How did many of the world's top F1 drivers, including Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, and Fernando Alonso, hone their checkered-flag skills? Fishtailing around go-kart tracks, of course. The recently opened 120,000-square-foot Grand Prix New York in Westchester is a righteous proving ground of your pole-position prowess. Its two quarter-mile indoor tracks are stocked with hairpins, elevation changes, and lengthy straightaways to top out the gas-powered karts at 40 mph — but when you're swerving inside to block a would-be passer, you'd swear you were hitting triple digits. And even if you have no ambition to make the pro circuit, let alone the freeway's fast lane, you can finally end the eternal dispute between fathers and sons: Who is the best driver? Just be sure to have a guaranteed ride home.
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Kart Blanche
Racing micro machines is not just for children anymore. By Michael Mraz
April 2008
Drivers follow the leader at Grand Prix New York; gpny.com. (Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis)
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