There are always going to be incidents, but that is true of any motorsport. The standards are fine really, contact is frequent I would say, but the tracks are fairly safe and the karts weigh so little and have so much grip they usually spin out.
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There should be far more categories that are literally arrive and drive, no transport or at least no pro teams. Sorry, no excuse.īut the former, in a sport where children are involved and which should be totally and utterly about equality is a blight and one of the saddest things about entry level motorsport I know. There are times when a good shout is necessary but I have witnessed examples that were plain abuse, nothing more and you see club officials just watching, they should be ashamed and are afraid to get invovled because the adult is monied orimportant locally or perhaps a club member. Anyone seen doing this AT ANY LEVEL should be asked to leave in my opinion. You get the latter in most sports, football, tennis, motocross. Two things I find upsetting in karting are the expense that parents and teams ask of them, and the shouty Dads. If the track doesn't have tire barriers or fences close to the track Karting is pretty safe, if you wear the right safety equipment that is!Īny kind of motorsport involving children is fraught with issues and dangers, especially that young. In all those years I bruised my ribs about 6 times(Happens I think almost everybody who does karting) and have broken my wrist once, I think somebody who has been playing football for over 15 years has had many more injuries than I have. Which was down to the track just being too dangerous and in hindsight everybody had seen that one coming to be honest. Karting as sport is relatively safe in my opinion, I have been karting for over 15 years now and have luckily "only" witnessed 1 death. I think those numbers include indoor karting, in the Netherlands we nearly have just 600 people who do karting as a sport so I find it very unlikely all of them getting seriously hurt every year It says that there are 600 emergency visits a year in the Netherlands with a mean stay of 32.5 days.