Traditional karting can cost well over $250,000 per season when factoring in equipment, travel and technical support. FKL slashes that by over 90%, offering a full championship season from $4,000.
Ok how? Is there some sort of corporate backer eating the cost of highly subsidized seats that you can be chosen for if you are the 2nd coming of Senna?
Drivers are evaluated on key skills such as kart control, awareness, and consistency. Those who complete the Try-Out may be invited to join one of two championship categories: Regional or Pro.
Are they hoping to have enough full pay clients to afford some semi pay? Unclear how this works to me. The preseason pass says around 3500 and that appears to be 9 races. I guess 350 a day ish is doable given electric but how does practice etc fit in?
I played through it again last year to prep for watching the show. All the Fallouts are masterpieces, except maybe ‘76. But a wonderful series of games, big fan of almost anything Bethesda does.
I’m interested to see how it goes. They’re coming to G&J this year so we’ll see first hand what the championship is like.
I think there is an opening in the market for higher performance arrive and drive leagues (above and beyond current rental karts leagues) so we’ll see if this pans out
It does sound cool despite the f4 angle. If it is truly 300ish a day for arrive and drive performance electric and a good, well run race program, that could work for many.
I like the positive attitude here. I will concur with the majority. I am skeptical, but optimistic that there is something here. If it truly is that affordable, then it will hopefully grab a lot of entries and become quite popular.
I was involved on the front end with getting this group to Badger. We almost didn’t have them out our facility because what they could afford is less than what we normally charge for track rental. However, we viewed it as an opportunity to show our facility to local people not yet involved in karting, and hopefully bring them into the Badger Kart Club family,.
I assumed each event would bring local drivers, but it seems like maybe they want the same drivers at all events? I’m not sure to be honest as I’m no longer involved.
If you can get past the hype, hyperbole, road to F1/F1 and whatever, it looks like a good deal.
They’ve put down significant capital from the looks of it (60 karts?) so I hope it opens up new opportunities for people.
@Alan_Dove any input on how it’s going in the UK (aside from the newspapers)
FAT International is owned by Ferdi Porsche, of Porsche descent. It used to be a logistics company of some type that sponsored Porsche’s, I think it’s just a lifestyle brand now? Either way, there’s a lot of money there to subsidize things.
I’m hesitant to believe that this is as altruistic as they are presenting, but the names involved don’t have any reason to not be. When I first heard of it I had some alarms going off in my head, but I can’t really place why.
There’s a few of these programs out and around. I hear a lot about the Racing Prodigy program on iRacing, and that gives me the same weird feeling that this one does. Honestly I just feel like it sounds too good to be true and the rug is getting pulled out at any moment
