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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.
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.
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.
They explained, "the blinding speed of the game and the astonishing way that the track zooms up and down, side to side as you participate in the race of a lifetime can be described in no lesser term than fab". [17] Guinness World Records gave Power Drift the award for "First kart racing videogame" as it predated Super Mario Kart (1992). [18]
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.
SuperTuxKart, an example of a kart racing video game. Kart racing games have simplified driving mechanics while adding obstacles, unusual track designs and various action elements. [7] Kart racers are also known to cast characters known from various platform games or cartoon television series as the drivers of "wacky" vehicles. [8]
LittleBigPlanet Karting is a 2012 kart racing video game developed by United Front Games and San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is a spin-off of the LittleBigPlanet series, and the third LittleBigPlanet game to be released on the console. [2]