This American Road

Experience America this summer with Andrew Burmon

The Ultimate Road Trip Detour: Go Kart Racing?

by Paul Brady (RSS feed) on Jul 11th 2011 at 11:30AM

At the outset of this road trip, I invited friends and readers to jump in the car with me. After more than a month on the road, one of my buddies finally took me up on the offer, planning to meet me in Virginia Beach after I toured Colonial Williamsburg.

I've known Rob for more than 10 years, and while we get along wonderfully, we love competition. So it being a road trip, there was no better place to spar than on a go kart track.

Traveling the American Road - Go Kart Racing

By a fantastic coincidence, Virginia Beach Motor World has a loop inspired by Watkins Glen International, a place I'd visited earlier this summer–and driven on the pro-level track. It wasn't an exact replica, but I planned to put some of my driving experience in Upstate New York to good use in Virginia.

Rob and I have raced before, in Chile of all places, in super-speedy karts that required helmets. Splitting a few races this time around, we still haven't determined a champion. We're hoping to do that when we get to the Orlando Kart Center. But first we have a stop to make in the Outer Banks.

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