Not going to happen at Sears. It is a serious karting facility, not for ****ing around on with a car. Maybe at some of the more rural tracks (when they are not looking).

Why not drive a kart on the kart track... way more fun... cars don't give you nearly as much feedback. my spec miata is a luxury ride compared to my kart... and it's very responsive for a car... street cars are horribly slow to react and quite vague once you kart...

$500 for 20 half-day pass at Sears... if u do it a la carte I think it's $40 for half day, $60 for a day? prices went up this year...

 

Kyle it's not about how wide the tracks are, it's how tight of a radius some of the turns are. They are almost too tight for a TAG kart. If you were in a car going any kind of speed you would push right off into the grass.

 

^^not to mention at Sears you would go into a fence, or into a tire barrier. I'm sure they'd be pissed off at you if you wrecked their facility.

 

You know Dixon is so small they did not have Shifter kart races for years. They kept it to TAG and cadets but finally after re paving it and widening it a bit, they finally started having shifter kart races there. That should give you some idea how the track actually is. If they didn't allow shifter karts, It might well be impossible to get a car out there.

 

^ yeah. But the tightest turn at Davis can easily be made with a car, especially if you kick it sideways. thats what makes AUTOX fun, if you dont line up for some turns correctly you will go into the cones, no matter what your speed, thats purely the steering radius' duty.

google says its 50+ feet diameter for the tightest turn, and the cars on the parking lot look awfully small when you compare them to the turns.

 

ok go try it

guarantee you a kart would be more fun

 

keep in mind that the typical turning radius on a passenger car is about 35 feet.

so basically you're almost at steering lock.

 

WRC drivers are ****ing INFINITELY better than any pro drivers I know, have ever met, or will probably ever meet. Also, their cars are so damn technologically advanced and capable that you can't even compare a WRC driver doing 75mph through a tight asphalt section to a regular person doing the same thing in a street car. It's not even close.

I mean, forget the car, Any WRC champion would so damn good at driving that it'd make most pro circuit racers look like me trying to race in a go kart (cause I SUCK in a go kart!).

 

My WRC comparison didnt say you had to be the best of the best, i was just saying anything is possible. You cant tell me that that Davis track, or any of the others are TIGHTER than an AutoX!

all an autoX is, is a replica of the first stage of a rally when they parade thru tight cobblestone streets sliding around fountains and old european ladies cooking tomatoes haha

i know karting is a blast, but nobody wants to try a kart track in a car?

AutoX would be way more fun in a cart, yet we choose to drive our cars on them. The reason we do that is your answer.

Same with a track day, despite the fact that you have to be insane to kart a track at full speed, we do it in our cars to see what they can do.

now if karts were our daily driver with turn signals and street legal, it would be a different story.

 

I've driven quite a few cars and the infineon kart track. It's is not fun. you can't carry any speed and there is not enough distance between turns to build any speed. Trust me, in theory it looks fun but it isn't. Drive karts on kart tracks, drive cars on race tracks and shopping carts in parking lots. Don't try to mix it around. (except karts on big tracks)

 

thats the thing, my RS doesnt build speed! lol maintaining momentum is more valuable than any HP, but then the straight comes and the higher power car passes you...
Its hard to take your advice, because i know you live for the open track which i totally understand, but if there was an $80 kart track day, i would be all over it.

Thats why i love the roads i drive. My favorites are between 30-60 mph with constant turning, super tight, no room for error etc.

Id just like to try it when there are no deer in my path!

 

You should actually go to Davis and Dixon kart track. Each track has two incredibly tight turns that you can't really see from google maps.

Gagan, haven't they done some kind of cross over before? At least I know Valentino Rossi has done some Rally and Formula 1 Wasn't to shabby at them either...

 

It'd be cool to organize something instead of soley a BBQ