A friend of mine is a writer for Men's Vogue, and he took me along as a photographer for a story about Grand Prix New York, a new indoor karting track that is opening soon. The track is great with quite a bit of elevation change, and turns modeled after quite a few famous corners out there in the real world. It's a little bit costly, but well worth the price for an afternoon of racing - and after each race a printout of your telemetry is handed out - a really nice touch for comparing lap times and what have you.

Anyway, while I was driving, I kept thinking of LFS. Check it out if you live in the Northeast.

http://www.mensvogue.com/magaz ... ly/2008/02/la-kart-1.html

Nice, not far from me. I might have to try and check that out next time I'm down that way.

thx for the notice. i'll check it out.

There's a place in northern New Jersey too. I've been meaning to check it out. They use electric karts instead but apparently still have no problem spinning the wheels, at least from a standing start, probably due to the nature of electric motors (and the fact they make 12hp).

http://www.v-17.com/zones-live-kart-racing.php