The 2025 Banquet is SATUDAY, Feb 21st at the Courtyard by Marriot in Hamilton, OH
Join us for a great evening of celebrating the 2026 Season with dinner, drawings, awards, and prizes!
Remember, you MUST be present to claim your participation and banquet drawing prizes!
If you have any questions, please reach out to Dan Fiehrer or Ray McKibben

ATTENTION RACERS:

Please download the full, updated VENDOR MAP and LOAD-IN INSTRUCTIONS for the Swap Meet at OVKA.com/swap-meet

Timeline

Friday – 1/23/2025

1:00 pm – 8:00 pm / Vendor Load-In & Setup

ALL LOAD IN must go through South Dock Door “A” or North Dock Door “D”

3:00 pm – 8:00 pm / Vendor wristband Sales

Saturday – 1/24/2025

6:30 am – 8:00 am / Vendor Load-In & Setup

ALL LOAD IN must go through South Dock Door “A” or North Dock Door “D”

6:30 am – 8:00 am / Vendor Wristband Sales @ North Dock Door

8:00 am – 3:00 pm / Doors Open to General Public

3:00 pm – 8:00pm / Vendor Teardown

OVKA MEMBERS: Membership renewals for the 2026 season are now available for purchase at OVKA.alphatiming.co.uk A membership is required to score points in the 2026 OVKA Season, and allows you to reserve your kart number in your class(es). Existing members, please renew your memberships early, we will open up membership to all New Members starting at the Trade Show & Swap Meet on Jan 24th!

OVKA is proud to once again offer a series of Seminars and Tech Trainings at the 2026 Trade Show & Swap Meet! Our Free Seminars include: Intro to Karting with OVKA for new racers, MyChron & Race Studio Data Analysis with Matt Romanowski of TrailBrake.com, and Briggs 206 Tuning and Maintenance with Gary Lawson of Lawson Speed Shop.
Sign up for these seminars at the following link to help us track anticipated attendance (https://form.jotform.com/253619009658061)

We are also offering two Tech Training Sessions: Briggs 206 Training with Brian Carlson of Carlson Racing Engines, and RIX Tech Tools Training with Lewis Stout. Sign up for these trainings by contacting the respective contacts.

The 40th Annual OVKA Karting Trade Show and Swap Meet returns SATURDAY January 24 , 2026at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH!

Gear up with everything you need to go racing in Sprint, Dirt, Oval, Road Racing, and Vintage karting! Registration for vendors is OPEN NOW at OVKA.com!

JOIN US!

OVKA - Intro to Karting Webinar
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EST)

Meeting link: OVKA - Intro to Karting Webinar | Microsoft Teams | Meetup-Join

THANKS AGAIN to everyone who came out yesterday for Clean Up!

Notes for the Off-Season:

>The 2026 Schedule & Rulebook should be ready for release next month after Board Review

>Vendor Registration for the 2026 Trade Show and Swap Meet is OPEN NOW at OVKA.com/swap-meet (If you are interested in volunteering for Swap Meet setup or event staffing, please contact Dan Fierher or Nob Neuzel)

>Details for the 2025 Season Banquet are available at OVKA.com/banquet Registration will be opening in the coming weeks. (If you are interested in helping with the Banquet, please contact Dan Fierher)

>We will be hosting a FREE Online Webinar for NEW RACERS on Tuesday November 25. (Registration is open at https://www.jotform.com/build/253146998670067) Please forward the info along to any potential new members you may know of, we've already seen 20+ new racers sign up to attend!

>Please post your favorite videos and pictures from 2025 on social media and remember to tag OVKA and G&J Kartway! We've got over 5,000 pictures from the season available for download at: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNmZ_tVZu6nN6tHa8hnSq7No0l2JCjzBpe-sp7G_s0OjAIyA6zWNOZ94VzHNehqyg?key=SVV4UG45bkdSS3Fnb0t0THp3bFlEb1ZuLUZFa1VB

Interested in getting started in high-performance outdoor kart racing? OVKA hosts racing for all ages from 5-years old to 50+ and you can learn how to go racing with our free online webinar! Sign up at the link below and receive a link for the meeting on Tuesday November 25. We'll cover everything for interested racers who are BRAND NEW to karting, from shopping for your first kart, specifics on safety equipment, and race day procedures with OVKA!

REGISTER HERE

https://form.jotform.com/253146998670067

With an already busy off-season underway, we are going to punt on rescheduling the Charity Race in 2025 that was postponed for weather in the spring, and try to come back with a refreshed event format for 2026 that will hopefully be able to attract some good attendance. We hope you have a good off-season and we hope to see you at the Banquet and Swap Meet.

RULES COMMITTEE will meet online at the link on OVKA.com on Oct 11 & 18 at 11:00am. OPEN DISCUSSION from General Membership is welcome, so come join in to help make the changes you want to see for 2026!

REMINDER: Rules Committee DOES NOT set the 2026 schedule or tire compound.

January 24, 2026
Roberts Centre
Wilmington, Ohio

Details coming soon

JOIN US for the FINAL Points race of 2025! Registration is OPEN NOW at OVKA.alphatiming.co.uk for Race 12!

Reminders:

>Contact Josh Wagar or Elliot Bokeno if you're interested in participating in Rules Committee in the offseason to review and update the OVKA rulebook.

>Contact Dan Fiehrer if your're interested in helping to plan the 2025 Awards Banquet and 2026 OVKA Trade Show & Swap Meet!

JOIN US this weekend for a DOUBLE HEADER of racing on Saturday AND Sunday! Saturday will be our makeup race for the weather-delayed Race 8, on Configuration 1A. This will be a SATURDAY race on the SUNDAY schedule (Gates 7am, Warmups 9am, etc). Sunday will be the regularly scheduled Race 11, on Configuration 2C. You will need to register for each race individually at OVKA.alphatiming.co.uk REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW!

Also, make sure to stick around SATURDAY evening for our BBQ cookoff & potluck with our club members!

JOIN US on Sunday August 10 for OVKA Race #10 and your final chance to get in laps at G&J Kartway before the Cup Karts North America Race next week! Registration is OPEN at OVKA.alphatiming.co.uk

Rules and info can be found at OVKA.com, we hope to see you there!

JOIN US on SUNDAY August 3rd for Race 9 of the 2025 Season at G&J Kartway, on the fast & furious 1C configuration!
Registration opens Monday at OVKA.alphatiming.co.uk ; refunded account credits from the postponed Race #8 should auto-apply at checkout.