Petition to have these race around Monaco on Grand Prix weekend.

I would LOVE to see you race one and give us your first hand perspective!

The Kart race in Adelaide was a support race for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix when it was held in Adelaide in the 80s and 90s. Organisers wanted action on the track at all times. So there were races like this Kart race along with celebrities racing cars which lead to some pretty bad crashes. No surprise they cancelled kart races at the F1 Australian GP after that. I remember the crash well when it happened.

Yes! I'd absolutely love to see you run with these guys.

I love those things, Superkarts look like a blast to drive, but you have to be quite skilled or they'll help you meet your maker. Kudos to those drivers for being so brave! ✌️😄

Yes, absolutely yes, I would love to watch you do a full race if not more!

Having weird déjà vu vibes...haven't I watched this video yet? I'm I the chosen one?

GO for it Scott! I think you will dominate;-)

Scott !! You HAVE TO race these !! Can't wait to see the videos you'll make about it !

Drove myself for 2 seasons in Germany. Unforgettable experience and very expensive hobby. I’m missing it a lot. Nice to see that the sport is getting some attention now. Thank you.

My dad is in these clips black kart, number 29 - Bob Johnstone. He won the British GP championships in 1986! Lovely to see him racing as it was before I was born!

Would love to see them on Monaco track.

Sorry, this is long; The Adelaide SuperKart Club use to race with the motor bike clubs back in the 80's. The Karts were told they were no longer welcome because even the smaller 80cc Karts were faster than some of the bigger bikes and the 250cc's were setting lap records faster than the national level cars had set. The bike riders didn't like that. So they had to organise all their own events and had to have licenced officials. They asked if the local officials club to do the events. The club was the South Australian Motor Racing Officials club (S.A.M.R.O.A) who accepted. I was a member at the time and we were blown away by these little things and the racing they were capable of! I have some fond memories of some amazing racing at Adelaide International Raceway (A.I.R.) and Mallala Motorsport Park. If you don't know these tracks please Google these them to save me describing them later. At the end of the event/weekend the Superkart club invited all the officials back to their paddock shed and feed and "watered" us. The amount of drivers who came up to us as individuals to thanks us took us back as it never happened much back then from the cars guys. A lot of other officials didn't attend, at first, because they didn't think it would be worth it. Word soon got around the to others how great they were. How fantastic the racing and how mental the speeds they were doing. The classes that raced at first were 80cc, 125 cc, 250cc National (single cylinder) and 250 International (twin cylinder) and with 5 or 6 speed gearboxes. One driver I remember, nick named "The Professor" not because he was like Prost but how he built his Karts. He ran an enclosed body with a very laid down seating position and ground effects with a 125cc engine. He was challenging some of the midfield 250 Internationals. He went on to build a twin 125cc engined Kart with enclosed body work and ground effects. He sat between the engines and classed as a 250 International. He did well but not as dominant as when he raced the single 125. The fields were always large and the 80's always had the biggest field due to their cost. There were crashes like any other form of motor racing would have and I can not think of any seriously hurt drivers except for one at A.I.R. This driver clipped another which launched his Kart into the air and into the concrete barrier along the main straight as A.I.R. had a drag strip too. I think it was a 250 National. There were two wheel marks a blue sidepod mark and helmet mark on the wall about half a metre off the ground for a very long time after. The driver suffered brain damage and I don't think he ever recovered. Most of the crashes were damaged steering or nose cones knocked off the Karts. I was lucky enough to have a go at a 80cc Kart. It was great to see what a driver got to see as an official and a hell of a lot of fun too. One of our club members and a friend of mine was having a test day and invited a few of us out for a spin at Mallala. If I was being timed I didn't know it. So I had no idea how I went, but that wasn't the point. I knew I was getting quicker. Of course I had a spin too. Only way to find the limit. Even in the 80cc it was amazing how fast it was, I had driven Sprint Karts before and they were not as fast due to not having a gearbox. Both are awesome fun in their own way. I could go on an don about these things. They're just great fun to see. I implore anyone to have a go at these amazing and awesome little machines! Racing one must be a huge buzz, no pun intended. So Mr Mansell, grow some big balls, not for courage, more for centre of gravity and race one. These race machines are overly under rated!

For the last Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Adelaide before it went to Melbourne, the Super Kart support race were invited back and were laping faster than the F1 cars around the street circuit. Senna was so keen on the racing that he almost missed the F1 drivers parade because he was watching the Super Karts going through different sections around the track and had to be picked up on a motor bike and driven back to the pits.

I just love karting at all levels. Would be great to see you do the series. Go for it Scott.

150mph in a kart is absolutely insane. I'm sure the karts weigh twice as much as they should due to the huge balls of anyone who drives them.

Man.. A whiplash in these will be so insane 😱

I'd love to see you race in superkarts! Amazing video as always, love it when you explain and comment while watching others drive

In the early days of the Long Beach GP.... they ran the karts as an exhibition race prior to the F1 cars. They were not invited back in later years, as they turned faster lap times than the F1cars.

Yes, I would love to see you race one of these Super Karts. Have fun!

If you think Superkarts at Adelaide is crazy, I had a video in the mid nineties called This is Karting which included a section showing superkarts racing around a village on the Isle of Mann. But I’d say take the offer to race one up.

I built a highly modified honda cr250 super kart 20 yrs ago, and i got it up to 160 mph with plenty of rpm range to go. I made a custom butterfly shifter just under the steering wheel to keep both hands on the wheel at all times. All my friends who drove it named it the death machine. It was a crazy fast machine.

can't wait to see you race one of these.

These karts look insane!

Definitely do a season in the superkart. I'd like you to concentrate on the setup and development process from an out of the crate kart. One change at a time and demonstrate the improvement and tweeks.

This is one of the most exciting race series ever! Hard to find them on the internet, but when you do, its a treat! I drove a Shifter Cart for 2 laps at an SCCA Autocross event, and it was amazing! They are not forgiving tho, and can be brutal on your body!

Crashing and immediately catching fire reminds me of F1 in the 70s.

Definitely must surely accept that invite to drive :D

Would love to see you race one of these

"Maybe that is why they are giving much of space to each other". Well yes fear of death is a really convincing force. It isn't just fear to shunt but everyone knows that the other one is also pushing to the limit. And when you lose the grip with karts it is like a block of ice on frozen lake. No one wants to get remotely hit and put out of balance by a sliding driver at 200.

10:36 This is like Mario Kart, but in the real world 😂

I’d watch every single race of your super-kart season The idea of showing motorsport season from the backstage is soooo gooooood 😅🤩

It'll be cool to see you race in one of this! Big thanks to you for introducing this superkarts! Or else I'll never know this awesome piece of machinery.

Yes, we would love to see you race one and get all the inside details! 🏎️

What’s not to love about Cadwell Park ? Raced there, spannered there, spectated there. ❤

Would be cool to see all the details and setup of a superkart race weekend.

Love your work, thank you so much

This is how you fix monaco.

Love to see you in a Supercart series Scott!

Hell Yeah. Do it Scott seeing you race one of those little beasts would be awesome.

I was 19 when I drove one of these at Mallala in Australia. I only did a few laps but it was, to this day, the scariest and most unbelievably intense experience I have ever had in anything on four wheels. I got out shaking and disoriented as if I'd time warped and then everything around me came to a stop when the kart did. Absolutely fucking surreal...

Yes, race it and YES I want to see it

Can’t wait to see these at Assen this year again (so good to finally see some shots at ‘my’ circuit). Love too see them live again

I wanna see Scott race one of these bad boys!

Many, many F1 drivers started in Superkarts, and professional drivers in many of the other racing series continue to race in Superkarts.

These guys give each other the respect that other drivers in almost all series don't. They know how easily they could be severely injured or killed so they race accordingly. So many drivers over the last 20-30 years don't because even massive accidents don't have any serious consequences. They walk away from accidents like it's nothing, you don't do that in an accident in one of these. Love to see proper, respectful racing!

the karts smashing and catching on fire at adelaide was a regular feature in the 89's. superkarts was huge at the time

Amazing content from SCOTT! He just doesn't talk about it like many racing KZfaqrs. He jumps in action and yes I enjoy this channel a lot.

Carts are great. Seat just off the tarmac which gives you feeling twice the speed you're going. Close racing with slip streaming just like Motor 3.❤

I can't imagine driving these things around Sebring. Especially the concrete sections. You need a chiropractor.

Go for it Scott, you are an absolute legend

This is wild, much respect to drivers

you should defiantly race them. 👍

Adelaide F1 was my first exposure to superkarts. One of the drivers in the Adelaide crash actually headbutted the wall.

I was talking to my instructor at a driving event once and he said he had to stop karting as a kid after the second time he broke his back. I had done a little single speed gas karting and had thought about getting my son into it, until then. Now we just mess around at the indoor electric karting places.

I would love to see you race super karts, make a series out of it!

I have a YZ80 powered one I use for fun and if you gear it down for a regular kart track it wheelies on the clutch....hilarious

As long as you're safe, we would love you to race these carts!

Do it, do it, do it. But seriously Your face lights up when you discuss these carts in any of your videos. Can see that pure pleasure and thrill is there for you. Plus I think you could really educate a lot of want to be racers about giving space n respect on the track. Something you seem keen on experiencing and further learning yourself. And with your obvious experience, I find fascinating in itself. If you get what I mean.

Please race super karts. I’d love to see that.

Dads a 5 time champion in these things best to ever do it

Oh yes please do make content around riding these! Carting videos are super fun.

Promote go-kart racing? ABSOLUTELY!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO WATCH THIS RACING 🏁

Would love to see more, this class looks insane

I used to race 250 National on short circuit tracks. The best fun you'll ever have with a 65-70 bhp 250cc single! 0-100 mph was something like 6.5 secs for us. I never had the budget or balls to race the twins though. Seeing this video has bought back some great memories though. @driver61 you have to race them! You're racing career won't be complete until you do it!

Are you kidding? Documenting one of the most terrifying Motorsports for us? Give! Spot on that someone finally give you a go at one of these weapons properly!

I watched some supercart racing at Anglesey Circuit recently and they were brilliant fun to watch and scary knowing the potential danger.

I used to race 125cc shifter karts in the US, that's a load of fun too.

Wuss. I raced the 250 cc Class 4 International back in the '60s! A 250 cc Suzuki twin, air cooled, was good for about 50 bhp. No bodywork. No wings and no front brakes! It would lap Silverstone right around 100 mph on the GP circuit. It was wonderful. So, get yer arse in one and race it. Cadwell would be a good place to start.

Yes, race one of these!

I've always wanted to blast one of these around a track!

I am the Pro Instructor at SpeedWorld in Winnipeg Canada teaching local Go_Kart racers basic and in depth advanced racing strategies. At the highest level often the final comes down which driver is lighter. I often tell fat racers to just give up because under regulations they will only lose all day long. I never got into a being a tub of lard and that's why I still remain Canadian Champion to this day. The carts are all basically the same spec wise. Its just who dropped a shit and didn't eat before the race.

HELLS YES!!! RACE THE SUPERKART!!!!

Yes, please race one and do a full race video. Also, consider doing a video on the 125cc shifter sprint karts. I'm assuming they are sanctioned for racing in the UK? They are quite popular here in the US. My son & I each have one.

Pleaseeeee race these karts this year and stick it on YT, the more karting content the better imo just to push the sport further into the limelight, I can no longer race anymore unfortunately due to money reasons (it’s still an expensive sport even in x30, rotax, etc) but driving one of these is a dream, or maybe nightmare, of mine, it’s so much fun and as you said, I genuinely don’t think you can get closer to that F1 level of feeling without being in an F1 car, nothing comes close! Brilliant video 🙏🏻

I’ve driven a 80cc super kart on a track day and it was pretty mental. I’m from Adelaide and it was around the time the fiery crash you showed. Watching that didn’t put me off. Adelaide always has super karts and it was crazy. They were just a little slower than the F1 cars.

YES we want to see you racing a Superkart

Go for it scott! My back could not handle it!! 😂

Really fascinating stuff! Great video!

PLEASE RACE ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!!

I need to drive this 😂 this comes from a person who had quite a high speed Karting crash last night 😂😂😂

did a race with these at monaco in project cars, it's as amazing as I was expecting

PLEASE RACE !! YES YES YESSS

apparantly coulthard once stated, the only time he was scared in 4 wheeled vehicle was in a superkart

Yes, please race in SuperKart. I bet you’d dominate Scott!

I would move to see an overengineered Superkart not gonna lie, it would be interesting to see what's the maximum amount of pace a kart would be able to do so if it had more money and development poured into it

The clumping for areo benefits is fun to watch, REALLY well seen in the IMSA Mx5 series. really fun to watch. and stay away from those crazy things.

YES Race it! I got to drive one at a sprint at Phillip Island in the 90's, and my god the bruises I had afterwards. A very smooth circuit but these things are mental, being so small and nimble you would take corners flat that are hard brakes in even a Formula Ford

ive driven some 25/30 hp karts. and it was terrifying. just cant imagine what would be to drive a 100hp one.

Seen them often at the Assen TT Circuit and they are insanely fast. Especially considering the size and the fact that the drivers don't wear a seatbelt at all. They are crazy bits of kit that you'd expect in the 80's but not in today's safety first era.

Dare you to a race-off in one o' these

It's interesting seeing a man with experience with a ton of racing cars, including F1 cars, saying that this is the scariest thing he drove, and by experience I don't mean 2 laps and that's it, no he was actually competitive, these little things are insane

I grew up racing karts and eventually ended in shifter karts with a Rotax 125 CC engine. I can't even imagine driving one of these monsters lol

Seems like a fun class for F1 drivers that have 4 or more Pirelli Pole Position awards

Caldwell park is where the formula 3 scene from rush was filmed!

I SO want to see these race at the Isle of Man TT course!!!

Of course I would love to see you race one of them

Yep..id like to see you race these Scott..used to watch them round silverstone in the 80s

Would love to see you race one this year!

Mad lads. I race too, but I’ve seen these things race in person at Sears Point (now Sonoma raceway) and they’re utterly insane. As usual, you can’t appreciate the speed from video.