Karting and racing links!

This is a shortcut index to the different areas:

Westwood Karting Shops.

Karting Services.

Personal sites of current and former Westwood racers.

Karting links, non-Westwood and around the world.

Non-Kart Racing, information of interest to racers.

All links have a brief review by me - my opinion only. I don't keep links up that I don't personally like.

Do you want your link on my page? Please read this information bit at the bottom of the page first.

Westwood Karting Members links.

Shops

Westwood Karting's official site.
Basic information to promote the Club.

Italian Motors. Vancouver-based kart shop that has been around the Westwood Club for a long time. They now serve the Seattle, Washington State, area too. The site looks good, loads well and is current. They also support the Club with advertising in the Westwood club newsletter.

Genesis Racing Products. The Rickman's have been around Westwood since the late 80's and karting has taken them over! They are a local full service kart shop. This site changes frequently, so you won't be bored. Online ordering now too. See their ad in the Westwood Karting News.

JT Racing is Justin Anfinson's racing and kart shop website. Justin and Harley have been racing for quite a while. Lots of information here. Thanks for supporting the club's newsletter with your advertising.

Orlado Racing. Vancouver area kart shop, and advertiser in the Westwood Club newsletter. Darco even donated some tire prizes for the Junior season end podium kids in 2004.

Radip Reflex Racing. New kart shop and also an advertiser in the Westwood Karting News. Importers of Birel.

Checkered Flag Racing. Kart shop in Chilliwack, now located right beside CARTBC. On site kart storage available - talk to George and see his ad in the Westwood Karting News!

Services

All Parts Trailer Sales is a new advertiser in our Club's newsletter. Check out the covered trailers, reasonable prices and made by Pace American.

Marv Jones Honda. Marv is a former Westwood president and has been very supportive to karting through the years. Still advertising in the club's newsletter - years after his son is finished with kart racing. Your next tow vehicle could be a Honda! Phone and ask for Marv and let him know you are a karter.

Groundflyer Racing - sorry, no website - is Barry Kremyr's venture. Barry custom builds items for racers. Things like tire racks and tool trays. Great looking aluminium fabricating and fiberglass seat repairs. Nice guy who has been around Westwood karting for a long time. 604.513.1193

TBC indoor racing. We run an ad for them in the Westwood Club newsletter that gives Westwood members a 2 for 1 deal. Nice facility in Richmond. Everyone that I have talked to that has blasted around there has had a great time.

Westwood Member (and former member) Personal Pages

B.C. Karting Malcolm Radelet's site, complete with another forum to check out (much more organized). 7/04

Darryl O'Young raced karts with Westwood for a very long time, starting when he was 8 years old. He is now living a dream, moved to Hong Kong and is a full time professional race car driver. Porsche factory team. Nice! Flash site looks good and runs well (on my ADSL connection). 03/05

Adam Davis has moved up to Formula Renault 2000 this year (2004) and may even be in the support races at the Molson Indy. See, nice guys can win! 7/04

Tyler Dueck is a fast young guy. Pages are a bit out of date and the picture links go nowhere (at least on my browser). 7/04

synergyracing JP Siou and Brian DeVreies' team website, with a new URL. If the old one stopped working, try this. Looks good! 7/04

colbyjenn.com Colby Jenn - one of the fast guys in the Italian Motors camp. Nice site, but could use an update. 7/04

Cyclone Racing. James Cox looks to be having a problem with the site (July 7, 04) as I found it empty!. Hope it gets up again soon. 7/04

Extreme Motorsports Chris Johnson's webpages. Looks nice but way out of date. 7/04

Marybeth Harrison used to race karts with us in the early 1990's, and is now heavily involved with the ProFormance Driving School. Sometimes she still gets to race the ProFormance's 355 hp ASA-type Monte Carlos & Grand Prixs around. 7/04

Arts Cyberspace Former member Arthur Lee's karting home on the web was not to be found July 7, 2004. 7/04

Bulldog Motorsports is former Westwood President Russ Walsh's kart shop. Lots of 4-cycle, and an authorized ROTAX-MAX dealer for sales and service around Vancouver. 7/04

Lorenzo Mandarino Long time Westwood racing junior (but not a junior anymore). Site needs an update. 7/04

Sam & Jo's page. Westwood (& Cultus Lake's) twin racers Samantha and Josephine Grace are fast young women with their own webpages. Looks good!! Want to impress karting sponsors? Look at how they have done their pages. 7/04

Toy Box Scooter Rentals Greg Herbers was racing with us and now his scooter rental company is re-organizing itself. Contact him if you want to buy a scooter or rent his trailer. He hopes to reopen, maybe renting motorcycles. 7/04

Greg Moore Foundation. A site dedicated to Westwood kartings most famous alumni, and the charitable foundation set up in his memory. Lots of pictures of Greg's fast hobbies. Well worth a visit, needs an update for new stuff but, the classic Greg stuff doesn't need any changes. 7/04

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Kart Racing, non-Westwood.

These sites are listed with the local stuff nearest the top, followed by the regional, national and then the international sites. Scroll down for what you want.

True North Motorsport. The shop is in Tsawwassen, at the F440 track (behind the water slides).

BBR Karting is the home of another racer turns kartshop. Blake Choquer's venture. Looks very nice too.

GT Karts Newly established Vancouver area sprint and road-racing kart chassis manufacturer. Gilles Lepage and Arthur Lee.

ASN CANADA FIA. They run the show for racing in Canada.

BCKCA This is the organizing body, made up of all the B.C. Regional ASN Karting Clubs, that runs the ASN sanctioned Regional kart series. Lots of current information on karting within B.C. and nationally too.

CartBC is the non-profit organization that is to oversee the new kart sprint tracksite in Chilliwack. This is a world class track, and the home track for Westwood Karting.

Coastal Kart Racers. They are another Fraser Valley - Vancouver area kart racing club, racing out of the CARTBC track. Lots of 4 cycles, some 2 cycle classes and the Rotax-Max. 3/05

TBC indoor racing is located in Richmond, near the end of number 6 Road. They have a great looking webpage and the track set-ups look like it is a ton of fun. Not as fast as our karts (the indoor track doesn't have any long straights) but the karts will be familiar to us all, real racing chassis. 7/04

F440 Racing Challenge Ltd. This is the place where a lot of the local kart racers rent track time for practices. It's not big enough for competition, but plenty big to learn how to corner fast and stay on a track. Of course you can take friends out too and rent the F440 cars for fun. 7/04

PSRRA Puget Sound Road Race Association. Many ex-Westwood racers are here now to have a unified Roadrace voice. Usually up to date and a good source of Road Race info. 7/04

GoKart2000.com Here we have a really nice and clean looking website where you can place a photo ad of your kart or equipment - for free! Or you can search for that strange part you have always wanted to see who is selling one. Very much worth a look! 03/05

B.C. Karting Malcolm Radelet's site, complete with another forum to check out (much more organized). 03/05

nwkarting.com. North West Karting. Covering all forms of kart racing (even dirt track, which doesn't run here at all) from Northern California to Western Canada (including Oregon and Washington State), and east to Idaho. 7/04

Capital City Kart Club, from the beautiful Vancouver Island. Pictures are posted from the recently held 2004 Port Alberni Grand Prix kart street race. SIX pages of photos! 7/04

SIKA is the home pages of the Southern Interior Karting Association. From the sunny Okanagan of British Columbia. Really nice website. 7/04

Central Interior Karting Series. The page loads - white. Just white. There is code there (you can see it if you right click and pick view source) but nothing displays. My guess is that the frameset is wrong. One of the reasons that I decided to drop frames - they work very well when done right, but mess up a bit and you have trouble. Should be information from the Quesnel and Prince George karting people. 7/04

IKF Is the main governing body in the North West United Satates, and was the organization we ran under until the ASN Canada move some years back. Our Road Racers are still running IKF (and Doug Cole of Westwood is board member). New design of the site makes it easy to navigate and looks great. 7/04

ekartingnews.com is an online news outlet for karting information. My favourite location for breaking karting stories. Has forums for chatting with other racers too. Recommended by me. 7/04

www.edkra.ca Edmonton and District Kart Racing Association. Alberta karting site, lots of information. 7/04

Calgary Kart Racing Club. Kart club with a track happening in side city limits. And with lots of local support! Wow, wish we could have the same support here! 7/04

castlerockkarting.com. This was for a karting track about 2 hours south of Seattle, but now goes to a site that indicates the domain is available. 7/04

NorthWestRacer.com. Based in Washington State, motorsport racing portal. Clean and well presented. The karting page for this site is a link to the site below (NW Karting). 7/04

Manitoba Karting is a nice site but, in my opinion, you can safely skip the WWE-style flash intro. 7/04

Toronto Kart Club. Paul Tracy came from this area. It's a nice clean site with lot's of local (to them) information at the bottom. 7/04

racerchicks.com. Racer Chicks is a look from the female motorsport racer's perspective. A very interesting site with news and magazine-type articles. Free and looks professional.

kartmonster.com is a karting portal, sends you off to your area of interest. 7/04

mullermachine is Pete Muller's machine shop site. Lots of cool information in the "documents" area. Technical stuff to make you go faster. 7/04

Inside karting news is "Canada's source of Karting News". Really good site, with offers of free ads and a free trial issue. 7/04

inside track news is the link to the on-line site for the print publications. This has all of the Canadian (and most international) auto racing information.

ClubPlug is a Canadian site with a specialty for spark plugs. For cars or karts. Lots of links too. Frames, but they work here.

akrweb is an Australian site that looks to have tons of information, much of it technical stuff. Like how to setup your kart for racing, ideal things for the newer kart racer. This may be the new "Must Go To" site. They also have an email newsletter that you can sign up to and a forum. For sure it is worth taking a look at.

VintageKarts celebrates the roots of karting. Pictures and collectors items too. Loads well, despite frames, bonus!

Team Brendel They look to be back online (with a new sponsor) but I didn't have time to really check into it deeply. Some problems with the links. 7/04

Kart Connection Plus. This is still what all the commercial Kart sites should be like. Based in the Eastern U.S. they sell parts and have an online catalogue (and promise to ship to anywhere in the world within 24 hours), but they also have some interesting karting information on site too. Covers quarter midgets and junior dragsters too! 7/04

UK Karting. All the karting information from Britian. Always current information - updated regularly. 7/04

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Non-kart, but still racing, stuff!

META. Motorsport Emergency and Turnworkers Association - The volunteer organization that get to wave the flags at BC's major races. They worked the Vancouver Indy and still work the Mission SCCBC races.

Ennerdale Engineering is a Vancouver Island automotive shop, run by kart racer David O. Saville Peck, of the Chemainus Grand Prix fame. Check out the Super 7 raodster that he can import for you! Impressive range of exotic cars that he sells and/or services. 7/04

Performance Racing News. A Canadian Racing magazine. Racing news and more. 7/04

Canadian Driver They want to be THE source for everything car and motorsport related in Canada. It looks pretty good so far! Reviews of some pretty impressive cars. 7/04

Tinnitus This is something that all racers should be concerned with. It's the constant ringing in your ears that shows up sometimes years after your contact with loud noises. Like Go Kart engines close up! I've got it, do you? 7/04

Federation Internationale de l'Automobile FIA, the International racing organization that oversees Formula One and other international racing events. Some great stuff if you follow F1. 7/04

ASN Canada. ASN-Canada-FIA. The Canadian national wing of the FIA. Karting and auto racing. 7/04

CACC. The Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs regulates amateur motorsports in British Columbia under authority delegated to it by the National Sporting Authority for Canada of the International Automobile Federation. (ASN Canada FIA). Membership is made up of licensed competition drivers, licensed officials, and affiliated clubs. It is an organization dedicated to the promotion and enjoyment of legitimate automotive competition. 7/04

SCCBC. The Sports Car Club of B.C. is the home of on track auto racing locally to Vancouver. Racing out of the Mission Raceway, they used to race at the "Westwood Mountain High Raceway" before we lost that venue. 7/04

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That's all for now, check again in a month (or so) for the newest listings! Thanks for the visit.

About these links.

These links are checked on a "when I get around to it" basis. I use this page to launch off into cyberwhatever often to check stuff. My personal comments about each site are updated as I see fit. If I don't like the looks or content of a site, I delete it. By the nature of the internet, some of the links may move, or change their file names or in some other way get "lost" from where I expect them to be. Whenever I find this is the case, I correct the situation if I can. If you cannot work a link from my page, please contact me and I will check the problem. Having said that, please remember that your browser may tell you that something doesn't exist, just because the systems are overloaded or the routing is wrong or any of thousands of reasons. If a link doesn't work, wait a bit and try again. If it still doesn't work, then let me know. . . Thanks!
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I am always open to suggestions, love to hear from visitors and chearfully ignore flames.

These are links sent to me by members and some are better than others. To try and be clear, as some object to negative comments, in most cases to be posted on my site would be the same as being a 3 or 4 star (out of 4) rating. If I think it is less than that, I will not post it on this page or will make a comment stating that it is of sub-par quality. I will remove a page if it has not been kept up and has suffered for the neglect. I try to cut some slack with Westwood members but don't really want a bunch of low quality links on my pages. Maintain the site or it won't be here! Email me to add your site, but it will be reviewed by me and commented on, just like the rest.

If you have a web page, especially if it is intended to attract sponsorships, it MUST be current. Advertisers (sponsors) want to see what you (and your site) will do for them. If your site is current and shows what you are doing to promote your team, your sponsors and your Club - then they will be impressed. If they see a site that is unchanged (or worse, clearly out of date) they will not be interested in you. "Under Construction" IS BAD!! Websites are either a business-card type of thing, or a documentary of where you are now. If you want an un-changing site (business card) it should be very non-specific. If you say how well you are doing, then don't change it for 2 years, it looks like you haven't done anything for two years. A business card look should be a couple of pictures and a generic description of you and your team that will still look okay in a couple of years. Of course this is for 1 time visitors only as there will be nothing to invite them back (how often do you look at someones business card?). If you are doing a journal-type page, keep it fresh. Tell people how often the content will change and then stick to it. Then it will be of interest and you will get return visitors (and - maybe - happy sponsors).

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Last updated (slightly) 21 April 2007
Links being checked now.