If you have ever seen the Indy 500, you have seen open wheel racing, an exciting motor sport where racers achieve speeds faster than 230 miles per hour. Go kart racing is similar to open wheel racing competition, employing a speedy kart. Kart racing is often used like a stepping stone to the faster and more expensive ranks of auto racing where a large number of professional race drivers began.

When a large number of individuals imagine go carts, the image that comes to mind is customarily the sluggish karts found at amusement centers. The top speeds achieved at nearly all fun center go kart tracks are roughly 15 miles per hour, but various other types of karts will be able to attain speeds greater than 160 miles per hour.

Kart racing is regulated and permits children 8 years of age or more to race. As immature kids enhance their expertise in a regulated atmosphere, they have the option to move up to faster racing as they get more skilled.

Along with the assorted go kart racing leagues, Kid Karts go cart racing programs are provided for children 8 years of age or sometimes less. These courses can be continued through the age of 16 where teenagers may reach senior status. This can be a great place for young kids to get involved in racing in a safe and fun atmosphere.

There are actually quite a few different kinds of go kart racing such as speedway, sprint, and endurance, often called Enduro racing. Sprint racing takes place on short tracks that require both right and left turns. The race tracks normally differ in size from a quarter mile to one mile. A standard sprint kart race consists of preliminary races, also referred to as heats, that are only a handful of laps. The top several finishers of each heat will then advance to the championship race where the final winner will emerge.

Speedway races are just like certain Indy Car races, and take place on an oval track having all left turns. The basic variation is the size of the track, with go cart tracks being much shorter, normally between 1/6 of a mile and one-fourth of a mile. The go cart tracks are ordinarily asphalt or clay with a couple of straights and 4 left-handed turns.

However, some tracks may be non-ovals, such as triangular-shaped. Infrequently, the track can be dirt, which provides some fantastically thrilling racing. A special kart frame was manufactured for use on all-left-turn tracks that improve the handling of the go cart. In spite of this, using these "dirt track" kart frames won't be best when employed in other varieties of racing such as sprint.

As with sprint racing, speedway racing will typically have heat races to decide which racers drive in the final event. The qualification heats will typically be only a few laps in length while the final might be as many as 20 full laps. Endurance races last for a precise period of time, ordinarily from a half hour to 24 hours, and sometimes longer. For shorter-duration races a single driver for a racing kart might be all that is required. Nevertheless, for longer endurance races there are ordinarily more than one driver for each kart, who will switch off driving, permitting rest opportunities.