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Kart racing or karting is a motorsport discipline using open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on full-size motorsport circuits. Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motorsports.
A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of small sports car, close wheeled car, open-wheel car or quadracycle. Go-karts come in all shapes and forms, from non-motorised models to high-performance racing karts. Karting is a type of racing in which a compact four-wheel unit called a go-kart is used.
Young boy in a billy cart outside a Queenslander home at Indooroopilly, Brisbane ca. 1910. The first references to billy carts appear in the 1880s, with the term identified as originating from wooden carts pulled by billygoats, with these carts being a commonplace occurrence throughout Australia prior to the emergence of the automobile.
Power Drift featured go-kart racing in 1988, [6] but Super Mario Kart (1992) is cited to have popularized the kart racing genre, being the first kart racing game to implement combat elements within races. [7] The game was also slower than other racing games of the time due to hardware limitations, prompting its developers to use a go-kart theme.
The Rotax Max 125 Engine is a two-stroke 125 cc (7.6 cu in) engine designed by Rotax, part of Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), to provide cost-effective but high speed kart racing. Built in Austria, the engine is liquid cooled, equipped with a balance shaft, integrated water pump, electric starter and centrifugal clutch.
KZ is a kart racing class for drivers aged 15 and over, sanctioned by the CIK-FIA.KZ is the primary gearbox class in FIA championships.. The class was originally called Formula C (FC), first introduced in 1974 at the European Championship as the first gearbox class in international kart racing.
Riding a go-kart. Off-road go-karting uses a four-wheeled powered vehicle designed for off-road usage. This is opposed to the longer established activities of racing go-karts used for racing on a paved road circuit. Off-road go-karting is now a well-established and popular activity with a burgeoning range of vehicles, options, and adherents.
Kart or KART or Go-kart or similar may refer to: Go-kart, a type of small four-wheeled vehicle, motorized or not; Kart racing, a variant of open-wheel motorsport with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts; KART (AM), a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Jerome, Idaho, United States; Kart’, a town in Armenia; Kart, Iran, a village ...