4 tracks in Buckinghamshire run birthday parties events. The single thing that decides whether this works is age and height, and it catches people out constantly.
Rooksley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Daytona Milton Keynes is on Dansteed Way at Rooksley, close to junction 14 of the M1 and about ten minutes by taxi from Milton Keynes Central. It is one of three Daytona circuits, alongside Sandown Park and Tamworth.
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Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Formula Fast is an indoor kart centre on the Bond Estate off Bond Avenue in Milton Keynes, with a wide circuit of more than 500 metres. It hosts the British Rental Kart Championship.
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Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Rogue Racing is the indoor kart track inside Rogue Leisure at The Point on Gatehouse Way, Aylesbury. The 350-metre circuit is laid out over two levels, and the building also has bowling, an escape room, an arcade and a bar.
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
TeamSport High Wycombe is inside the Eden Shopping Centre, on level 3 above Primark, so the track is inside a working shopping mall. The 500 m indoor circuit has thirteen corners over more than one level, including a large ramp.
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
Absolutely Karting Maidenhead is an indoor centre at The Arena on Stafferton Way, close to Maidenhead town centre. Its circuit is built over two levels: adults can drive the lower section alone or the full double-level layout, while younger drivers use the top track.
Burgess Hill, West Sussex
AR Kartz is an indoor electric karting centre on the Panattoni Park business estate at Goddards Green, on the western edge of Burgess Hill. The track is 350 metres long with 15 corners.
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Sittingbourne, Kent
BattleKart Sittingbourne is an indoor venue at Hooks Hole Farm on Chestnut Street, Borden, on the western edge of Sittingbourne. It combines electric karting with video-game style play: tracks and targets are projected onto the floor of a darkened hall.
Sittingbourne, Kent
An 1,100-metre floodlit asphalt circuit on a twelve-acre site behind the Eurolink Industrial Estate at Sittingbourne. It was designed and built by Gerry Lilley on what had been wasteland, opened in 1997, and is now run by his daughter: a genuinely family-run circuit rather than a chain venue.
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Always check both. The gap between a 1.20m and a 1.40m minimum is the difference between an eight-year-old driving and watching.
Purpose-built junior karts fit smaller drivers properly. Some tracks also fit remote speed limiters so staff can build a nervous child up gradually.
Children mixed in with adults have a worse time. Ask whether junior sessions run separately.
Food, a private room, a podium and a trophy make it a party. Without them it is a driving session with cake in the car.