Go-Kart UK is not fun
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- VikingKingEleven0
Welcome to the era of no competition where everyone gets a trophy! Can't hurt anyones feelings, ya know?
My friends kids are in tee ball and he was telling me they don't keep score because they dont want winners or losers.
I read another story about a pee-wee football team (11-12yr olds) that bench the star player when he scores 3 touch downs because they said he could score on every play if he wanted.
- fugged0
Only been a few times, but had a ton of fun. Place I went to was indoor, which at first I wasn't all that excited about, but didn't bother me once I started racing.
Here's the track (I would advise muting the audio...)
- you can get quite a bit of contact before they start telling you to settle down.fugged
- genfourth0
how is that not fun and not go-karting?
I did something very similar here with a group of friends and it was grand prix style. 10 minutes of warming up and you get your lap times and then a 20 minute race. the print outs had every lap time, top speed, etc and the winners were based off of that. way more accurate then trying to line up every cart evenly (pretty much impossible logistically on a normal sized track) and trying to get a fair start with everyone
- actually it was 10 min warm up, 10 min qualifier, 10 min final race. wayyyyy fungenfourth
- moldero0
sounds like a track day, could be fun depending how impressive the carts were. but yeah, would be way more fun doing offensive/defensive cornering moves on your mates
- Horp0
I went to Arundel Castle this weekend. Its okay, but most of it was built in the 90's and the bloke dressed as a knight was just a fat local with a plastic sword. It cost £50 to get the whole family in too.
WTF?
Its like there's a leisure industry conspiracy afoot.
- Projectile0
Slightly off topic but in South Africa, I worked for a big pizza delivery chain, and once or twice a year the boss would give us free booze and let us loose on a go-kart track XD
It was fucking MAYHEM- 18-22 year old guys pissed of their heads, and let's not forget these are guys who drive for a living so lead feet all the way. I overtook 8 dudes but then got flagged for aggressive driving.
- Continuity0
I really messed up one of my ribs karting in Amsterdam three years ago, it was pretty much a free-for-all. Couldn't breathe properly for a week. Good times.
- mikotondria30
We have this place about half and hour away:
Massive rickety wooden track spirals right up into the air, and drops down. Awesome fun. Lungfuls of 2-stroke exhaust, carts set up so that you can just about lose it on some parts of the track.- that could be a shit-ton of fun, with better karts and no rules :)fugged
- Totally. It's an awesome track to ride, brilliantly noisy. You just about don't mind the sub-par vehicles.mikotondria3
- Gordy220
I remember doing this in Prague once; Health and Safety was so lax we were hammered, driving around with beers (cans) and even getting out the go-carts, jumping the barriers and dragging others out of there carts as they went round.
- sleepyfatso0
I went here before, it was fun...
http://www.daytona.co.uk/
- epill0
just tape a baseball card to your fixie and you and your mates can race like the pros
- i used to do that!! haha or a crushed can, that made an amazing sound!cruddlebub
- cruddlebub0
ive been karting loads and never have i heard them say that! thats gash! what a waste of money and time! bout 25 miles from where i live is an outdoor karting track and its awesome! bit scary if it all but spits a bit of rain at you though!
- Mulatu0
At a gokart track here a few years ago a girl got her long hair caught in the rear axle of the kart she was driving and got scalped.
- Projectile0
'elf an soyf'y mate. Ya moight get whiplash of sumfink an we aint gonna pay for da medical expenses and wot
Nanny sez no, basically
- maikel0
if things get unexciting there's always the chance of driving in the wrong direction. that will surely spice things up.
- ian0
Perhaps you need to find a better go kart track because that one sounds shite.