KARTING - HOW TO GET STARTED

Like everything else however, getting into Karting has its complications. You have to choose between a huge number of different categories for a start, then find a budget to buy your Kart - which can be anything from £500 to £5,000, depending on the machine you choose.

It doesn't stop there either. There's a whole stack of tools you have to buy, plus the inevitable trailer to tow the thing around with. Plus of course, you have to have somewhere safe to store it. On top of all this, tuning your Kart is something of an expert's black art, a specialist's job that in relative terms, isn't cheap.

If in reading this, you're beginning to think that it all sounds just that bit too much of a hassle, you could be forgiven. But what if all that cost and hassle could be removed and all you had to do was to drive to the circuit, sit in the kart and take the chequered flag, just like David Coulthard on a day trip from Monaco? You'd be interested wouldn't you.

This is the concept behind initiatives like Club 100. While it's karting made easy from a practical point of view, from a competitive perspective, it's as tough as they come. Club 100 customers wouldn't want it any other way. You have to remember that most of motorsport is governed by the cheque book. Those who can afford the best tyres, the fastest engines and the finest components always have an advantage, regardless of whether or not they're actually better drivers. We prepare all our karts to an identical standard, so each race is a superb spirit level of where you're at as a driver.

Normally for prospective drivers, the first choice to make is between the two main types of kart in common use in the UK; two and four-stroke. If you've seen a kart before, it's probably based on one of the bigger four-stro...