Karting at its true level: the county's national room is at North Liberty — and Granger's own name in the national rankings is Chad Hartzell

2013–2014 documented · Michiana Raceway Park, North Liberty (boundary), and a Granger hometown (this ground)

The county's national room: it exists, and it is not in Granger. Michiana Raceway Park — later JET Karting at Michiana — at North Liberty, Indiana, south of South Bend, owned in this era by Garry Lobaugh, was one of the country's top sprint-kart facilities: it hosted the World Karting Association's Manufacturers Cup Grand Nationals in June 2013 (the fifth straight year it held a WKA Manufacturers Cup national, and the eighth national at the South Bend-area track in nine years) and again on 27–29 June 2014, alongside WKA Gold Cup nationals, the Route 66 Sprint Series, the United States Pro Kart Series and the Rotax programme. That is the national room at its true size: a WKA Grand National venue in St. Joseph County, seated at North Liberty, outside the Granger line. (The state's other national karting room, New Castle Motorsports Park in Henry County, is not this county's and is not claimed.)

The local beginning the record holds — a Granger name: karting's Granger entry is a driver, not a track. Chad Hartzell, whose hometown the record prints as Granger, Indiana (born 23 January 1973), finished second in the entire United States Rotax Max driver rankings for Masters Max in the 2013 final standings — 5,523 points across ten races in the Jet Karting programme, nine points-scale places behind no one but the national leader — and was the 2013 Masters Max champion at Jet Karting at Michiana Raceway Park itself, with six wins, in his fifteenth year of karting, on a Birel R32 with MRP Motorsport support; his stated favourite track was Michiana Raceway Park, and his stated plan for 2014 was a non-wing mini sprint at Plymouth Speedway. The tie is printed at exactly its strength: "hometown: Granger, Indiana" in the national ranking's own driver record — a hometown claim of the karting press, not a verified CDP address, and no stronger claim is made. No kart track stands or stood inside the CDP in any directory searched; the "Granger Raceway" that appears in racing results is a radio-control car track in Granger, a different sport at a different scale, and it is named here only so no reader mistakes it for a kart course. Sited honestly, karting for this ground is: a national-room track fifteen minutes south, and one Granger hometown driver who finished a season as the second-ranked Masters Max karter in the United States.

Sources:

1. eKartingNews, WKA Manufacturers Cup and Gold Cup coverage, May–June 2013 and May 2014 (Michiana Raceway Park / JET Karting, North Liberty; Garry Lobaugh, owner; the Grand Nationals' run of years); eKartingNews, "United States Rotax Driver Rankings — 2013 Final Standings, Masters Max," 27 February 2014 (Hartzell's hometown, points, championship, chassis, sponsors and 2014 plans, as quoted); LiveRC Michigan State Championship report (Granger Raceway as an R/C facility), for the dispelling only.