DHB Racing

06/04/2026

Great weekend of racing in the ROTAX Max Junior class and spending time with friends for the first two rounds of the Great Lakes Sprint Series and Black River Kart Club at Lorain Ohio KartPlex!

I got pole position and won the pre-final and final both days!

Thank you to my season long partners for their support over the weekend:

JW Didado Electric
Herc Rentals
RoadSafe Traffic Systems
Twisted Tomato Pizzeria
Ray's Indoor Bike Park
Campbell Automotive and Recreational Services

Thanks to Oliver Hodgson Racing and Jade Goodwin Racing for their coaching at the Apex Karting Academy. All those laps at LOK had me prepared!

Thanks to Pro Kart Concepts for the assistance in the pits.

Next up is ROTAX Max Challenge Americas at Motorsports Country Club of Cincinnati.

05/23/2026

Good racing in the first round of the Midwest Apex Karting Championships at New Castle Motorsports Park. It was my first race in the LO206 Jr class since CKNA Grand Nationals last September and my first time under the Roderick Racing Development tent.

Showed top five pace in practice on Friday, but wet conditions all day Saturday made qualifying and the two heat races a challenge.

I qualified 16th of 33 drivers after avoiding spins and crashes on each of my 3 qualifying laps. In heat 1, several karts got tangled up in front of me on the first lap. I had nowhere to go but off track to avoid hitting them, which dropped me to the back of the pack, but recovered to finish 19th. In the second heat, I moved from 16th to 12th, which put me in 14th position to start the pre final.

In the pre final I gained five positions in the first 3 laps, but after contact from another driver, fell back to 14th with a gap too large for me to recover any positions.

In the final, I fell four positions on the first lap after getting squeezed off track, but locked in after that and improved to 8th by the finish.

Thanks to Roderick Racing Development and my parents for the support over the weekend and for my partners for making it possible for me to race against great competition in the Apex series:

JW Didado Electric
Herc Rentals
RoadSafe Traffic Systems Inc
Twisted Tomato Pizzeria
Ray's Indoor Bike Park

A special thank you to Campbell Automotive and Recreational Services for donating an improved new rain suit!

Up next is Rounds 1 & 2 of the Great Lakes Sprint Series at Lorain Ohio KartPlex
and then Rounds 3 & 4 of RMC Americas in the ROTAX Max Jr class!

05/12/2026

Another great day of racing for Round 2 of the 2026 Quaker City Karting Series, with 110 drivers entered. I competed in the ROTAX Junior class.

I struggled during warmups and qualifying in wet conditions, coming out 7th out of 10 drivers, but made up for it during the pre final by making moves early on a dry track to work my way to 3rd. In the last few turns of the final lap I made the pass for 2nd but made contact and got a penalty, which placed me 5th going into the final.

In the final I gained two positions at the start and made two more passes in the remaining laps to get the win.

Happy to share the podium with PF Racing (great pace all day, especially in the rain) and Colin (great P7 to P3 run in the final)!

Thanks to my parents and my season long partners for supporting me and making it possible for me to go racing:

JW Didado Electric
Herc Rentals
RoadSafe Traffic Systems
Twisted Tomato Pizzeria
Ray's Indoor Bike Park
Campbell Automotive and Recreational Services

Thanks to Pro Kart Concepts for being there to make sure my kart is always ready by race day!

Next up is the first round of the Apex Karting Championships Midwest series at New Castle Motorsports Park and my first LO206 race of the season!

05/09/2026

Giovanni Blackerby is your unofficial Junior Max Round 2 winner!

04/28/2026

Great start to the 2026 Quaker City Karting Series. The park was packed with over 100 drivers, even though it rained hard all morning and the night before.

This year I am racing in the ROTAX Max Junior class, and the first round was my first race in the ROTAX at Quaker City. I was 2nd fastest in warmups on a wet track, but made the wrong choice of tires for qualifying and fell to 4th.

In the pre final, I was able to make moves early to take the lead and pull away to finish 1st. In the final I got a great start, led every lap, finished 1st, and broke the ROTAX Junior track record in the process.

A big thank you to Sloan Product (the go to place for auto detailing and restoration!)
for supporting the first race of the season.

Thank you to my partners for their season-long support:

JW Didado Electric
Herc Rentals
RoadSafe Traffic Systems
Campbell Automotive and Recreational Services
Twisted Tomato Pizzeria
Ray's Indoor Bike Park

Thanks to my parents for all the work they do to make sure I have the opportunity to race and to Deegan and his parents for their hospitality.

Finally, congratulations to my friends PF Racing (and fellow Sloan Product driver!) and Griffin Vukich for sharing the podium with me!

04/26/2026

04/21/2026

Great weekend practicing at New Castle Motorsports Park and riding along with & at the Akron Sports Car Club autocross event.

04/20/2026

Excited for the first race day of the season at Quaker City Karting this weekend!

04/15/2026

Last week we taught the first of the 2026 Competition University training camps.

Lots of laps
Lots of great people

04/11/2026

Great coaching from Oliver Hodgson Racing in the Apex Karting Academy at Lorain Ohio KartPlex. The improvements were noticeable after two days of instruction from him and from conversation with Jade Goodwin Racing. Can't wait to connect again at this year's RMC events!

I was glad I got to spend time with friends, racing in the ROTAX with Kevin Kerl and watching Gavin and Jenson improve in LO206.

Thank you to my parents for allowing me to attend the academy and covering the cost, and to my grandpa for letting us sleep at his house.