2 tracks in Hampshire run stag and hen events. Karting works for these groups because everyone can do it and nobody needs to be good at it.
Farnborough, Hampshire
TeamSport Farnborough is an indoor electric kart track on Invincible Road in Farnborough, north-east Hampshire, a short drive from junction 4 of the M3. The circuit is 500 metres long, multi-level and has 12 corners.
Price not published
Eastleigh, Hampshire
TeamSport Southampton is at Barton Park on Chicken Hall Lane in Eastleigh, between the M3 and M27 north of Southampton. The indoor electric circuit is 500 metres long over more than one level, with nine corners mixing hairpins and faster bends.
Price not published
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.
Price not published
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.
Price not published
Albourne, West Sussex
Brighton Karting is an 800-metre outdoor tarmac circuit on London Road at Albourne, near Hassocks in Mid Sussex, about ten miles north of Brighton. The track is 7 metres wide and floodlit.
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.