3 tracks in Greater Manchester run stag and hen events. Karting works for these groups because everyone can do it and nobody needs to be good at it.
Manchester
Chaos Karts in Manchester is not a conventional kart circuit and does not compare to one. There is no fixed layout, no lap record and no tarmac. Electric karts run inside a projection-mapped hall, with tracks and themed worlds beamed onto the floor and walls, and augmented reality weapons and power-ups you use against the other drivers.
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Manchester
TeamSport Manchester Trafford Park is an indoor karting track on Wharfside Way in the Trafford Park industrial area, west of Manchester city centre. The 450 m circuit runs over more than one level, with twelve corners and a flyover section.
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Wigan, Greater Manchester
Three Sisters is a multi-use outdoor motorsport circuit on Three Sisters Road at Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan. Alongside karting it hosts car and motorcycle track days, drift events and driver training.
The thing that catches groups out. Below the minimum you either pay for absent drivers or book an open session instead.
Blackpool, Lancashire
Formulakart is an outdoor hire-kart circuit on Queen's Promenade at North Shore, Blackpool, about a mile north of the Tower. The 750-metre concrete track sits in a bowl-shaped arena, averages 9 metres across and is edged with tyre barriers.
Colne, Lancashire
Prestige Go Karting is an indoor kart track at Holker Mill on Holker Street, off Burnley Road in Colne, east Lancashire. The same site has a laser battle arena.
Liverpool, Merseyside
TeamSport Liverpool is on Sefton Street in Liverpool. It has two indoor circuits: a 475-metre multi-level main track with 10 corners and a separate 275-metre Starter track, and members can race a 725-metre International layout that joins the two.
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Preston, Lancashire
TeamSport Preston is at the Walton Summit Centre in Bamber Bridge, on the southern edge of Preston. The main circuit is 500 m long and spread over three floors, with twelve corners.
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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.