Championship Kart Racing Association, Inc.

Location & Directions

Thompson Kart Raceway is part of the Thompson Drag Raceway facilities located in Thompson, Ohio in northeastern Geauga county.

The address is 8233 Sidley Road, Thompson, Ohio, 44086-9727. Clicking the map below will take you to mapquest.com where the map will become interactive and you can enter your home address and get directions from mapquest. Partial directions will be provided below.

Suggested directions:

From I-90 westbound
Take the Ohio route 528 Thompson exit and head south of route 528. Continue south on route 528 for about ten and a half miles going through South Madison and Thompson until reaching the intersection with Ohio route 166. There will be a large sign advertising Thompson Drag Raceway on the left side of the road. Turn left to head east on route 166. Go east for about 2 miles to Sidley road. There is an ice cream store on the left side of the road and a very small sign on the right for the dragstrip. Turn right onto Sidley Road and travel south for about a mile or so. The dragstrip will be on the left. The first driveway is for dragstrip traffic. All kart traffic should go past the first gate and enter through the second gate. Proceed back to the kart track after paying your gate fee. Gate fee is $6 a person with under 8 free.

From I-90 eastbound
You can either follow the directions for I-90 westbound or these directions which are a little shorter. Exit I-90 onto Vrooman Road. Head south on Vrooman Road for about two miles to a five way intersection. Proceed onto Ohio route 86, Plank Road, which is almost straight across the intersection. Proceed southeast on Plank Road for about nine miles to an intersection with Ohio route 166, Rock Creek Road. Turn left onto route 166 heading northeast for about six miles to Sidley Road after crossing route 528. There is an ice cream store on the left side of the road and a very small sign on the right for the dragstrip. Turn right onto Sidley Road and travel south for about a mile or so. The dragstrip will be on the left. The first driveway is for dragstrip traffic. All kart traffic should go past the first gate and enter through the second gate. Proceed back to the kart track after paying your gate fee. Gate fee is $6 a person with under 8 free.

Burroughs Road is a more direct route to the second gate but is a bumpy gravel road that may be undesirable to many.

Here is an image borrowed from maps.google.com which shows the new track from a satellite view and its relation to the dragstrip.

The Thompson Drag Raceway and the old Thompson Kart Raceway may be seen in the aerial photograph from mapquest.com. Unfortunately the photo is too old to show the new track. Clicking the photo below will take you to mapquest where the image will become interactive. All kart traffic should enter the second gate as shown in the aerial photograph.

What's new at CKRA

10/29/2008 Points Race Seventeen is a complete. The race results can be found here.
The season standings can be found here.

Please join me in congratulating our season champions for each class:

50cc Kid Karts
All of them!

Federico Tire 2 Cycle JUnior Sportsman
Jeremy Armstrong

Scheid's Truc'N'RV Sales and Service Briggs Restricted Junior
Dennis Susman

Tow Pro Trailers 4 Cycle Junior Sportsman
Sarah Luoma

Saturn of Mentor Junior Supercan
Tyler Brzeczkowski

American Power Sports Senior Sportsman
John Burton

Cometic Gasket Briggs Animal
John Burton

10/24/2008 Points Race Sixteen is a complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The FINAL Points Race is Sunday, October 26.

10/14/2008 Points Race Fifteen is a complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next Points Race is Sunday, October 19.

10/09/2008 Points Race Fourteen is a rainout. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next Points Race is Sunday, October 12.

10/09/2008 Points Race Thirteen is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

09/09/2008 Points Race Twelve is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at TKR on Saturday, September 13, and the next Points Race is Sunday, September 14.

09/09/2008 Barberton won the NIKC cup only to find out it's still at Fremont which was a no show at Barberton.

08/25/2008 Points Race Eleven is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The NIKC is Sunday, August 31 at Barberton. Check the forum for more details.

The next practice is at TKR on Saturday, September 6, and the next Points Race is Sunday, September 7 with a 50 lap Sr. Animal event.

08/07/2008 Points Race Nine is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here. Points Race Ten is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at TKR on Saturday, August 23, and the next Points Race is on Sunday August 24. There will be a driver's school on Sunday, August 17. Check the forum for details.

07/29/2008 Points Race Eight is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at TKR on Saturday, August 2 prior to the night race, and the next Points Races are on Saturday night August 2 and during the day on Sunday, August 3.

07/27/2008 Points Race Seven is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at TKR on Saturday, July 26, and the next Points Race is on Sunday, July 27.

Your Webmaster apologizes for the delay in posting, but he's been away on business and will be again next week.

07/09/2008 Points Race Six, the Eastlake Grand Prix, is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at Thompson on Saturday, July 12, and the next Points Race is on Sunday, July 13.

07/04/2008 Points Race Five is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice is at the EGP on Saturday, July 5, and the next Points Race is the EGP on Sunday, July 6.

The Eastlake Grand Prix is here! Don't miss it!

06/21/2008 Points Race Four is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice at Thompson is Wednesday, June 25 and Saturday, June 28, and the next Points Race is Sunday, June 29. This will be the yawecaR traK nospmohT.

The Eastlake Grand Prix is coming up fast! Don't miss it!

05/06/2008 Points Race Three is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice at Thompson is Wednesday, June 4 and Saturday, June 7, and the next Points Race is Sunday, June 8.

The Driver's School is the following weekend on Sunday June 15, 2008. Stay tuned for more detail.

05/06/2008 Points Race Two is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice at Thompson is Wednesday, May 14 and Saturday, May 17, and the next Points Race is Sunday, May 18. Kid Scooter Races will be part of the show!

04/30/2008 Points Race One is complete. The race results can be found here. The season standings can be found here.

The next practice at Thompson is Wednesday, Apr. 30 and Saturday, May 3, and the next Points Race is Sunday, May 4.

04/08/2008 The season is HERE!!!! April 4th and 5th are our first "Work 2 Practice" days. We hope you are planing to bring out your friends and family to help get things started. We got a lot done last year, but we will still have the normal clean up and painting to get done. We want to make some other improvements to make the track more racer/volunteer friendly.

A great promotional oppertunity is The Geauga County Maple Fest Parade. We need a good group to participate in the parade. We will tow several karts behind a Saturn, and will need six people to walk the crowd and hand out club fliers. Most of our promotional oppertunities are closer to Cleveland. This one is in our own back yard. Please let us know if you can help with this.

Some bigger projects to be completed are...finish the two new corner worker station structures. Construct the other curbing in the last couple of corners. Install perminant lighting bars on top of all of the light poles. Install PA speakers and covers. Put windows in the towwer and replace the towwer door. There is more to do, but this should give everyone an idea of the things we would like to get accomplished.

Satellite view of the Thompason Kart Raceway

2009 CKRA Season Schedule

April

Saturday 4/4	WorkTo Practice Day
Sunday 4/5	Work To Practice Day
Saturday 4/11	Work To Practice Day
Wednesday 4/15	Practice
Saturday 4/18	Work To Practice Day
Sunday 4/19	Race #1
Wednesday 4/22	Practice
Saturday 4/25	Practice
Sunday 4/26	Race #2

May

Saturday 5/9	Practice
Wednesday 5/13	Practice
Saturday 5/16	Practice
Sunday 5/17	Race #3
Wednesday 5/20	Practice
Saturday 5/23	Practice
Sunday 5/24	Race #4
	Yamaha Pipe Invitational
Saturday 5/30	Practice

June

Wednesday 6/10	Practice
Saturday 6/13	Race #5 (Night Race)
Wednesday 6/24	Practice
Saturday 6/27	Practice
Sunday 6/28	Race #6

July

Wednesday 7/1	Practice
Friday 7/3	Race #7 (Night Race)
	Cook Out / Fireworks
Saturday 7/11	Practice
Sunday 7/12	Race #8
Wednesday 7/29	Practice

August

Saturday 8/1	Race #9 (Night Race)
	TaG Invitational
Sunday 8/2	Race #10
	Yamaha Pipe Invitational
Sunday 8/9	CKRA Drivers School
Sunday 8/16	"Tire Loading Party" EGP
Friday 8/21	EGP Set up
Saturday 8/22	EGP Set up/Practice
Sunday 8/23	Race #11 Eastlake Grand Prix
Saturday 8/29	Practice
Sunday 8/30	Race #12
	Yamaha Pipe Invitational

September

Saturday 9/5	Practice
Sunday 9/6	Race #13 Night Race
Saturday 9/19	Practice
Sunday 9/20	Race #14
	Timed Qualifying
	50 Lap Animal race

October

Sunday 10/4	Race #15
	Timed Qualifying
	50 Lap Sr Can Race
Sunday 10/11	Race #16
Sunday 10/18	Race #17

November

Sunday 11/1	Fun Race
	Holloween Spook-tacular

Sunday Races
9:00am Gates Open
9:30am Registration Opens
10:30am Practice Starts
11:00am Registration Closes
11:45am Drivers Meeting
12:00noon Racing Starts
Heat one 12 laps
Heat Two 12 laps
Intermission
Feature 16 laps
Total of 40 laps of racing!

Saturday Night Races
1pm Gates open
2-4:30pm Practice
5pmDrivers Meeting
5:30pm Heat Races

Race Day Fees
Gate Fee: $6
(7 & under free)
Entry Fee: $25
Includes Pit Pass
Addutional Pit Pass: $5
Practice Fees
Wednesday Practice: $10
Saturday Practice: $15

Points
17 points races
Best 10 of 17 count towards year end awards

3rd Annual
Eastlake Grand Prix
Sunday August 23
Captains Standium Parking Lot
Eastlake, Ohio

1st Annual
Yamaha Pipe Invitational Series
Three race series
Sunday 5/24
Sunday 8/2
Sunday 8/30
Special trophy awarded to series winner

Work to Practice
Gates open: 9:00am
Work begins: 9:30am
Open practice: 1:30pm to 5:00pm

MISSION STATEMENT

To create a comfortable club racing environment promoting family involvement in aspha;t kart racing. To promote safe, exciting, enjoyable events with consistent expectations by all involved. To train and educate by raising the quality of operations of events. To bring a much greater awareness to the sport for the benefit of THE KARTERS.

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2008: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
2009: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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Forum Guidelines

Contact CKRA

CKRA Classes

Officers Page

History Page

Advertising Page

Welcome!!

Welcome to the official web site for Championship Kart Racing Association. We are a club of karters who's home track is the sprint asphalt road course at Thompson Kart Raceway. We also sponsor the Eastlake Grand Prix charity event in July. There are many ways to be a part of the racing at Thompson Kart Raceway. Become involved! Contact us to find out.