tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146326872009-06-10T15:38:30.545-05:00Determined to become one of today's top racing talents, <br>Sam Marmurowicz has shown himself to be a serious contender <br>in the WKA.<br><br>Driving the #98 Pegasus Auto Racing/ OMP Margay, Sam has <br>proven he's quick and consistent while earning his first Driver's <br>Championship in HPV Jr with the Badger Kart Club. With the<br> dedication of Inch-Hi Motorports and the continued support <br> from our business partners, this combination can only <br>strengthen our bid for future success.Mnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14632687.post-79465567243025511652009-06-10T15:31:00.009-05:002009-06-10T15:38:30.552-05:00

Like drag racing?Go to 3AM with Gus for more information on how we spent our week off from the track.

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This past weekend at Badger Raceway was very productive for us and heartbreaking all at the same time. So much good could have come from our efforts, but being in the wrong place at the wrong time would end our charge prematurely.To our surprise, and our pleasure, eleven competitors showed up for our class on Sunday. It was the most HPV's we've seen in one place outside of a national event and

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May 10th and 17th at Badger Raceway netted us two fourth place finishes in HPV Junior. What sounds and looks good on paper though isn't always how it seems.Sunday May 10th was virtually our first time out on a dry track so it took us some time to find our legs again. Several new drivers have found their way to our class this season and they are proving to be very fast right out of the box. A

Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14632687.post-44151088407367170702009-04-27T12:27:00.002-05:002009-04-27T12:36:48.846-05:00

Mother nature did it to us yet again. Round two of the BKC Bridgestone Championship series was rained out for the second straight weekend. We arrived on Friday evening and immediately went to work on the kart, rebuilding the carb and clutch. What we hoped would have been a great day of testing on Saturday turned into a waiting game with countless hours of TV and board games. After everything was

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In grand fashion and what has historically happened for years, the season opener at Badger Raceway was a rain out. Only three classes were awarded race points with the rest of us receiving 200 rain points.Not too disappointing seeing that we had to scramble to get the kart even drivable on Friday. Saturday's weather was fantastic but between broken parts and upwards of 40 karts being on the track

Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14632687.post-71273378759216785082009-03-13T14:26:00.002-05:002009-03-13T14:42:56.159-05:00

If I may ask, please direct your attention to the side bar on your right as you'll find our 2009 schedule has been assembled. Even though our primary focus right now is more toward the regional and national level, current events could force us to stay closer to our local track this season.  As stated previously, this schedule is subject to change should we find ourselves in a situation that

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Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14632687.post-47512306526813044842009-03-10T10:41:00.006-05:002009-03-10T12:28:49.252-05:00

Hello everyone and thanks for being so patient with us over the past few months.  My normal chatty self had very little to say since we had no idea of what our season would look like, and if we were going to have one at all.Our first obstacle (which we really haven't cleared yet) was whether or not a certain division of my wife's company is planning to strike like they've been threatening to do

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Wow, that's a mouthful. If it even made sense at all!It's been quite a while since we last posted anything on our site so we first wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday and hope your Christmas brought everything your hearts desired. Good luck to all of our friends who made the trek to the WKA season opener in Daytona, (I swear one year we'll do it too) and we hope your trip is a safe one. What

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Want to see more? Go to 3AM With Gus for more details.

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That's all she wrote for 2008. Our season at the Badger Kart Club, and karting in general for this season has finally come to a close. Third place in the points is where we landed and like every year at about this time you can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from fans and competitors alike. But as always we find ourselves asking each other how it came and went so soon. It seemed like

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Points Race #14 at Dousman this past weekend left a bit to be desired. We managed to run our fastest time of the season thus far, a 39.44, but couldn't seem to put anyone behind us in the process. We had a good turnout for a change with ten entries in our class. Coming off our high from the Road America event we felt confident in our abilities to finally run with the faster drivers who might

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When I said in our last post to hang on because we've just begun I wasn't kidding. This past Sunday at Road America Sam has proven that it's his turn to be a major concern to others on the track as he posted a well deserved fourth place finish in his HPV Junior class of nine drivers."I'm just shooting for a top five finish" he said, before heading to the grid for his feature race. After all we

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Wow! What a difference that change made. We decided to try a different engine builder (our third in two years) and I think we got it right this time. Saturday we got to the track late in the day hoping there would be some sort of a track to work with. The club had been off for two weeks and people had been saying that times were off due to no rubber on the track. We found no break either as we

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Although the amount of money spent this weekend wasn't nearly as much as last week's, the amount of frustration seen from driver and crew was just as high.It all boils down to seat time. And when priorities with one of my three jobs or scheduling conflicts in our personal lives should interfere with this it's easily noticed on race day. We only managed to finish a couple of hours of testing time

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I know I've said it before and with my luck I fear today won't be the last, but this was by far the worst week we've ever had to date. Beginning this last Tuesday our intention was to get out and dust off the cob webs after a six week hiatus from racing. We planned on practicing each day out at our local track leading up to this past weekend's event. But all too often we find that what you plan

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We only came to practice. But after the spot where our truck and trailer was parked literally turned into a running stream we decided to white knuckle it through the night and try leaving in the morning.We just can't seem to catch a break here in Wisconsin. What first appeared to be a winter that was never going to let go quickly turned into the Great Lakes Tsunami season. Saturday we only

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Congratulations to us is due in the fact that we've broken yet another record in our illustrious career in karting. We've managed to spend more money at this past weekend's Midwest Sprint Series Race at Badger than we have in any race to date and with absolutely nothing to show for it.Round two of the MWSS headed to Badger Kart Club this past weekend and we felt confident that we could run not

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Nothing of much importance to report about our last event. Sunday May 11th was rained out. We did manage to scuff in some new tires and complete a few laps on Saturday before the weather went away on us. The temps fell and turned the track in to a slippery mess so we threw in the towel early in hopes of the weatherman being wrong about Sunday. I'm very surprised to say that for the first time one

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Sorry everyone! I haven't been able to update all of you on our progress so far this year. Obligations with work and family have made it nearly impossible to keep this site up to date as well as my own personal page over at 3am with Gus.I'm serious about passing the torch to our illustrious hero that I write about every week and make him bring these installments to you with his very own words.

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If you stared out the window every day for the past three months and all you seen was this you wouldn't be too hopeful that the 2008 racing season is about five weeks away either.At the rate this weather is coming at us I think we're going to take the month of April off and just hit the ground running in May. More news as the date draws nearer.

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Subject to change. The following dates are a starting point of where our schedule should take us next year. We're going to try and make four of the five Midwest Sprint Series races with a career first for Sam in the Dunlop Tire Road America Supernationals. Because of this we are most likely going to compete in only half of the scheduled Bridgestone Point Series races at Badger, but as we've

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This past November the Badger Kart Club hosted it's annual awards banquet again at the Olympia Resort in Oconomowoc Wisconsin. As in years past everyone in attendance was treated to a fine night of food and festivities leading up to the awards ceremony.This year we got the big one! Class Champion in HPV Jr. and although I myself voted earlier in the year for a change in the awards, mainly to

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All year I wrench on my son's kart and envy him for having the opportunity to do this at his age. Ever since I can remember I wanted to have something to do with racing. And when an uncle of mine purchased a kart and began competing with it back in the 70's I knew where I wanted to be. So I pestered my father and saved my money but nothing ever came of it. Whether it was a lack of money, a lack

Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14632687.post-30602180724873452252007-10-22T16:24:00.000-05:002008-12-09T18:34:47.588-06:00

The 2007 racing season is in the books with Sam finishing first in points and earning himself his first class Championship in HPV Junior.This year was his third year in karting. It was also his third different chassis in karting. And to top it all off this was the third different powerplant sitting behind him so the learning curve had to be repeated every season. Just when he would get

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