The Fastest Karting Tracks in the UK

The Fastest UK Karting Tracks, Ranked

Speed in rental karting comes down to the machine you are given and the track it runs on. The table below ranks venues by the quoted top speed of the fastest kart class available to the public, using the figures each venue publishes. Most also run slower fleets for standard sessions.

Speeds are the venues' own quoted figures for their fastest publicly bookable kart class. The quickest classes carry age and experience restrictions — check each track page for details.

The Top Picks in Detail

1. Daytona Milton Keynes — 70mph on a James Hunt circuit

The benchmark. Daytona's flagship outdoor venue pairs the 125cc Rotax DMAX — a proper two-stroke that tops out near 70mph — with a demanding 1,360m International Circuit designed by 1976 F1 World Champion James Hunt. Eleven corners and an uphill straight give the DMAX room to stretch, and the standard SODI SR5 four-strokes still run around 50mph. The DMAX is for experienced drivers aged 16 and over. Read more on the Daytona Milton Keynes page.

2. Lakeside Karting — Essex's 70mph outlier

Lakeside bills itself as the largest and fastest kart track in Essex, and the numbers stand up: 390cc race karts that will run up to around 70mph in adult hands, on a 900m circuit with three full-throttle straights and a competitive lap around 55 seconds. Unlike Daytona's DMAX, this pace comes in the standard adult fleet (from age 16), which makes Lakeside arguably the most accessible 70mph karting in the country.

3. Daytona Tamworth — DMAX in the Midlands

The Midlands answer. Daytona Tamworth runs the same ~70mph DMAX class (16+, or assessed 14-15s) on a recently designed 1,000m circuit with twelve corners and a long high-speed straight — billed by the venue as the Midlands' largest outdoor kart track. The standard N35-ST four-strokes are good for around 50mph.

4. Daytona Sandown Park — 70mph inside a racecourse

The same DMAX machinery — 125cc, 23hp, roughly 70mph — on a 900m Grand Prix Circuit laid out inside the grounds of Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher. Two proper straights and eight corners give the two-stroke space to work, and race formats run up to 50-minute D40 events. Details on the Daytona Sandown Park page.

5. Karting North East — 60mph on a championship track

Karting North East at Warden Law is where speed meets scale: 390cc Honda karts reaching the 60mph mark on a 1,200m Motorsport UK approved circuit that has staged rounds of the British Kart Championship. Ten turns, long straights and grids of up to 35 karts make it as much about racecraft as raw pace.

6. Larkhall Circuit — Scotland's fastest rental karting

Scotland's longest circuit is also its quickest rental drive. Larkhall, 25 minutes from Glasgow, runs 390cc Centurion karts capable of around 60mph on a recently extended 1,140m track. It is rated advanced, arrive and drive starts at 14, and the resident West of Scotland Kart Club has raced here since the early 1960s.

7. Red Lodge Karting — 60mph in Suffolk, tiered by ability

Red Lodge takes a graduated approach: GX160 cadet karts run to about 35mph, GX200s to around 40mph, and the top GX270 karts are quoted at up to 60mph with strong acceleration — reserved for drivers 14 and over on a floodlit outdoor circuit of just under 1,200m. A sensible ladder if your group mixes first-timers with quick drivers.

Fastest indoor: TeamSport Warrington

Indoor electric karts cannot match outdoor two-strokes, but TeamSport Warrington gets closest: karts topping out around 45mph on a 1000m multi-level circuit with 22 corners and a Monaco-style tunnel — billed by TeamSport as the UK's longest indoor track. The length matters; on a short indoor loop you would never see that speed.

How We Chose

Every speed figure above is the venue's own published number for its fastest publicly bookable kart, as recorded on our individual track pages — we have not estimated or averaged anything. Where a venue's fastest kart is restricted (Daytona's DMAX, Lakeside's 390cc class), we say so. Tracks were ranked by that top figure, with circuit length and character as tiebreakers. Venues that do not publish a speed for their fastest kart were left out rather than guessed at.

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