Jim Kaiser Jr. Racing......and The Kaiser Family Racing History......from 1963 to 2008

Page 1 - Alan Kaiser 2008 Season
Page 2 - Jim Kaiser Jr. Racing
Page 3 - Vallejo Speedway, Our Dad, and his brothers
Page 4 - Vallejo Speedway odds and ends
Page 5 - More Kaiser's ? - There's more to the family!
Page 6 - Racing Links

Merry Christmas !

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Page 1 - Alan Kaiser - Driver & Car Owner

2008 - Brand new Toyota powered Sprint Car
with driver Tony Hunt

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Alan's car for 2008 - Now with Toyota Power

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First race of the 2008 season at All American Speedway in Roseville, California

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Tony Hunt @ Roseville 04-12-2008

2007   -   2007   -   2007

Tony Hunt in Alan's car at Salt Lake City
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April 28th, 2007 at Rocky Mountian Raceway

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Alan at Champion Speedway, Carson City, Nevada 2004

Thank you for visiting our website! 

Our Kaiser family has been involved in auto racing since the very early 1960's and has had a lot of fun and success along the way.  My dad, Jim, with his brothers, Robert (Bob), and Lonnie, are the ones who got it going with racing Modified Hardtops at Vallejo Speedway in 1963.  It was a great time and was probably the most fun that we will ever have racing.  The cars were cool, the engines were loud(no one complained), and the racing was fantastic.  The cars were all hand built and every one of them was unique.  Some were clunkers and some were awesome for their time.  Those of us that were there would all agree on that.

These pages here are for everybody.  The young ones who like the new cars, and the old geezers who love the old cars.  I like all of them.  The early Vallejo Speedway hardtops are probably my favorite cars, but the 1970's super-modifieds at West Capitol, 1980's to 1990's sprint cars at Baylands and San Jose, and the new pavement sprint cars from today are all very cool too.  Take a look at all of them! 

 

 

Page one!
 
Alan Kaiser - the one who got it all going again!

This first page is dedicated to Alan, who deserves all the credit, for kicking us in the rear end and getting us back to the races.  He is slightly younger than me but has much more drive and ambition to get out there and race.  Around 2003, about 8 years since our last race car, Alan went out and purchased a used Tognotti pavement sprint car, and decided that it was time to go racing again.  This car was the purple and yellow #45 car pictured at the top of the page.  After racing this car at tracks like Carson City, Tuscon, Las Vegas and Altamont for about a year and half he went out and bought a new Eagle chassis sprint car and started getting more serious about racing.  This car was much faster and racing started getting much more serious.  It's the burgundy #94 pictured here.  This is the car that I am driving now in 2006!

Boy, racing sure has gotten expensive!

We race on a pretty tight budget.  Alan and I pretty much pay for every nut and bolt out of our own pockets, Alan owns the car and I just pay for maintenance and racing costs.  But it still adds up!  What else are you going to spend your money on?  Right!

At the beginning of the 2005 season, Alan decided to step out of the drivers seat and put in USAC champion Tony Hunt, when Tony suddenly became available right before the first race of the season.  They had some success that year and finished in the top 5 almost every race and finished 4th in the point standings.  In 2006, he decided to really get serious and bought new Beast chassis roller and a new Bailey Bros. engine, and proceded to win 7 of 14 races and the 2006 championship in the USAC Sprint Western States division including winning the prestigous Turkey Night grand prix at Irwindale Speedway.  Nice going!!!!
 
2006 was also my first year back in a race car since 1997. (thanks to Alan for letting me drive the #94 car).  My goal that year?  Learn to race on pavement oval tracks and don't wreck the car!

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Alan at speed. Champion Speedway, Carson City, Nevada 2004

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Alan at Tucson Raceway in Arizona, November 2004

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Alan @ Irwindale Speedway on Turkey night 2004

Alan Kaiser as an owner - 2006 USAC champion
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Alan, along with his driver Tony Hunt, and crew, Mike and Kerry after winning Turkey Night 2006

SCCA racing back in 1987
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Alan getting ready to run the Formula Vee at Sears Point Raceway

SCCA Formula Vee road racing
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Alan at Sears Point in 1987, he kinda has that Jeff Gordon look before there was a Jeff Gordon

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Jim Sr., Dawn, Steve, Alan

Another time that Alan let me drive one of his sprint cars.  Here he his with my mom and dad and  our friend Steve .  I think we are at San Jose in 1997.  Dirt racing is fun stuff!  (Except for scraping the mud off and washing it off the next day)

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San Jose 1997

Here is a better pic of the car at San Jose back in 1997.

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Alan at Tucson Raceway in 2004

This is the car Alan bought when he got serious about going pavement racing back in 2004 and 2005.  It only had one race on it before Alan bought it.

  

Page 1 - Alan Kaiser Page - 2008 Season is here!

Page 2 - Jim Kaiser Jr. Racing Page

Page 3 - Kaiser Family Page and Vallejo Speedway

Page 4 - Vallejo Speedway odds and ends

Page 5 - More Kaiser's? - There's more to the family!

Page 6 - Racing Links