3 tracks in Highlands and Moray run grand prix events. The full race weekend in miniature: qualifying to set the grid, heats, then a final with a podium at the end.
Aviemore, Highlands and Moray
A 550-metre outdoor circuit at Aviemore with the Cairngorms as a backdrop, and one of the more interesting layouts in Scotland: six metres wide for overtaking, sweeping bends on positive camber, undulations, and a long straight down one side.
Golspie, Highlands and Moray
North of Scotland Kart Club runs the Little Ferry Circuit near Golspie in Sutherland, which the club describes as the most northerly kart track in Britain. The outdoor circuit is 998 metres long with six corners, including a corkscrew section.
Price not published
Elgin, Highlands and Moray
Smart Kart Raceway is an outdoor, floodlit karting track at Bogton Farm near Lhanbryde, just east of Elgin in Moray. The circuit is about 500m long, with a mix of sweeping bends, chicanes, long straights and tight hairpins.
Session price divided by minutes on track, calculated the same way everywhere. Group event pricing differs, so treat this as a guide to relative value.
The thing that catches groups out. Below the minimum you either pay for absent drivers or book an open session instead.
Dunfermline, Fife
Knockhill's karting track sits within the Knockhill motor racing circuit near Dunfermline in Fife. It is a 500m outdoor floodlit circuit with four corners and changes in elevation, open seven days a week throughout the year.
Dundee
TeamSport Dundee is an indoor electric kart track in the West Gourdie Industrial Estate on the western edge of Dundee, just off the A90 at the Myrekirk roundabout. The circuit is multi-level, with hairpins and short straights, and average laps of around 29 seconds.
Price not published
Clydebank, Glasgow and Lanarkshire
TeamSport Glasgow Clydebank is an indoor electric kart track on John Knox Street in Clydebank, west of Glasgow city centre. The 400-metre circuit is multi-level, with 10 corners and elevation changes between fast sections and tight hairpins.
Price not published
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
The Garage is a leisure complex on Grange Street in central Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, with an indoor electric kart track alongside bowling, golf simulators, bars and a nightclub.
Ask how many laps the final is. A 30-lap final is a proper race; a 10-lap one is a sprint with ceremony attached.
Six drivers is typical. Some formats need ten or more to fill a grid properly.
Some tracks run junior versions of the same format at the same price. Others set race events at 14 or 16 plus.
Printed results and a podium are what people remember. Live timing screens make the qualifying session matter.