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Here is a great interview with Chad Stoughton with Shockt.com U.S. Distributor of Blueshock Electric Race and Rental Karts.. Interview begins on 17:42 on video time counter.. Thanks For the great interview James and Chad was great to hear about Blueshock
Artis Blueshock owner and Chad from Shockt.com U.S. Distributor of Blueshock Race Karts. Brought there Rental and Full X5 Race Kart to K1 Speed Canton Track to visit us. And show us there new karts.. Anthony one of our top rental drivers got to drive a X5 Full Race Kart on K1 Speed Track and Chad owner of the X5 too. Which never happens.. Here is some video of Anthony’s lighting fast run. He and Chad Broke our outdoor track record.. Thanks to them so much for visiting us at K1 Speed Canton ( Grandson K1 Racer is in the slower Blueshock Rental kart )
Is there any Blueshock Kart owners on this forum. Or any people have run the Americankartingleague Championship in US ?? Or Run any of there karts.. Would love to hear of there experiences with the karts ?? Look at Videos below on post grandson got to do some pretty cool stuff !!!
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I was given the opportunity to drive one during a club race day at Atlanta Motorsports Park last fall when their mini traveling series thing was in town for the weekend. Overall I had fun with it, but there are a few points around the experience that are worth highlighting:
- They are HEAVY. And this is coming from someone who typically drives master shifter at 410+ lbs. We ran as a combined group of juniors and seniors without any minimum weight requirement so there was no additional ballast on the kart, and I’d reckon I was running at 420+ lbs easy. On one hand it seems rough from a competitive balance standpoint to not have a minimum weight, but on the other I think we’d be approaching issues with safety if they got any heavier, especially for junior drivers.
- We were running them with a relatively hard Vega Red tire compound. That combined with the weight meant there was quite a bit of slipping and sliding. I’m someone who enjoys being thrashed around and abused in a way that only comes from a soft tire, so this didn’t quite scratch that itch but it was still an interesting challenge wrangling that much weight with only so much grip available.
- It was rear brakes only, and with the weight and hard tire the main word that comes to mind is “sketchy.” It felt like trying to stop an outdoor rental kart that’s going twice as fast. I was able to more or less get used to it, but they definitely involve longer and more sustained braking than I’ve experienced before in a kart, and that whole time you’re just trying to modulate while feeling like you’re just not slowing down at all. Worth pointing out that they do offer a configuration with front brakes that also has a higher output motor which would probably feel a little more solid but that’s not what I drove.
- Obviously lots of torque on hand which is always fun. The throttle response (or rather accelerator response would be more accurate here?) felt a little funky - it was almost like the motor was just ever so slightly delayed from what I was expecting from my input on the pedal, and when you have that much torque with so little grip you want to be precise with your right foot and I always felt just slightly out of sync with the motor. I think there might be some mapping options available in the software, and either way it’s probably something I’d eventually get used to, but in one day I didn’t have the chance to get that deep into it.
- Maybe this is another obvious point but the lack of engine noise means you’re primarily treated to the sounds of wind, tires being tortured, and occasionally steel tubes grinding on asphalt. Once I got into the headspace where I was only focused on driving I didn’t even really think about it, but initially it was a slightly strange experience so still notable.
- Battery swaps and recharging seemed pretty straightforward. I’m not certain if I was on the same battery the whole day and they were just fast charging it between sessions or if they were swapping to a fresher battery after each run (I was still running my own kart and class that day so I wasn’t the one doing it, maybe they told me and I just forgot) but in all of our sessions I never noticed a drop in performance, granted we only ran maybe an 8 lap prefinal and 12 lap final. It did look like everyone there the day before was able to get plenty of seat time practicing so it seems to me like recharging and battery swapping isn’t a huge limitation.
In short, it was a fun experience even if it was VERY different from what I’m accustomed to. I’d be down to try one again, especially the higher output version with front brakes, though I’m not about to trade in my current kart for one anytime soon.
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Should try the X5 Kart with front brakes now . They are rocket ships compared to gas.. Reminds me of having 3 - Mac 10s on my sprint kart in the 70s. The torque and the amount it takes to get to speed is insane.. We got to run a X5 Race Kart on a K1 Speed Canton Ohio track.. Was very cool.. Video coming soon of that.. Here is my grandson running it in the parking lot of K1 Speed Canton .. Grandson also got to run there new rental kart on track too . Video of that too below. We were so excited to meet the owner of Blueshock Artis & Chad Shockt.com U.S. Distributor of Blueshock Karts we THANK THEM so much for going out of there way to come visit us at K1 Speed Canton Ohio..
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From Dream to Daytona Pretty Cool Story !!!
American E karting Championship Comin to M1 Concourse at Pontiac Michigan near Detroit.. August 1 - 2 2026 Go to Getshockt.com to find out more about the karts..
The pun/irony of the URL…..
I’ve heard of Zip karts, but these are apparently Zap karts.
(Which would be a GREAT company name for eKarts.)
“The driving experience - electrifying….the price, shocking!”
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That’s a TIGHT hairpin!
No, 20 ch@aracters 
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I don’t want to drive an e-kart and I don’t live in Europe. Yet at least.
My biggest issue with anything that the FIA does for karting is that it doesn’t seem to come from any demand from the customer base, aka us. It’s all just what the FIA thinks is good. I don’t see people clamoring for this. So why are they doing it?
Whatever someone wants to race is fine with me. Just like the big scary topics (politics, religion etc.), if you have facts and evidence that this is needed and you come with good intentions, I will listen and try to understand. If the FIA (or whoever) came out and said “listen, we know you love internal combustion engines, but honestly we cannot race them for much longer because of x, y, z, and if you want to continue karting we have to go this way,” I would at least understand the need and I could accept that.
In my eyes, the type of motor/engine we run is very low priority. If I were at the FIA, I would put things like the skyrocketing costs of karting, the poor promotion of international events to anyone not in Europe, the growing move toward “Formula 5” as Alan calls it, and more above e-karting in my priority list of things karting needs to work on.
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I’ve yet to find much information other that the very undetailed image and some post text… Is there more info I’m missing. Like, what was even approved?
As manufacturer, we have nothing on this. But the idea is not bad as beside chassis , engines (or as you want to call them) are supposed to be fixed and that is consistent with cost reduction..
YEAAAAAAA !!! They have finally accepted us who love EKARTS !!! Be glad to just excited !!!
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Heres more all I can find for now
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I would be interested in driving an electric kart to see what it is like, but I don’t see this being a net benefit.
What is the gain we see that is stronger than the increased weight (danger) and infrastructure (cost) that are going to be seen from implementing this. This feels like introducing solutions and trying to find the problem it solves afterward.