| If you want your kids to be involved in a sport that not | | | | guidelines on how to get started and what equipment |
| only they will love, but one that will teach them a lot of | | | | to buy. Kids can start as early as age 5 and race until |
| good lessons in their young lives, then get them | | | | they are 80 if they want. You will also find that karting |
| involved in racing. Not only does it build good | | | | is a very affordable family sport. Everyone in the |
| sportsmanship, hand - eye coordination, communication | | | | family can get involved and have fun together. Not |
| and thinking skills, but it also builds confidence as they | | | | only will it be fun for the family, but like our family, you |
| know that they will always get to play, they don't have | | | | will 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 start | | | | that not only siblings race together but many dads and |
| your kids in (boys and girls alike) is karting. There is | | | | moms race as well. |
| asphalt sprint karting, that is the type that most of your | | | | We have first hand experience is karting, my husband |
| NASCAR drivers got their starts in and then there is | | | | raced 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 the | | | | interest in racing at age 6, we started him racing in the |
| asphalt sprint karts there are several different types of | | | | dirt karts and then moved up quickly into the asphalt |
| tracks involved. Most of your kart tracks will involve | | | | sprint karts. Kenny ran on the local and national levels |
| some sort of road course with curves and turns of all | | | | while karting and earned several championships and |
| sizes and shapes, and then there is just your round | | | | also 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 across | | | | Kenny is now 19 and still races but has moved up to |
| the United States. There are many levels on which a | | | | another 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 you | | | | down 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 online | | | | a 600cc motorcycle engine. Kenny's karting |
| and see if there are any local kart clubs in your area | | | | experience has helped him in this transition very much |
| or close by. Once you locate a kart club or track, go | | | | even though it is a different type of racing. He had a |
| and visit it and talk to the racers and their families | | | | very successful year racing with a local Mini Sprint |
| there. You will find that everyone associated with | | | | Association and a few events outside of the |
| racing will be more than glad to help you out by | | | | Associations races. Kenny's next goal is to move into |
| answering all of your questions and giving you | | | | the full size sprint cars within the next several years. |