Go Carts?

[cyberdiamond]

Well since being over here on a working holiday I am really missing driving (track days in particular) and thought go carts may be the next best thing!

 

Anyone have any recomendations where there may be any tracks within public transport distance from London?

Cheers

[Doughie]

Er yeah i've done karts for about 8years. (not the last 2 though due to being a bit beaten up).

 

Indoors : 'The Raceway' used to be a fave place about 3 yrs ago. It's about 4 minutes walk from Kings Cross tube/train station. Up York road.

I presume they're still going. They did a track revamp about 2 or 3 yrs ago and i didn't approve of it (they made it less technical in my opinion) and so didn't really go there again. I've done maybe 20 or 30 endurance races there - 3hours continuous for an endurance race.

Ahh!! just checked and here's their site:

http://www.theraceway.net

 

Also there's an indoor place in Streatham, South London (all these tracks seem to be in dodgy areas!) which is run by playscape.

info :

http://www.playscape.co.uk/karting/Streatham.html

 

Dayona run a track in somewhere in West london. didn't like that track much though - too mickey mouse.

Far better is Daytona International up in Milton Keynes. ou can get a train to Milton Keynes and then a taxi to the track.

it's a good track, quite varied, you can do sprint or endurance in pro-karts (twin-engined, 4-stroke, 2x5.5bhp) or in Thunderkarts (single-engined, about 390cc 4-stroke). Choose Thunderkarts if you can cos the pro-karts are like driving a truck and are horrible in the rain. Massive turn-in understeer. not nice, not fun. But generally DAytona International is good fun.

 

if you want proper karting, then 2-stroke karts are the only way to go.

For this THE place is Club100.

http://www.club100.co.uk

Call them, ask for Jon Vigor and say Stuart gave you the recommendation and tell him i want an old-busted-up-man's discount when i next race !

 

club100 run sprint and endurance 2-stroke kart races outdoors all over the uk with a bias towards southern circuits. most circuits you're gonna need a car to get there. you can do a test day to get some practice in too. (you'll need it if you haven't done a 2-stroke before. light at 75kg per kart, no clutch, no starter, no gearbox, direct-drive, PROPER throttle response, spin it and you stall it.

 

that should keep you going

cheers

[cyberdiamond]

Thanks for the great listing

Now off to visit the web sites and try and cure this need for adrenalin.