Team Top Kart USA once again came away with a successful weekend at the Stars of Karting West opener at Miller Motorsports Park. Though the team did not score any wins, the team saw its JICA drivers return to their true form of running at the front and challenging for wins. 

Showing strong throughout practice Team Top Kart USA TaG drivers carried that momentum into qualifying with three of the five qualifying positions. Chris Scribner led the team in third with Neil Alberico in fourth, Chris Wehrheim in fifth, and Neil McCoy in eleventh. Scribner went on to win the first two heats giving him pole position for both finals. If not for fuel separation on heat 3 for Wehrheim, he and Scribner would have most likely made it an all Top Kart front row for the finals. Final One started out very well for the team with Scribner, Wehrheim, and McCoy running in the top six. While pulling in the lead group on lap five Wehrheim had a brake failure forcing him to retire from the event. Scribner went on to finish fourth while being involved in a heated battle for podium all race long. McCoy finished tenth with Alberico’s throttle cable broke forcing him to also retire. Once again the team had a great start for Final Two. Wehrheim and McCoy had strong runs to finish fourth and fifth. Scribner battled a sore engine finishing seventh while Alberico moved up to ninth.