http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGn8gbQTR0

Took the kids to the above track on Monday. They thoroughly enjoyed driving. Not cheap though, well over £1 per lap on the twin engined karts they had. I used to race 100 National there in the late 1970s. The downhill right hand bend (as the clubhouse appears on the right hand side) is one of the best in karting. On a good day it could be taken flat out at over 4 G.
Cheers

I think the class was probably one of the TKM (Tal - Ko Motori) formulae, which are still going today. My kart had a TKM engine and the chassis was built by Chris Stoney, in Barnsley I think.
With the possible exeption of car grass tracking, karting is the least expensive form of 4 wheel motorsport. When I was racing, racing licence, club membership and race entry fee was less than £20, now same is £200 ish plus travel / fuel costs to attend race licence training and tests. Costs have increased at nearly twice rate of inflation.
Cheers

XJ40S wrote on 05.04.2012 at 22:49:19:


TKM is actually made in UK by Tal-Ko Racing Ltd, so I doubt the final i in Motori should be there ?
Maybe the last surviving motors manufacturer in UK ?? 

I used to work for Dino Racing in Denmark producing karts and engines, so we were competitors. Kind of, because TKM mainly focused on the TKM classes in UK
http://uk.dino.dk/