Teams · 2026 season
Which SoCal kart team should we be looking at?
A “team” in sprint karting is not what it is in Little League. Nobody picks you. You pay a program to store, haul, prep and tune your kart, to put a mechanic on it between sessions, and to coach your kid from the fence or in one-on-one lead-follow sessions on track. None of them publish prices, almost none publish what they actually offer, and Yelp and Google reviews are close to nonexistent. So we pulled every 2026 race sign-up and result in Southern California to see who actually runs what.
Of the 22 teams under a tent in SoCal in 2026, 11 ran three or more kids under 12. The big national-level tents ran none of them on four-stroke.
At the local club series, one kid in five raced with no team at all, and in the youngest classes those kids finished on the podium as often as anyone.
Two of the 22 publish a price. Everyone else quotes privately; the national range is “$1k to $15k a weekend, depending on what the program offers.” (What karting actually costs.)
Built from about 2,700 final entries in the 2026 COTF America, Tri-C Karters and SKUSA ProKart Challenge official timing and entry lists, plus the teams’ own websites and socials. Last updated October 20, 2026; we update it after each round.
How to read this page. Nothing here came from the teams. We did not call or email any of them to confirm; every number and class is what we could find in public 2026 entry lists, timing sheets and the teams’ own websites and socials, as of October 2026. Treat it as a map of where each tent’s attention was this year, not a verdict on who they would take or what they charge. If you run one of these teams and something is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
The series. COTF America is the national-level weekend series at K1 Circuit in Winchester. Tri-C Karters is the local club series at Apex (Perris), Adams (Riverside), Willow Springs and Spring Mountain. PKC is SKUSA’s California ProKart Challenge. Tri-C also hosted the IKF Grand Nationals this year, a national event counted separately below.
The words. A tent is a team’s trackside operation; a privateer races with no team; a podium is a top-three finish in a final; four-stroke (Kid Kart, LO206, Tillotson T4) is the cheaper engine ladder, two-stroke (Micro and Mini Swift, KA100, X30) the faster, pricier one; a shifter is a 125cc kart with a six-speed gearbox, the fastest and most expensive rung.
Start here
How old is your kid?
Pick an age and the page shows only the teams that actually ran kids in those classes in 2026. The bars count kids: how many drivers in that age group raced with each team at least once in 2026.
Ages 5–7Kid Kart — number of kids who raced with each team in 2026
One kid each: Precision Driving Concepts, Croc Promotion USA, Mike Manning Karting, Troy Adams Coaching.
Ages 8–12Micro Swift · Mini Swift · LO206 Cadet — number of kids who raced with each team in 2026
One kid each: Competition Speed, MSRT Maxwell, Precision Karting.
Ages 12–15T4 Junior · KA100 Junior — number of kids who raced with each team in 2026
One kid each: S Squared, MSRT Maxwell, Mike Manning Karting.
16 and upT4 Senior · LO206 Senior · KA100 Senior · X30 Pro · Masters · World Formula · Shifters — number of kids who raced with each team in 2026
One kid each: Competition Speed, Sanner Racing.
A kid who raced in two classes is counted in each. “No team” means the driver entered with no team listed: a privateer, usually a family running out of its own trailer. It is exact at COTF and Tri-C; at PKC it also includes drivers whose team we couldn’t identify, which mostly inflates the 16-and-up bar.
How many karts will be on the grid?
Average karts classified in a class final at a round, 2026, by series. Where your kid’s class runs 20 karts there is a real race; where it runs 3, there isn’t yet.
PKC “Shifters” sums six shifter classes. Tri-C excludes the Grand Nationals.
For the youngest drivers
Which teams run a four-stroke program for kids?
Kid Kart (5+), LO206 Cadet (about 8–12), LO206 Junior and Tillotson T4 Junior (about 12–15) drew 218 Tri-C entries from about 120 kids in 2026. Here’s where those kids were, counted once per class. The national two-stroke tents — Formula Works, Nash, HRT, Axis, KartNick — had none.
Trackside Karting Services (Atwater), Cashed Out Racing and Cole Nelson Racing (Nevada) and MD3 Motorsports (Santa Maria) are visiting tents, mostly at the Spring Mountain rounds.
Do you need a team?
At the club series, not for the youngest classes
For a Kid Kart, Micro, Mini or LO206 Cadet driver at Tri-C: no. Kids with no team finished on the podium at least as often as their share of the field. For KA100 Junior and Senior: effectively yes — no-team drivers took 6 of 59 podiums (10%). At COTF, one podium out of 161 went to a driver with no team.
Who was where
Every 2026 race weekend, every team
Read across for a team’s year; read down for who was there on a given weekend. If you join a team, this is your calendar. Pick an age above and the rows filter to match.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team · weekends | COTF R1Jan 31 | Tri-C Chill 3Jan 31 | Tri-C High Desert 1Feb 7 | COTF R2Feb 28 | COTF R3Mar 21 | Tri-C High Desert 2–3Apr 10 | COTF R4Apr 18 | PKC R1–2Apr 24 | Tri-C Cal Nights 1May 2 | PKC R3May 23 | COTF R5May 30 | Tri-C Cal Nights 2Jun 6 | COTF R6Jun 27 | COTF R7Jul 18 | Tri-C Cal Nights 3Aug 1 | PKC R4Aug 15 | COTF R8Aug 29 | Tri-C Sagebrush 1Sep 5 | PKC R5Sep 12 | COTF R9Sep 26 | PKC R6Oct 3 | Tri-C Sagebrush 2–3Oct 9 | IKF Grand NationalsOct 16 |
| Position One 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hayner Racing Team 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team KartNick 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Precision Works 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Formula Works / GFC 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nash Motorsportz 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Axis Kartsport 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phil Giebler Racing 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Precision Driving Concepts 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Precision Karting 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competition Speed 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Casner Racing Development 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mike Manning Karting 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sanner Racing 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Native Racing 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSRT Maxwell 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Croc Promotion USA 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Speed Factory 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proper Form 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Factory Karts 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| S Squared 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Troy Adams Coaching 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
A square = the team had karts in finals that weekend; bigger square = more karts (up to ~18). Number after the name = weekends raced out of 23. Scrolls sideways on a phone.
The teams
22 SoCal-based tents, biggest first
“Usually N karts” is how many karts the team had in finals on a typical weekend it attended — the size of the tent you would be joining. Most run 5 to 15. Nobody publishes a tent price; budget the series entry fees on top of whatever a team quotes. Everything here is from 2026 sign-ups and results (see the note at the top).
Formula Works / GFC
Corona
GFC Southwest distributor; the GFC factory team tents alongside at big events.
Hayner Racing Team (HRT)
Orange · K1 Circuit
Family operation (Kyle, James, Callie Hayner). Full-service: storage, transport, prep, private mechanic, data, arrive-and-drive rentals.
Precision Driving Concepts
Long Beach · coaches at K1
KC Cook's program; runs K1 Circuit's Race Academy; ages 5 and up. The biggest club tent in SoCal.
multi-brand
Nash Motorsportz
Riverside
Arrive-and-drive, service and coaching per its Instagram; no structure published.
Team KartNick
Orange County / N. San Diego
Micro through KA100 Senior; second-biggest tent at COTF.
no website found
Axis Kartsport
Ontario
Founded Jan 2025 by Matt Johnson and Connor DiMond. Juniors and up only in 2026.
Position One Motorsports
Baldwin Park
Listed as the team on 48 COTF, 46 Tri-C and 30 PKC entries, mostly Micro and Mini, and the series’ own race reports call its drivers teammates. Also known locally as an engine program, and it never appears on a PKC pit map, so whether this is a full trackside tent or an engine-and-support program families race under is the first thing to ask.
no website found
Precision Works Racing
Menifee / Perris
Engine builder and CRG dealer with a tent at all three series.
Proper Form Motorsports
Los Angeles
Whole club ladder from Kid Kart up; at every Tri-C round.
no website found
Phil Giebler Racing (PGR)
Irvine / Anaheim
The masters' home at Tri-C; also runs COTF.
Factory Karts
Jurupa Valley
Billy Musgrave's chassis brand; shifter-focused team at PKC.
Mike Manning Karting (MMK)
Rosamond · Willow Springs
Engine builder at the Willow Springs gates; KA100 seniors/masters and the FZ shifter path.
Precision Karting
Norco
Chris and Becky Johnson; trackside support, arrive-and-drive, parts. Not Precision Works or PDC.
Competition Speed
Riverside
The Biezonsky family's tent: Mini, KA100 Junior and FZ shifters at K1.
family team
Casner Racing Development
San Diego
San Diego's team: masters and LO206.
no website found
Croc Promotion USA
Ontario
Chassis importer with a club tent from Kid Kart to Open Shifter.
Speed Factory
Riverside
LO206 Senior and World Formula — adult club racing.
no website found
S Squared
Orange County / IE
LO206 Senior, World Formula, some T4 Junior.
no website found
Native Racing
Menifee / Canyon Lake
T4 and LO206 Cadet.
no website found
Sanner Racing
Wildomar
Engine shop (IAME) with a small cadet/junior tent.
MSRT Maxwell Motorsport
Irvine
Sim-racing business; its driver won the COTF X30 Pro title.
no website found
Troy Adams Coaching
Adams Motorsports Park, Riverside
Troy owns the track. One of only two published prices on this page.
TillotsonWhat is actually published
Every price we could find in writing, October 2026. Everything else is a conversation. Entry fees are what the series charge on top of whatever a team quotes.
| Who | What | Published price |
|---|---|---|
| Troy Adams Coaching | Lessons at Adams, kart included | from $300 |
| Precision Driving Concepts / K1 Race Academy | Group clinics at K1 Circuit | $180 and $399 |
| Tri-C Karters | Club race entry (member / non-member) and annual membership | $175 / $225, plus $100 |
| Adams Winter League | Race-day rental karts (Tillotson / mini shifter / 85–125 shifter) | $500 / $700 / $800 |
| Any tent | Mechanic for the weekend, storage, transport, coaching | Not published by anyone. Ask, and get it in writing. What we pay. |
For the data people
Where each team raced in 2026: every class, and the scoreboard
Where each team’s 2026 entries were
Sorted from all-K1 to all-club by where each team’s drivers raced, not where the team is based. The Grand Nationals are shown separately because they are a national event that happened to be on the Tri-C calendar.
Entries by team and class
Every 2026 final entry, by the team the driver declared. Darker is more. Scrolls sideways.
| kids | cadet (8–12) | junior (12–15) | 16 and up | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kid Kart | Micro Swift | Mini Swift | LO206 Cadet | T4 Junior | KA100 Junior | T4 Senior | LO206 Senior | KA100 Senior | X30 Pro | Masters | World Formula | Shifters | |
| Formula Works / GFC | 4 | 16 | 63 | 97 | 7 | 5 | 23 | ||||||
| Hayner Racing Team | 22 | 84 | 35 | 5 | |||||||||
| Precision Driving Concepts | 3 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 49 | 38 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Nash Motorsportz | 6 | 39 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 13 | |||||
| Team KartNick | 5 | 16 | 30 | 46 | 4 | 2 | |||||||
| Axis Kartsport | 24 | 1 | 64 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||
| Position One | 7 | 61 | 3 | 26 | |||||||||
| Precision Works | 18 | 24 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 4 | |||||
| Proper Form | 7 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Phil Giebler Racing | 17 | 14 | 2 | 26 | |||||||||
| Factory Karts | 4 | 1 | 6 | 36 | |||||||||
| Mike Manning Karting | 1 | 1 | 17 | 26 | |||||||||
| Precision Karting | 1 | 8 | 34 | ||||||||||
| Competition Speed | 17 | 18 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Casner Racing Development | 4 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 4 | ||||||||
| Croc Promotion USA | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Speed Factory | 17 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
| S Squared | 4 | 13 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Native Racing | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||
| Sanner Racing | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| MSRT Maxwell | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | |||||||||
| Troy Adams Coaching | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Podiums by team
P1–P3 in finals, official results after penalties. Adult and shifter classes count the same as cadets here, so this is not a ranking of kids’ programs.