Why do you race

[Bimodal_Rocket (Dom Callan)]

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What Got You Started In Karting?

I don’t know if I’m replicating a former thread (hope not) I certainly wish I had started karting much earlier. My dad raced gearbox (shifter) karts in the 60’s and early 70’s in the UK so I was fully aware of karting at a young age. My dad actually built me a shifter kart (Villiers 8e engine) in the mid 60’s that I drove the wheels off in our back garden whenever I was able to. Dad mounted the pedals on the steering column support so I could reach them. I was about 5 years old at th…