In Offset chassis, the driver sits on the left side.Straight chassis are used for sprint racing. In Straight chassis, the driver sits in the center.Caged karts have a roll cage surrounding the driver they are mostly used on dirt tracks.All Commission Internationale de Karting–, Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile–, or CIK-FIA-approved chassis are "Straight" and "Open". Kart chassis are classified in the United States as "Open", "Caged", "Straight" or "Offset". There is no suspension, so chassis have to be flexible enough to work as a suspension and stiff enough not to break or give way on a turn. The chassis are made of chrome moly tubing. Later, in the 1960s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy ( IAME), started to build engines for the sport. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10, was an adapted chainsaw two-stroke engine. In 1959, McCulloch was the first company to produce engines for karts. The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. Instantly popular, Karting rapidly spread to other countries, and currently has a large following in Europe. Early karting events were held in the Rose Bowl Stadium car park.
A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956. Kart racing in Berlin, East Germany, 1963Īmerican Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. Karts vary widely in speed, and some (known as superkarts) can reach speeds exceeding 160 kilometres per hour (100 mph), while recreational go-karts intended for the general public may be limited to lower speeds. Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motorsports, with most drivers of the Formula One-including Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Ayrton Senna, Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, and Fernando Alonso-having begun their careers in karting. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits, although some professional kart races are also held on full-size motorsport circuits. Kart racing or karting is a road racing variant of motorsport with open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts.
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