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Kaleb earns 2 National Championships

Kaleb added two more Duffies to his collection as he won the Jr. 2 Heavy and Jr. 2 Animal Heavy National championships in Brookings, SD. On the opening day of the 2011 IKF Grand Nationals Kaleb started 7th in the Jr. 2 Light feature and quickly worked his way to the top 3. With two laps to go he was running second behind Dylan LaCroix and tried everything to get under LaCroix but settle for the runner-up position. After a 24 hour rain delay the Jr. 2 Heavy championship took to the track on Thursday where Kaleb earned the pole position. He led the first few laps and then fell back to 4th. With 6 laps remaining he and Levi Preston started drafting together and ran the leaders down. With the white flag waving Kaleb was running 4th and going down the backstretch the front three karts all got together and Kaleb went to the bottom entering turn 3 and came out with the victory. On Friday we bolted on the Animal motor and Kaleb felt really confident about this motor that we just got back from TRR Racing Engines. He started 4th in the feature and was really never a factor and ended up in 5th place. Saturday morning was the final day of the 2011 Grand Nationals and Kaleb earned the 3rd starting spot in the Jr. 2 Animal Heavy feature. He passed Jerrod Ballhagen for the early lead and held off a late race green-white-checkered finish to earn his second Duffy of the week.

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