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Home to legendary Buckmore Park where Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Lando Norris all started their racing careers. The South East offers the UK's richest motorsport heritage.
Augmented-reality karting at Borden, near Sittingbourne.
Double-level indoor track, UK home of Glow Karting.
Multi-level indoor electric circuit in Gillingham.
350m indoor circuit in Aylesbury with bowling and escape rooms.
Outdoor venue with three tracks: Bambino, Cadet, Main.
520m floodlit outdoor circuit on the Isle of Wight.
800m outdoor circuit near Brighton, day and night.
New indoor electric circuit at Burgess Hill.
1100m MSUK-licensed championship circuit.
Legendary 1000m circuit since 1963 where Hamilton, Button and Norris started.
900m track at prestigious Sandown Park Racecourse.
Kent's fastest outdoor circuit at 1040m on Romney Marsh.
500m multi-level petrol circuit in Basildon.
450m circuit with chicanes, hairpins and banked flyover.
750m three-floor circuit near Gatwick, designed by racing engineers.
500m multi-level track with 45mph electric karts.
Multi-level 450m electric circuit on the South Coast.
500m multi-level petrol circuit in Harlow.
500m electric karting plus Sixes Cricket.
Dual-track venue with 450m karting plus Combat Karts.
500m two-level track with double apex corners.
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The South East of England is a karting paradise, featuring the legendary Buckmore Park in Kent - widely regarded as the UK's premier karting circuit. This is where multiple F1 World Champions including Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, and current F1 star Lando Norris all began their racing journeys.
No other English region can match the South East for karting heritage. The sport here is anchored by Buckmore Park near Chatham, a genuine international circuit that opened in 1963 and hosted the final round of the 1996 Champions of the Future series, in which a young Lewis Hamilton raced. Jenson Button, Lando Norris and, more recently, Ollie Bearman all came through here as juniors too. But the region is far more than one famous track: from purpose-built race circuits on the Kent marshes to multi-storey electric venues near Gatwick, you can find almost every style of karting within an hour's drive of London.
The South East's outdoor tracks are among the best in Britain. Buckmore Park's 1,000-metre international layout, tucked into woodland off junction 3 of the M2, is rated intermediate-to-advanced and remains a working competition venue rather than a leisure loop. Nearby in Sittingbourne, Bayford Meadows is a floodlit 1,100-metre circuit licensed by Motorsport UK, staging sanctioned club races alongside family hire sessions. Out on Romney Marsh, Lydd Kart Circuit stretches to 1,040 metres and bills itself as the fastest outdoor track in Kent, home to the Lydd International Kart Club since 1993. Over the Essex border, Lakeside Karting in Thurrock ran 390cc petrol karts at up to 70mph around a 900-metre circuit — billed as the largest and fastest in the county — until it closed in September 2026. In Surrey, Daytona Sandown Park lays an eight-corner, 900-metre Grand Prix circuit inside the grounds of Sandown Park Racecourse, with 70mph Rotax DMAX karts available to experienced adults.
For all-weather racing, TeamSport operates a string of indoor venues, most of them electric. The largest is TeamSport Crawley, a 750-metre circuit spread over three floors beside Gatwick Airport, complete with linking ramps and a banked corner. TeamSport Farnborough runs a two-level 500-metre track with 45mph karts and an on-site Putt Club mini-golf course, while further electric venues in Brighton, Gosport, Reading, Southampton and High Wycombe, and petrol-kart tracks in Basildon and Harlow, put a weather-proof track within reach of most South East towns. Electric karts deliver instant acceleration with no fumes or engine noise, which makes indoor circuits a dependable choice for birthday parties and corporate days whatever the season.
Complete beginners and younger children are best served by the indoor TeamSport venues, where helmets and suits are provided, minimum ages start at eight and no experience is needed — Farnborough is rated beginner-to-intermediate and its adjoining mini-golf keeps non-racers entertained. Families chasing an authentic outdoor experience should look at Lydd or Daytona Sandown Park, both of which cater for very young drivers in Bambino karts (from age six at Sandown). Serious racers gravitate to Buckmore Park and Bayford Meadows, where licensed circuits, owner-driver testing days and club championships reward repeat visits and genuine technique.
Most South East venues sit close to the M2, M23 or M25. As outdoor circuits generally run in the wet and indoor tracks are weather-proof year-round, the region is a reliable day out in any season — but book ahead for weekends and school holidays, and confirm current prices and session times directly with each venue before travelling.