Events

PolePositionProductions.com to Livestream the CKI Florida Winter Cup

January 27, 2010

Beginning this weekend PolePositionTV-LIVE will provide an online video stream production of CKI’s Florida Winter Cup at the Miami-Homestead raceway featuring live timing and scoring of all the intense karting action as well as exclusive interviews with drivers, organizers, and sponsors.

In addition to the live streaming, PolePositionTV has integrated two of the most popular social media sites into the broadcast, Facebook and Twitter, to provide viewers with access to live updates and the ability to make comments and submit questions during the event. Even though Facebook and Twitter have become popularized among all ages in 2010, they’re still very much the domains of a younger demographic and reaching out to younger karters and youth in general is of prime importance to CKI.

The superstars of tomorrow begin in karting. While racing is an individual sport, it is not an individual effort. Serious drivers learn how to build alliances and skillfully promote themselves’ and their partner’s brands. By giving younger drivers exposure to the professionalism of seasoned veterans, they learn how to polish themselves, promote their partners and sponsors as well as hone driving skills at the track.

PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic begins tomorrow!

December 10, 2009

Earlier this evening the crew from CKI finished laying out the kart track at the Orlando convention center. Tomorrow will be hectic for teams in any case and the weather may not help with a 40% chance of showers expected throughout the day. Rain or shine it will be a great event and PolePositionProductions.com looks forward to sharing interviews of the drivers and intense race action from the track. Look for a video clip update tomorrow of the high energy All-Star Karting Classic.

Formula One driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will compete in the Karting Classic alongside Graham Rahal (IRL), Buddy Rice (2004 Indy 500 winner and 2009 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona winner), Jamie McMurray (NASCAR) and Memo Gidley (Grand-Am) have already committed to compete in this year’s race. More than 20 drivers will be announced in the All-Star division. Rice will be racing for Tony Kart; Rahal for Birel; McMurray for CRG; and Gidley for Trackmagic.

The Performance Racing Industry tradeshow is billed as the world’s largest hardcore racing tradeshow with 1,200+ exhibitors and over 3,500 booths as well as seminars on latest engine innovations and race business management. Last year over 40,000 buyers from 61 countries attended the PRI tradeshow.

PolePositionProductions.com to cover the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic

December 5, 2009

PolePositionProductions.com is headed to Orlando, Florida to cover the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic. The Performance Racing Industry tradeshow is billed as the world’s largest hardcore racing tradeshow with 1,200+ exhibitors and over 3,500 booths as well as seminars on latest engine innovations and race business management. Last year over 40,000 buyers from 61 countries attended the PRI tradeshow

Star drivers will return to their karting roots at the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic. From Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Kimi Räikkönen in Formula One to Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in NASCAR, virtually all famous race car drivers have started their careers in karting.

Recently announced Formula One driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will compete in the Karting Classic alongside Graham Rahal (IRL), Buddy Rice (2004 Indy 500 winner and 2009 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona winner), Jamie McMurray (NASCAR) and Memo Gidley (Grand-Am) have already committed to compete in this year’s race. More than 20 drivers will be announced in the All-Star division. Rice will be racing for Tony Kart; Rahal for Birel; McMurray for CRG; and Gidley for Trackmagic.

Championship Karting International offers the highest level of karters, the highest level of competition, with a focus on safety, fairness and sportsmanship. To help them hone their racing skills, CKI provides young drivers the knowledge and counsel of our motorsports and karting professionals.

PolePositionProductions.com is pleased to provide updates from the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic as well as capture more extreme onboard footage and produce more episodes of GetintheSeat.com showing what it takes to compete at the highest levels of karting.

SuperNationals 13 Weekend Wrap-up

December 5, 2009

Once again Tom Kutscher and the SKUSA team delivered all the excitement of a premiere karting event. Many drivers, sponsors and team principals kept commenting to us that the SuperNationals 13 was the best one they had been to so far. In fact many people wondered how it could get any better, with Michael Schumacher, Nelson Piquet Jr., Sebastien Buemi as well as all the top karters from around the world participating this year.

The ChampionKart-Intrepid team felt rewarded for their efforts by sweeping the top three spots in the SuperPro division with Bas Lammers, Jeremy Iglesias, and Norman Nato taking first, second, and third respectively. Pole Position shot the GetintheSeat.com Axle episode in the Intrepid tent featuring Brett Berryhill of Championkart.com speaking about the different kinds of axles they used over the weekend based on track conditions and driver feedback as well as a driver interview of Jeremy Iglesias en francais.

This year’s buzz was the appearance of Michael Schumacher racing in the SuperPro division and the crowds were there eager to see him. The SKUSA team enforced a ten-foot zone around him with a penalty of getting banned from the event for anyone who violated the space. Although he didn’t finish in the top three, Michael Schumacher put in a decent showing and definitely raised the profile of SuperNationals XIII.

Drivers from Indycar, A-1GP, and F1 didn’t have a lot of time to get adjusted to their karts but seemed to have a good time racing in what Dan Wheldon called “the purest form of motorsport.” Be sure to look for P3’s driver interviews with Dan Wheldon, Buddy Rice, Phil Giebler and others coming soon.

In addition to interviews and filming on the track, PolePositionProductions.com is editing spectacular onboard footage from Ryan Kinnear and Jeremy Iglesias for Extremekartingonboard.com. The ContourHD camera captured some intense video with good audio and had no problem with sunflare. We’re looking forward getting even more high quality video with the ContourHD in Florida at the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic.

As far as cameras go, AIM’s Smartycam also offers high quality video, although it’s not 1080p. The SmartyCam does offer some remarkable features for drivers to improve their performance. Anthony Abbasse shared a clip with us that Preston Newberry from Sodi kart used to explain how racers use the feedback from Mychron 4 to hone their edge. Getintheseat.com will feature the Smartycam and the Mychron 4 data acquisition system in the upcoming driver performance episode.

The SKUSA Supernationals was a great event and with Michael Schumacher and other top drivers coming back to race karts, next year should be even better. What’s coming up next? Stay tuned to PolePositionProductions.com for updates from the PRI/CKI All-Star Karting Classic in Florida on December 10th.

PolePositionProductions.com crew prepping for SKUSA SuperNationals XIII

November 9, 2009

Readying the Jib, packing lenses and cameras and checking the batteries are just a few of the items on the checklist for PolePositionProductions.com as we gear up to capture all the high speed action of the SKUSA SuperNationals 13 in Las Vegas!

We’ll be collecting hours of footage and hundreds of photographs chronicling the entire racing weekend and with reliable reports of  high echelon F1 drivers coming to Vegas, this may be the most exciting SuperNationals to date!

In addition to the intense racing footage, we had some GREAT interviews last year with drivers, tuners and crews.  This year PolePositionProductions .com will produce a more structured, behind-the-scenes series of interviews  that will culminate in the launch of  GetintheSeat.com, an online episodic series showing what it takes to compete at the highest levels of kart racing.

PolePositionProductions.com is also going to shoot HD onboard karting video for ExremeKartingOnboard.com. We had some decent onboard from last year, but the VholdR ContourHD camera will definitely raise the bar in video quality. Stay tuned with us each day during the entire SuperNationals 13 weekend for the latest event news, pictures and information on PolePositionProductions.com and the PolePositionTV Facebook fan page!!!

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