Go Karting

apatia77

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I've just been Go Karting for the first time (Team Sport - Go Karting Crawley) and it was so much fun. There were 12 of us and I managed to qualify 2nd and in the race I ended up 2nd as well, I beat many people that had done it before.

Well worth the money, one of the best experiences I have ever had :)
 
Crawley Team Sport is pretty good for an indoor track. Well worth spending the £20 for membership just to avoid the bloody briefing each time. What layout did you do - two floors or all three?

Come on the next OcUK Kart meet! :D
 
Need to find one of these go karting places when my nephew arrives from Canada in late Dec with his mum.

Been having a look around and need one close to Ilford essex but there are so many to choose from.

Anyone have any ideas as to which ones to go for??, it will only be me as an adult and hes 11 yrs old.
 
there's one near here (very close to the original OCUK) but it's expensive. Looking at their site it's currently 50 laps for £25. IIRC a typical lap is around 25-30 seconds. I remember a group of us going there a few years ago. I can't remember the exact price/laps we had but I remember it was a Saturday morning, I paid quite a bit and was out of the house less than 1 hour.

I went on holiday in Majorca and there was an outdoor one. That was fun and cheap. We went there 3-4 time but it was walking distance from the hotel.
 
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Outdoor karting is so much more fun than indoor. Indoor is usually just hairpin after hairpin and the occasional elevation change (our nearest indoor track, Dunstan, has what can only be described as a ramp) with few places to overtake. The outdoor tracks almost always have faster karts, flowing tracks, and you've got potential for stuff like this which can happen:

 
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I am getting very tempted to buy a Rotax max and do some days in it, at Whilton Mill to attend a test day its £30 for the whole day with your own Kart. A bargain when you consider a car track day is often 10X that.

Then may run in a Rotax max league
 
Regy53 said:
I am getting very tempted to buy a Rotax max and do some days in it, at Whilton Mill to attend a test day its £30 for the whole day with your own Kart. A bargain when you consider a car track day is often 10X that.

Then may run in a Rotax max league
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TKM mate, cheaper to buy and to run, plus easier to rebuild your engine when needed.. Also, carb is so much easier to work with..
 
I did karting in spain about 5 years ago, paid the guy £3 and was on the track for hours

My bottom hurt after but it was so worth it
 
Yes its lots of fun. I friend of mine let me have a go on his pro kart once. Which felt about 10x faster than the ones you get at these tracks. It was a 2-stroke angry wasp, that idled at 18k :D .... thing nearly killed me !! lost it in a corner.. So much fun.....
 
Regy53 said:
I am getting very tempted to buy a Rotax max and do some days in it, at Whilton Mill to attend a test day its £30 for the whole day with your own Kart. A bargain when you consider a car track day is often 10X that.

Then may run in a Rotax max league
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Bugger Rotax, if you're going to buy a kart, buy a shifter. That'll make your ******** tingle. :D
 
AmyS said:
Who is that? If he was wearing tights and did it in front of a group of 12 year old boys who would give Lewis Hamilton a run for his money then it was very similar :o
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e got chucked out of his kart at the last OcUK karting meet. Probably a ~30mph impact. Scary to see it happen, but funny as hell in retrospect. :p

InvaderGIR said:
Pffftt he got off lightly, he did a ninja roll and walked off! :p
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Haha, style it out man!
 
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