then they realized there needed to be some control. So I got the deal and have been doing it ever since.

Another batch fresh from the oven. Anyone looking for a really good powder coating service I have a guy.

*Warning* More blatant self promotion 😎
Last weekend We went to the Showdown in Phoenix. It was last big Briggs 206 race of the year.

Had some pretty good results and had some great racing. Awesome event!

206 Cadet
2nd Yutaka Sonoda

206 Sportsman
2nd Ryan Queen

206 Junior
2nd Gavin Crutcher
4th Jack Grote

206 senior
1st Tr3y Arnzen
7th Riley Miller (from 27th)

206 legends
2nd Ken Queen

Tr3y, Jack, Riley and Yutaka were all running the latest version of the 206 with the new short block. I’ve done 12 of these now and they are a little better. The bore looks amazing after break-in and the piston and ring clearance is proper now. The bottom spins now like butter 😎

I’m still doing an off season special on those. $990 and $30 shipping. All broken-in, Blueprinted and dynoed. Every Engine gets the same effort. No special Engines for shop Drivers . I want everyone to win 🏆

I’m also doing rebuilds for $240 $30 shipping. Includes cleaning, freshen and blueprint head and carb. Also included is Dyno. I can compare yours to what the new ones are doing. 3/10’s of a horsepower is 3/10’s on the track.

Taking care of business at CKNA. 🤣

Got to see this. I did the heads for this when I was working at HPD. The 100th running of the 500

I'm working on a Briggs with the new block and seal location. They also fixed the small screw that holds the tin cover over the plug. It's now 5mm. Much better.
I'm sure the changes are going to make it way faster 😎😳 🥄

Good Job Riley!!!!!!! Great weekend

Saturday's Sr 206:
1) Riley Miller
2) Zak Meyer
3) Hunter Hesseltine