When opening a karting center, first of all, you need to decide on the scale of the center. Depending on the size of the initial capital, you can open a karting center in the form of a small site for a go-kart track, an average karting center or an elite karting club.
Types of karting centers
Karting is a professional sport. But in recent years, karting has become increasingly popular as a service for entertainment and active recreation. Car rental centers are opening in many cities and are in great demand. It is quite simple to open your own business of organizing rental karting - it all depends on the amount of the invested amount.
With the small size of the available initial capital, the easiest way to start a business is to equip a small go-kart site in a city recreation park. To do this, you need to rent a part of the park and obtain a permit to build a go-kart track. The track can be from 30 to 300 meters long. The surface for the track must be leveled, asphalted and protected with old tires. It will be enough to have 5-6 cars in the fleet. This option for organizing a business will cost about 15-20 thousand dollars.
If 70-100 thousand dollars are available to create and develop a business, then the best option would be to build a separate open go-kart center. The length of the track in the karting center should be about 700 meters. For renting, you need to buy 7-10 cars. In addition to the race track, the go-kart center should have the accompanying infrastructure: showers and changing cabins, equipped places to watch the races, coffee machines, points of sale of drinks and instant snacks.
The most expensive and prestigious type of karting center is an elite indoor karting club. Its construction will cost 150-300 thousand dollars. An elite club must be located indoors. Its main feature is the tracks with special coverage and telemetry systems. In addition to the track itself, additional infrastructure should be organized inside the karting club. There should be 10-15 racing cars in the car park of the club.
General recommendations for starting a karting business
The first thing to look for when starting a rental car business is the quality of the racetrack. The better the track coverage, the less the car tires will wear out and the longer they will serve. The cost of purchasing cars depends on the quality and degree of use of the purchased units. So, professional cars will cost 7-8 thousand dollars per unit, new cars - 3-4 thousand dollars, and used cars cost 700-900 dollars. For a go-kart site in a city park or for an outdoor go-kart center, used karts are fine.
A profitable business solution in the karting center will be its arrangement with a modern electronic timekeeping system - displaying the speed of the race on the electronic scoreboard in the results of the client's arrival creates an atmosphere of competition and the desire of clients to come again to improve their own performance.
