Getting started
Getting started in karting
Costs, age and height limits, and the route from a first session to racing.
- Typical price from
- £40
- Price range
- £10 to £72
- Usual adult minimum age
- 13
- Junior sessions from age
- 4
Guides
Age and height limits at UK karting tracks
How minimum ages, heights and weights vary across UK hire karting tracks, and what junior and cadet sessions usually mean.
How much does go-karting cost in the UK?
What UK hire karting costs in our price-from data: the range, the median, and how prices differ by region and between indoor and outdoor tracks.
Karting clubs and championships in the UK
How to move from hire karting to racing in the UK - hire-kart leagues, owner-driver clubs, the Motorsport UK licence and the ARKS test.
More guides: all our guides, grouped by first session, day out, racing and kit.
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Find a track near you
Prices, age limits and what to expect, checked against each venue.