Is It Cheating If You Teach Your Kart To Fly Like This?
Looks like a race in Canada went full Mario Kart over the weekend—not only does one kart leap straight over a competitor, it sticks the landing and keeps cruising!
10-Year-Old Karter Leaves Orbit, Friends Discuss
Mini-Rok racing karts can hit 70 m.p.h, pull three mechanical gs in corners, accelerate like a cat that fell in a bathtub, and stop like the Radical Vertical Impact Simulator in Spies Like Us. They're stupid crazy Wile E. Coyote Acme Rocket fast. And they're typically driven by ten-year-olds. And sometimes they flip.
$2 Million Bugatti Driver Crashes On Kart Course
"It's funny I can drive a 6k kart through that corner and this fool can't drive a 2 million dollar car through it."
1969 McLaren Can-Am Car, Yours For $12,500
One catch — it's half the size of the original.
The Best Rotary-powered Vehicles You Can Buy, Plus a 40 hp Wankel-engined Chainsaw
Felix Wankel's rotary engine has been fascinating gearheads for decades. Even so, Wankels' engine has been generating more than its share of press recently, with some news sources speculating that the engine will be making a return as a compact range-extending generator in future plug-in hybrids from Audi and Mazda,…
Huge Drivable Lego Go-Kart Ups Pushes Global Awesome Index To New Highs
We've all seen Lego Mindstorms kits, right? Those advanced Lego kits with little motors and linkages and a little computer brain box? Sure, you know them. Usually, they're used to make little robots or table-top Rubik's cube solving machines or possibly advanced, immobile, closet-occupying robots. Normally they're…
A Nine-Year-Old Karter Explains How Grip Works
Say hello to Curtis. He's nine. He races karts in Germany and he is going to explain how grip works in "Kart Kids," the newest short from Kippenberger.
Dirt Tracking Kart Upshifts At Full Oppo
Shifter karts on racing slicks are meant for tight, twisty, and certainly paved tracks. One hoon we know from dirt tracking a Camaro took some karts offroad with spectacular results.
How to kart
The folks at Fast Lane Daily take a pair of karts to Monticello to experience a cheap introduction to the racing world. It's also a good excuse to wear a helmet with your name on it.
If God Had Meant Man To Flush On The Road...
...we would have been given toilet karts. Oh, wait — we were given toilet karts. A whopping 6.5 hp, 32 mph, twin-throne action, and all the TP you can stand. Ain't America great?
This Is How To Finish A Race In Style
Racer Kyle Prokup gets way loose in the final turn of this kart race but saves it with a brilliant backwards roll across the finish line. This is how it's done, friends.
Lewis Hamilton: Child Prodigy Turned F1 Star
As a child, we mean, more of a child than he is now, well before being a superstar of the racetrack, Lewis Hamilton was already in the limelight. The McLaren-Mercedes driver may be the biggest thing to happen for British F1 fans since Damon Hill claimed the championship 12 years ago, but how has the 23-year-old become…
Michael Schumacher's Son Competes In First Race
Despite a recent crash, Michael Schumacher's new motorcycle racing career has shown that he really has a natural talent for going fast, no matter what the vehicle. Of course, nobody doubts that the seven-time Formula One champion has skill. The question is whether that talent runs in the Schumacher DNA. Sure, brother…
