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Dyer Racing Team The Grandsons of Gary Dyer have started their racing careers. Cody Dyer & Hunter Dyer started racing Go-Karts Indoors at Chicago Indoor Racing in Buffalo Grove in 2004. Both boys have competed each year in Jr. Racing Leagues at CIR and also in Team Endurance Races. Both boys have lots of race wins and the trophies to prove it.
2011 will be the fifth season for Dyer Racing. Cody is in the last year of Juniors and we have acquired a Merlin MR30 for him to race in. Hunter moves up to the Junior Ranks and into the MR29 to take advantage of his low weight. Yamaha engines to be supplied by Adkins and Cook.
2010 is the fourth season for the Dyer Kart Racing Team. Cody is now racing in the Junior ranks and Hunter is in his final year of Sportsman. The team has acquired a Merlin MR29 and Birel R30 for Cody and Hunter has moved into the AR28Z which finished 6th at Nationals with Cody driving.
2009 marks their third season racing outdoors at Concept Haulers Motor Speedway in Norway, Illinois as well as their second season traveling with WKA and regional touring series around the Midwest.
With Gary Dyer as Chief Mechanic and Bill Dyer as Engineer on the team, things look bright.
Dyer Racing has picked Birel Karts from Italy as their chassis of choice and Yamaha 2 Stroke Engines prepared by Kyle Adkins of Adkins Speed Center in Port Washington, Ohio and HPV 2 Stroke Engines prepared by Marc Zartarian of High Rev Engineering in Carlsbad, California for their power plants. Dyer Racing purchases their chassis parts Concept Haulers Motor Speedway (Les and Diane Finke).
For 2009, Dyer Racing has moved to Simpson Helmets that have been custom painted by Chad Barr of Colorsbybarr.com. Dyer Racing will run a Birel AM-29 and AR-28CY for Cody and a AR28Z for Hunter. Cody is moving up to the Junior Class (12-15 yr olds) while Hunter will continue in the Sportsman Class (8-12 yr olds). Here's a link to Cody racing indoors at CIR. It's a large 40MB file that you would need to download to view. Racing plans include competing in 3 WKA Manufacturer's Cup national events and participating in 3 Midwest Touring Series (Midwest Sprint Series, Route 66 Sprint Series and Great Lakes Sprint Series).
2008 Season Results July 2008 After spending much of the early summer traveling to tracks such as MRP in South Bend and New Castle near Indianapolis, the Dyer Racing team entered the WKA ManCup National event at Norway. Forty of the top HPV Junior Sportsman Drivers came to Sheridan, IL from as far as Texas, Florida, Canada and New Jersey to take a shot at the title. Cody qualified a respectable 16th out of the 40 entries and with some extra help from the Birel Factory Support Team and from legendary engine builder Marc Zartarian from High Rev Engineering (who flew in from Carlsbad, California for the event), he set his sights on moving up to the front. The prefinal saw Cody passing 5 drivers and making it just out of the top 10. In the final, Cody made a daring inside pass in the first turn and made it past some early contact up front. He came through the first lap in 8th position and quickly marched up to 5th spot. He held that spot until a late pass by a factory driver knock him out of a top 5 finish. Here's a link to the ManCup results page 2008 WKA ManCup Nationals @ Norway Results April 2008 After winning his first two events at Norway, Cody Dyer and his brother Hunter Dyer entered the Route 66 Touring Race at Norway. Both boys won their respective classes making Cody a two time winner of the Yamaha Jr. Sportsman Race despite qualifying 9th. Hunter Dyer swept the Yamaha Rookie Program.
Here's the link to the official race report 2008 Route 66 Touring Race Report May 2008
With a open weekend, Dyer racing decided to head over to MRP in South Bend, Indiana for a club race. This was our first time at the track. Little did we know that the local Fox TV station would be on hand to tape the Yamaha Jr. Sportsman Races. Cody qualified 6th and worked his way up to third in the final before contact while passing the second place kart ended his chance at the victory. Hunter ran in the same class and got some valuable seat time.
Cody's daring 3 wide pass down the front straight in the feature made the highlight video. Check out the link below. Fox 28 News (South Bend, Indiana) Kart Racing Report
2007 Season Review The Dyer Racing Team has made a lot of progress in their first full season of outdoor racing. Cody entered 12 races at Norway as a rookie in 2007. Cody has 3 wins in those 12 finals and 8 feature podiums. Cody has 18 pre-final podiums out of 23. Cody finished 2nd in points despite missing 3 points races.
Hunter has progressed from Rookie Class to Jr. Sportsman and has led a race this season before being taken out on the last lap (not by his brother).
Cody now owns the Yam Jr. Sportsman track record at Norway. Cody ran a 52.899 on 9/22/07 with his AR28X beating his old record of 53.008 on 7/21/07 using MG SLE Tires. The old record was 53.25 with MG Yellows. Cody also ran his personal best of 52.758 in a prefinal on 9/29/07 with his AR28X. Cody also owns the record for having his engine teched 3 different times during the season to check for illegal parts. His Adkins Yamaha engines have passed each time with flying colors. Hats off to Adkins Speed Center for fast, reliable, legal engines they provided to Dyer Racing in 2007 and 2008.
Route 66 Touring Event at Norway 7/28/07 Cody & Hunter entered the Route 66 Event at Norway. At open practice, Cody got some test time in on new Bridgestone YHC, which he hasn't run with his Birels. After some chassis adjustments, the team was ready for the main event. On Saturday, Hunter ran his personal best time in practice clocking a 53.9 run, while Cody made some laps near his track record time from the previous week. With 3 of the top 5 driver in WKA as well as the Route 66 Points leader competing in the Yam Jr. Sportsman Class, Cody picked it up in Qualifying. He set a new track record of 52.838 and a gap of .315 seconds over the second qualifier. Hunter meanwhile ran a respectible 54.2, qualifying him 18th overall. In the prefinal, Cody dropped in behind the #2 Qualifier at the start of the race. On the first lap, Cody passes the leader and pulls away from the field to win by over 2 seconds. Hunter gets tangled up in a first turn accident that happended in front of him and finished 21st. In the final, Cody again lets the #2 Qualifier set the pace and after getting his tires up to temp, passes the leader 3 laps into the event and pulls away again for a big win. Cody sets fast time of the feature with a 53.105 under the lights. Hunter again gets tangled in a first turn incident in front of him and finishes 16th overall. Here's a link to the official event report. 2007 Route 66 Race Report - Norway | ||
