Every sport has a ladder system.
Baseball champions start training in Little League. Hockey stars learn to skate in Pee-Wee leagues. Future football forces show their talents in Pop Warner. In Europe, kart racing has long been the official start of the car racing ladder.

In North America, karting has been gaining fast as the training ground for future car racing champions. In fact, 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.

CKI is making karting the official first rung in North America.
With a WKA-sanctioned national race series starting in 2009, Championship Karting International has been founded with a mission: Wanting more than a kart racing series, our founders are absolutely committed to using the kart racing arena to train the Motorsports champions of tomorrow.

CKI 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.

But training doesn’t end at the checkered flag. CKI is committed to teaching drivers how to conduct the business of racing as effective spokespeople and representatives for their sponsors and their sport. For example, at each race CKI helps drivers strengthen their promotional and presentation skills through live audio and video coverage, including interviews both before and after events, plus Formula One style podium press conferences and extensive media coverage throughout the Motorsports world – all with the utmost professionalism in print, electronic, video coverage and photography.

The 2009 Championship Karting International season.
Championship Karting International is holding a WKA-sanctioned 4-event 2009 season with races at some of the most highly regarded tracks in the US: New Castle Motorsports Park (May 29-31), New Jersey Motorsports Park (June 26-28), CalSpeed Kart Center (August 7-9) and a season finale on October 9-11 at Oklahoma Motorsports Complex.