Jacob Drew is among today’s brightest up and coming kart racers. Jake started his kart racing career in 2006 at the age of six with impressive wins in his first year and the future continues  to look very bright for this hard working young driver.

Jake started racing karts at the end of the 2006 season at a few local kart tracks in Southern California, where he scored several wins at the club level. He progressed from there to racing karts primarily in the very competitive IKF Region 7 series during 2008.

In his first year of racing he won the club championship in kid karts at Willow Springs, as well as a victory in the regional championship series. The 2008 season was very successful for Jake as he became the youngest driver ever to reach expert status by winning both his divisions at the IKF Grandnationals. He won the Region 7 championship scoring victories in 5 of the final 6 events. Just as impressive was his 21 main event wins in 37 total races for the season.

In 2009 Jake competed in the IKF series and the highly competitive Los Angeles Kart Club, as well as the Gatorz Rotax series. He finished the season with numerous victories for two seconds and a third in the year-end point standings. 2009 was highlighted by earning pole position in the final for the Rotax Grandnationals held in Oklahoma before racing to a sixth place finish.

The 2010 season marked continued improvement and success, most notably after joining forces with the CRG kart brand midway through the season. From that point on he has been considered one of the top cadet drivers in the country. This was proven by his sixth place finish at the prestigious SuperNationals (Las Vegas), against an international field of 42 racers. In addition he ended the season with second in both divisions of the regional championship and claiming the title in both divisions at LAKC.

Jake looks forward to improving on his podium finishes at the 2011 GrandNationals in the upcoming season as they will be held at his “home” track, California Speedway in Fontana, where he has been extremely successful.

Jacob is a fifth grade student at Golden Hills Elementary School in Fullerton, CA and his biggest supporter is his Dad, Jeremy Drew, a seven-time GrandNational champion in karting. He also has continued support from Pitts Performance engines, RLV karting products, Douglas Wheel, and Ribtect.