Positive Kids Sports - Get Them Involved in Racing

If you want your kids to be involved in a sport that notguidelines on how to get started and what equipment
only they will love, but one that will teach them a lot ofto buy. Kids can start as early as age 5 and race until
good lessons in their young lives, then get themthey are 80 if they want. You will also find that karting
involved in racing. Not only does it build goodis a very affordable family sport. Everyone in the
sportsmanship, hand - eye coordination, communicationfamily can get involved and have fun together. Not
and thinking skills, but it also builds confidence as theyonly will it be fun for the family, but like our family, you
know that they will always get to play, they don't havewill make many great friends across the United States
to wait for the coach to put them in.while involved in karting. There are also many families
One of the best types of racing that you can startthat not only siblings race together but many dads and
your kids in (boys and girls alike) is karting. There ismoms race as well.
asphalt sprint karting, that is the type that most of yourWe have first hand experience is karting, my husband
NASCAR drivers got their starts in and then there israced for several years in the 70's and even was a
dirt kart racing which uses the karts with the roll cages,State Champion. Then when our son showed an
much like the yard karts, but built to compete in. In theinterest in racing at age 6, we started him racing in the
asphalt sprint karts there are several different types ofdirt karts and then moved up quickly into the asphalt
tracks involved. Most of your kart tracks will involvesprint karts. Kenny ran on the local and national levels
some sort of road course with curves and turns of allwhile karting and earned several championships and
sizes and shapes, and then there is just your roundalso got the honors of racing in the TAG World
and round tracks, much like the dirt kart tracks.Championships in New Castle Indiana in 2006.
Karting has become a very well known sport acrossKenny is now 19 and still races but has moved up to
the United States. There are many levels on which aanother level in racing. This past year Kenny moved
driver of all ages can compete, locally, and nationally.from the karts into the Mini Sprints, which is a scaled
Karting can also be seen on Speed Channel and youdown version of the Outlaw Sprint Cars that race on
can surf the web to visit many tracks nationwide.dirt. The mini sprints or some call them micro sprints run
The best way to get started in karting is to go onlinea 600cc motorcycle engine. Kenny's karting
and see if there are any local kart clubs in your areaexperience has helped him in this transition very much
or close by. Once you locate a kart club or track, goeven though it is a different type of racing. He had a
and visit it and talk to the racers and their familiesvery successful year racing with a local Mini Sprint
there. You will find that everyone associated withAssociation and a few events outside of the
racing will be more than glad to help you out byAssociations races. Kenny's next goal is to move into
answering all of your questions and giving youthe full size sprint cars within the next several years.