2 tracks in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire run stag and hen events. Karting works for these groups because everyone can do it and nobody needs to be good at it.
Aberdeen
Fastlane Indoor Raceways is an indoor kart track at the Broadfold Business Centre in Bridge of Don, on the northern side of Aberdeen, and describes itself as the city's only indoor karting venue. It runs walk-up sessions, children's birthday parties, company events and stag and hen groups.
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Inverurie, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
Lochter Activity Centre is a multi-activity site in rural Aberdeenshire near Oldmeldrum, north of Inverurie. Its outdoor kart track, called Lochterstone, is about 1.2 km long, which the operator says makes it the largest karting track in Aberdeenshire.
Price not published
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.
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.
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.
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Ten on track at a time is common. A group of twenty means splitting into heats, which changes the shape of the day and usually the price.
Qualifying, heats and a final gives you a winner and a podium. Open sessions blur into one another and nobody remembers who won.
Most race formats need six or more. Below that you are booking arrive and drive whether you meant to or not.
A bar or restaurant on site keeps the group together. Without one the day ends in a car park.