Karting

Recently the Too Fast crew have entered several Iron Man races at Buckmore Park, Kent, on their 80mph Thunder Karts :-)

The event starts with a 45 min briefing explaining the rules for the event, then you pick up your one-piece suit, gloves, helmet and rib guard and go out for about 5 minutes timed practice to decide your grid position.

After 5 frantic minutes of practice, going as fast as is humanly possible, wondering if you qualified for the front row or not, it comes as a blow to find yourself in 23rd place. All karts carry a transponder, so they know exacly how fast you are going, you wonder just how fast have you got to go to be on pole? Plus your forearms are killing you after just 5 minutes, how will you survive an hour?

You line up on the grid in twos, the front row looks a long way away, standing start, green light on and away, I get past a few at the first fast right-hander, then 36 karts arrive at the hairpin, I am diving up the inside of a group of 10, with 6 more trying to go up my inside, it's chaos, bumping sliding machines everywhere, somehow we all get through.

A one Hour race is quite a marathon, and you start to understand why its called the Iron Man, but it does give you plenty of time to overtake people and at the end of the race I get 12th place.

The Too Fast crew recommend Buckmore Park, its well organised, with a high standard of racing, and considering they are hire karts, a good standard of karts and with 36 on the grid for a 1 hour race, you will get all the action you can handle. Get your hands on the Thunderkart and enjoy :-)

Too Fast For You.com Rating
Adrenalin 6 out of 10 - 36 Thunderkarts on a 1.2km track in the dark need I say more?

Injury Factor: 1 out of 10 - stick to well organised events

Expense Factor: 4 out of 10 - very good value, but not cheap thrills

You could be the next Schumacker, if you could only get your hands on that F1 Ferrari