Captain Sherman F 'Red' Crise to be inducted posthumously into Go Kart Hall of Fame May 2026

The races were contested at Oakes Field (former Nassau Airport) on a track marked out using what looked like short hedge cuttings inserted into holes at the track edge. The meeting took place on December 5 and 6.

The feature race that year was held at night (actually it was in the wee hours of Sunday morning) and was won by Jimmie Yamane driving a twin McCulloch MC10 powered kart that he had self constructed.

Towards the end of 1960 Captain Crise organised a team of American karters to race in England at the Shenington circuit near Banbury, Oxfordshire, followed by a meeting in Italy at the Kart Pista Rossa near Milan. Those races plus a third meeting at Nassau were promoted as rounds of the 1960 World Karting Championship. Following the Nassau event Bobby Allen was crowned World Karting Champion driving a Fox Mak kart powered by dual McCulloch MC20s.

Crise’s adventure to Europe was notable in that his team of drivers introduced American karts and motors to another sizeable market. Crise’s Grand Prix Kart Club of America certainly promoted the USA group, outfitting team members with matching blazers and slacks as well as red, white and blue sleeveless racing jackets.

In early 1962, karting in the USA unfortunately took a downward turn which caused Captain Crise to give written notice of his decision to suspend all racing and organizational activities of the GPKC of America. No sanctions would be issued nor would insurance of any type be in effect. Captain Crise went on to say that, he, the President of the splendid Grand Prix Kart Club of America, would be directing all his future efforts into raising the finest Boxer dogs in the world, at his new kennels in Rancho del Toro Rojo, Florida.

Captain Sherman F "Red" Crise, was a Floridian entrepreneur, race car and karting promoter, sports car racer, and politician who organized the powerboat races from Miami to Nassau during the late fifties and the Nassau Speed weeks that lasted well into the sixties decade. Captain Crise died on May 3, 1991 aged 82.