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