🏁 Kart racing or karting is a variant of motorsport road racing with open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicles known as go-karts or shifter karts.

🏁 American Art Ingels is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a racecar builder at Kurtis Kraft, he built the first kart in Southern California in 1956.  Instantly popular, Karting rapidly spread to other countries, and currently has a large following in the United States and Europe.

🏁 The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. (1957). In 1959, McCulloch was the first company to produce engines for karts. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10 was an adapted chainsaw two-stroke engine.  Later, in the 1960’s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy, started to build engines for the sport.