Jim Russell Northern California Rotax Challenge Season Finale at Dixon this weekend.

The most successful Jim Russell Northern California Rotax Challenge ever will run its last race of the season at the Kinsmen Kart Club in Dixon on Sunday, November 8th. This will be the tenth and final race of the 2009 season and will be the first time the series will finish its season at a track other than the Jim Russell International Karting Center track at Infineon Raceway. Even though several class championships have been locked up, there are still two classes with championships too close to call and several other classes where 2nd or 3rd place finishes in the championship are still to be determined.

The class with the closest championship battle is Senior Rotax. This class has been the hardest fought class in the series with seven different race winners in the first nine races. 2008 Class Champion Gregory Liefooghe holds a slim twenty point lead over 2008 Junior Rotax Class Champion Jordan Jadallah. The first year senior driver Jadallah won the last race at Infineon on October 26th to force a shoot out with Liefooghe at Dixon. Both drivers have driven the Dixon track well in the past and thus are expected to battle hard for the win in this last race. There is a four driver battle for 3rd place in the Senior class championship with Nikola Radosavljevich holding a slim lead over Nic LeDuc, Jake Mottaz and Matthew Powers.

The Rotax Masters class has a three way battle for the class championship with Donald Durbin holding the lead over David Harwin and Jack Arluck. Harwin has been the speed of the series this year, but has run into bad luck on three different occasions which opened the door for Durbin to take a run at the championship. Harwin must win the pre-main and main and hope for some bad luck to impact Durbin in order to emerge class champion. Arluck also has a mathematical chance to win the class if both Durbin and Harwin have very bad days.

All other classes have champions all but crowned, but there are still some race battles to determine other class positions. The 3rd place class position in Micro Max has Sarah Setzer holding a slim lead over a surging Toni Breidinger. The Rotax DD2 runner up position has David Arnstein trying to displace current second place points driver Kyle Gimple.

This will be the Nor Cal Rotax Challenge's third visit to the Dixon track this year where the Rotax classes run as part of the normal Kinsmen Kart Club race program. 2009 Rotax turnouts have been the strongest in history for the Dixon events, and the racing has been very action packed.

Saturday, November 7th, will be available for practice for a cost of $30 with the Rotax class entry fee for Sunday at $75. Rotax national membership is not required for this race. Saturday practice is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Sunday practice starts at 9:00 am with the pre-mains starting about Noon.