Vintage PowerSport

Mickey Rupp attended the June 2010 Vintage Karting Reunion at New Castle Motorsports Park. Mickey is a legend in kart racing, he was the founder of Rupp Industries and a top national level kart driver. Rupp Industries, which existed until the late ’70’s, is well known for their innovative highly competitive racing karts, snowmobiles, mini-bikes, and motorcycles. Mickey went on to race in the USAC Championship Car series in 1964 and 1965, with many top level finishes, including 6th place at the Indy 500. Today Mickey owns Rupp Marine, a manufacturer of serious sport fishing hardware. In this video, Mickey can be seen driving a restored Rupp Chaparral with two highly modified West Bend 820 engines. Jeff Brown, the event organizer and former Grand National karting champion, provided Mickey several questions from the crowd in attendance. (more…)

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This film was originally released as “One by One” in 1975, narrated by Stacy Keach, it is a documentary about Grand Prix (Formula One) racing with a focus on the danger and deadliness of the sport. In 1978 the film was retitled and released as “The Quick and the Dead”, and later released again with the title “Champions Forever: The Formula One Drivers”. (note: video below is in 10 parts that will all play through continuously)

The 2nd Vintage Karting Association Event of 2010, was held March 25th –27th in Barnesville GA, at the historic Black Hills Circuit (Lamar Country Speedway). Race director Bob Barthelemy provided the following event summary:

In order to tell the whole story, I must start with the dedicated group of GSKA members that diligently labored at our workday on March 20th, Wednesday March 24th , and at the event Thursday through Saturday. I am very honored to be able to work with such a great team of people, thank you very much! With that said, I also want to thank each and every participant and individual at the event, (93) entries and over (120) karts were at this 4th annual event.
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