@Bimodal_Rocket Stacker is correct. Go Karting World Gold Coast. Also known as Slideways Pimpama.
https://www.gokartingworld.com.au/slideways-go-karting-world-sprint-race-series/
Have you tried this yet?
And there’s a dirt track nearby too.
The sprint events are a part of their championship that I am hoping to join next year. My first sprint event will be the 22nd of September.
The dirt track that is operating is at Xtreme Karting, they also have a championship which I will be looking to do as well if I can afford it in the second year. Some guys who have entered both championships and done well in the same year have qualified for the Sodi world championship.
Okidoki. A very full schedule then. Looks like a ball.
Nice to start racing sooner rather than later. Once you feel like you can keep the kart under you reliably, go mix it up. You’ll learn a lot faster. If you end up doing dirt track, vids plz!
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I’ll be visiting the track at least once more before the weekend of the 22nd. Then on that weekend I have practice on the Friday, driver training Saturday and the race Sunday. If I enjoy it the next event is November I think, which is a feature event where the final is a 30min race vs the usual 10min race. The Slideways championship also includes two indoor drift tracks.
EDIT: I’ll try to get to the dirt track at some stage. Been trying to get my wife to come to Xtreme Karting to do either the dirt or bitumen track. But, she likes Go Karting World.
Looks like the other track does enduros regularly as well.
A rental track does enduros?
Yep. I mean endurance races. Typically 2-4 hr type things. Usually done as team. Wrong term maybe.
That I can understand, was just wondering.
Both tracks do 3 hour endurance events. Been trying to talk some mates into starting a race team to compete in them. One is keen, the other lives 9 hours drive away 
You’re good. This kind of confusion is exactly why KartPulse no longer calls laydown karts “enduro” karts. In a world of 24hr kart races it’s confusing to practically anyone getting into the sport.
We use laydown as it accurately portrays the kart and make the uniqueness and cool factor pretty clear up front.
From where I’m from enduros with rentals is very common. One of the (few 
) positives of 4-stroke engines is their durability, perfect for endurance karting.
If there’s a bunch of folks like you, I can’t believe that the administrators don’t have some sort of sign up thing to try to get the solos together for endurance races.
Might be worth asking about and setting up if the thought hadn’t occurred to them. They do have a fancy website.
Or just eyeball the rest and go make friends with the least crashy!
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It will definitely be something I pursue once I start to meet those in the Championship. Might even be a good opportunity to get a few new guys together to increase our experience.
If it ain’t broke… does she kart? There’s your enduro team!
She does enjoy the times we’ve gone karting. She doesn’t seem that interested in joining the championship, but, maybe she’ll have a blast at an enduro event. Her first time going she was doing 58second laps, she has got that down to 45second. I’m pretty proud of how well she is doing.
@Matthijs_Hofman Rather than continuing my hijack of the other thread re taking hairpins, I though I’d continue the discussion here.
The track I will mostly be racing on is a full time rental track and I will be in a rental kart.
The two corners I feel I am loosing most time on are these two:
I fell that if I can get these two right the following corners will flow a lot better.
Direction? 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. They do run it both ways, but, mostly clockwise, which is what I am focusing on to start with.
It’s so hard to just look at a track and choose your lines. Add to that, it’s been a long time since I sat in a kart, so take this with a grain of salt. The secret to that big sweeper, in my opinion, is the right-hander before it. Stay tight on that right-hander and make a straight line to the left-hander across that short shoot. Stay tight on the left-hand sweeper. Hard to say how fast you will be going coming out of the sweeper but I would drift out to the right side of the straightaway following the sweeper. Try it, see if it works.
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