How fast do karts go

Most karts max out around mph, while this is a maintained speed that is safe and as controlled as you can be. At LVGP ours max out at around 45mph. Costing thousands and a bunch of red tape. However, if you were to have a street legal kart you may have that speed considerably higher than what it would need for the indoor track.

At LVGP our track is designed to reach max speed 45mph for a only a few seconds before having to decelerate to make an easy turn.

If not, you hit your turn too fast and spin out, or will be pulled to the outside wall centrifugal force. Canadian made, this go-kart speed reach in 1. The top-most speed is of a superkart, reaching mph. However, karts possess different engines to compete in varied race categories. As such, the top speed of a kart is dependent on the race category they are involved with. But as a go-kart racer across many categories, I know a thing or two about how go-karting as we know it today started.

The man who is widely accepted as the father of go-karting is Art Ingles , an American hot rod racer and race car builder. The first kart he built was completed in the year , making the motorsport over 60 years old! To begin with, they were made with modified chainsaw engines the McCulloch MC, to be precise and later progressed to purpose-built variations since IAME was founded in Italy around the year Although the sport truly began in America, European audiences really embraced the sport, as you might expect of a motorsport-crazed continent just look at Italy!

They started to create varied race divisions after the birth of IAME, because they started to realize that racing a 50cc go-kart against a cc kart was hardly a fair fight.

So, race divisions were created for the varied displacements of 2-stroke engines ; favored choices of early kart racing days. Sometime in the late 80s or early 90s , however, the introduction of the 4-stroke karting engine brought about a whole other factor to set divisions by.

Today, we use 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines divided into their displacement amounts to set racing categories as a universal manner of splitting the divisions. This is due to the fact that cc karts cannot handle the torque that a cc 2-stroke engine puts out, and all karts in this displacement have to use 4-stroke engines. They provide the modern answer to greased lightning, and you don't have to be John Travolta to find the experience of revving one up as racy as Sandy Dee's makeover.

Yeah, yeah, you might be thinking, 'Sounds like go karts go pretty fast. And—we can hear the wheels in your mind turning—exactly how fast can a go kart, uhh, go?

Patience, young grasshopper. You are new to the world of outdoor go karting , but you will learn. We have great knowledge to share. Not to be cheeky, but can you think of any competitive motorsport—any at all—that takes place indoors?

Neither can we. The major drawback to indoor karts is that they don't handle like real racing machines. Our man on the track, Asdren Salija, tells us that due to the limited space in indoor karting centres, these karts don't reach very high speeds. Who wants to go slow? Most people race to let off steam and beat their mates or better yet, their boss! We offer real racing experiences on our Ace Karts outdoor track. It's metres of pure excitement, and it stays open in all conditions. If there's a bit of rain, you can simply grab a wet weather suit from the pits at the track we've even got professional-standard floodlights that allow you to race at night!

For those who love to go fast, there's no go kart track like our open-air baby. It has a series of intensifying bends to test the limits of your cornering skills and a track sensor system so we can deliver real racing stats. We guarantee the most authentic motorsport experience outside of the professional world; and if you race fast enough, you'll earn a place in our Ace Karts Hall of Fame.