go-kart
Sign in to saveAlso known as go-cart, kart, go kart, go cart
thumb|A driver with a 2008 Kosmic TS28 on the grid at KartSport Mt Wellington, New Zealand thumb|right|Soap Box Derby at a community celebration in Minnesota thumb|Indoor kart rental thumb|Go-kart on a track in Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa, [[Japan]] thumb|A two-seater rental A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of small four-wheeled vehicle, often an open-wheel car or a quadricycle. Go-karts come in many shapes and forms, from non-motorised models to high-performance racing karts and electric-powered models.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Predecessors
- Components
- Chassis
- Engines
- Transmission
- Tires
- Data acquisition
- Uses
- Racing
- Recreational, concession, and indoor karts
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A driver with a 2008 Kosmic TS28 on the grid at KartSport Mt Wellington, New Zealand thumb|right|Soap Box Derby at a community celebration in Minnesota thumb|Indoor kart rental thumb|Go-kart on a track in Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa, [[Japan]] thumb|A two-seater rental A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of small four-wheeled vehicle, often an open-wheel car or a quadricycle. Go-karts come in many shapes and forms, from non-motorised models to high-performance racing karts and electric-powered models.
Art Ingels created the first motorised go-kart in Los Angeles in 1956.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “go-kart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.