Karting news from inside the paddock.
EKN Radio Network follows North American karting with a working-paddock feel: practical, current, and comfortable with the details. Recent episodes move between Tucson race weekends, Challenge of the Americas fallout, Superkarts! USA Pro Tour previews, entry counts, schedules, weather, and class-by-class racing notes.
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EKN Radio Network is a karting show with its feet in the paddock. It is built around previews, debriefs, and rolling news updates from the North American race calendar. The emphasis is practical. Recent episodes spend serious time on the 2026 Superkarts! USA Pro Tour WinterNationals, RMC Americas Trophy in Tucson, Challenge of the Americas at K1 Circuit, and the flow of events through March and April. This is not broad motorsports chatter with karting as a side topic. It is karting first, all the way down to session lengths, entry counts, class limits, pit maps, chassis talk, weather, venue history, and the knock-on effects of travel and scheduling. Rob Howden and David Cole give the network its recurring conversational shape. They trade setup, memory, and trackside context with a rhythm that feels informal but informed. Short jokes land quickly. Then the show gets back to business. A preview might start with flights into Tucson and desert heat, then turn into a sharper look at practice formats and expectations for the Muscleman Honda Circuit. A debrief might begin as a weekend recap, then narrow into the race sequence that put Eversman in position to win by twenty thousandths. That specificity is the point. The show assumes listeners care about how a race actually unfolded, not just who won. It also keeps an eye on the health of the sport, especially series support, regional travel patterns, and whether West Coast racers have viable programs to build around. The tone can be blunt, particularly when participation or event structure is on the table, but it usually stays grounded in the mechanics of running and covering karting. Sponsor blocks are frequent and more polished than the body of the conversation. Around them, the show sounds like karting people sorting the weekend into useful order. EKN Radio Network is strongest for racers, families, team members, officials, and fans who want current paddock intelligence without needing every acronym slowed down.
Made for: Built for karting racers, families, teams, officials, and close followers of North American competition. It best suits listeners who already speak the language of classes, series, chassis, entries, and race weekends.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its event-level granularity: previews and debriefs shaped by trackside context, not distant recap. It connects race logistics, paddock participation, and on-track incidents into a useful picture of where karting is heading.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed race reconstruction turns karting results, incidents and championship movement into a clear account of what happened on track.
EKN Radio Network treats karting as a sport worth reconstructing corner by corner. Rob Howden and David Cole alternate between class-by-class race debriefs and news roundups, tracking qualifying pace, penalties, mechanical failures, championship positions and the moves that…
A last-corner over-under, replayed for the karting brain that needs to know why it worked.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Pro Tour preview where the entry count matters, but the pit map tells the sharper story.
This Week in Karting frames its Pro Tour preview as a story about paddock pressure, not just a big entry list. The hosts point to more than 200 reported entries, Junior and Cadet fields already over half full, and Pro Shifter nearly sold out, then connect those figures to the…
A brisk karting catch-up that connects a rule change with the push for West Coast entries.
Episode 94 offers a clear-eyed karting news roundup, with Rob Howden and David Coles tracking the stories making the rounds since their January show.
A K1 Circuit recap that earns its finish with real race detail.
EKN Debrief Episode 164 closes out the opening Challenge of the Americas rounds at K1 Circuit in Winchester with the kind of paddock detail that gives the race real shape.
A field-by-field Challenge of the Americas preview for K1 Circuit, centered on returning drivers, senior moves, and new names.
The 104th EKN OutLap lands as a timely preview for the Challenge of the Americas opener at K1 Circuit in Winchester, California, on February 20-22.
A grounded Superkarts! USA winter-series finale where standings, recovery, and a broken exhaust all matter.
Speed Sport Racing Park gives this Superkarts! USA Winter Series finale a useful trackside frame, with David Cole reporting from New Caney as rounds three and four close out the four-round title chase.
Joe Tourney's tenth-of-a-second win leads a practical debrief on pace, contact, and race detail.
The EKN Debrief treats Episode 166 as a measured look back at the 2026 Superkarts USA Pro Tour opener at the Winter Nationals. Rob Howden and David Cole track the race at Musselman Honda Circuit in Tucson, Arizona, where Joe Tourney's last-lap over-under on Paulie Massimino…
A grounded Rock Island report on a bumpy new track, great weather, and a win by just over a tenth.
The 2024 Rock Island Grand Prix comes through as a practical race report, centered on an event that had to move to a new racetrack because construction took the old one out of use.
Rob Howden and David Cole recap the 2026 Superkarts USA Pro Tour Winter Nationals opener at Muscleman Honda Circuit in Tucson, Arizona.
Hosts Rob Howden and David Cole provide a detailed race report from the 2024 Rock Island Grand Prix karting event.
This episode of This Week in Karting covers recent karting news and previews the upcoming racing season with hosts Rob Howden and David Cole.
This episode previews the ninth edition of the Cup Karts North America Grand Nationals, discussing its growth, expected attendance, and significance as the largest Briggs & Stratton-only karting event.
This episode previews the 2025 MG Tires 200 endurance race at Newcastle Motorsports Park, discussing its unique team-focused format, pit stop strategies, and expectations compared to last year's event.
This episode interviews Race Liberante about the new FAT Karting League US, a program designed to bring new people into karting by reducing financial barriers and promoting talent development.
This episode previews the 2025 Challenge of the Americas karting event at Sonoma Raceway, discussing teams, drivers, and point standings.
Rob Howden and David Cole report that Superkarts USA's 2027 Winter Series and RMC Winter Trophy return to Orlando Kart Center with more than $340,000 in prizes and a new yellow SK-M4 tire replacing the red SK-M2 in Pro Shifter, Pro X30 and Master Shifter.
This episode of This Week in Karting provides updates on karting news and events, including the Champions of the Future America Series, and discusses upcoming racing activities for April and May 2026.
This episode is a debrief of the 2026 Superkarts USA Pro Tour Winter Nationals at Muscleman Honda Circuit in Tucson, Arizona, featuring hosts Rob Howden and David Cole discussing the action-packed competition.
This episode previews the 2026 Superkarts USA Pro Tour Winter Nationals in Tucson, Arizona, discussing travel plans, weather conditions, and event expectations.
This episode covers the opening rounds of the 2026 RMC Americas Trophy at the Muscleman Honda Circuit in Tucson, Arizona, with trackside reporting and analysis.
This episode previews the 2026 Rotax RMC Americas Trophy kart racing event in Tucson, Arizona, featuring an interview with David Cole about the schedule and coverage plans.
CKNA's 428-entry Spring Nationals and 83-driver Senior Medium class, SKUSA's KA100 Master reversal, and a spec-versus-multi-engine debate drive This Week in Karting episode 95 on March 10, 2026.
Rob Howden and David Coles open episode 94 by catching up on the karting news that has landed on EKN over the last couple of weeks.
Episode 164 wraps the K1 Circuit weekend.
["Rob Howden and David Cole preview EKN Outlap EP104 for the Challenge of the Americas opener at K1 Circuit in Winchester, California, with the first two rounds set for February 20-22 and the series entering its 19th season since 2008.", "The K1 Circuit layout is 1 mile with 14 turns and 33 feet of elevation change, and the 2026 event adds the final chicane after last year's track-limit debate at the front straight.", "Senior 100cc has 23 pre-entries, Junior 100cc has 14, and the returning names they single out include Johnny Stamps, Archer Eversman, Scott Falcone, Christopher Mann, Lucas Tarango, and Hudson Hidalgo.", "Briggs and Stratton 206 opens with a much smaller field than expected, while Howden and Cole also note that several Cadet and Junior drivers are splitting time between two-cycle and four-cycle classes."]
The winter series reaches its finale at Speed Sports Racing Park, with Rob Howden and David Cole walking through the third and fourth rounds of the Supercarts USA championship after Cole's warmer weekend in New Caney, Texas.