Kid Kart (Comer)
First helmet. First laps.
The Comer Kid Kart class is the very first rung of the karting ladder. It is where a five-year-old learns a wheel, a throttle, and a brake in the safest, most supervised setting the sport has.
Drivers ages 5 to 7. This is a first-helmet class, built for the youngest racers in the Rhythm & Race series. It looks like play, and it is also the foundation every senior racer is built on.
Kid Karts run a small, gentle two-stroke engine in the Comer specification, deliberately limited so the speed matches the age. The whole package is scaled to a young child.
Kid Kart racing is closely supervised and slow by design, but it is real racing: a grid, a green flag, and a checkered. The lessons, look ahead, be smooth, are the same ones the fastest drivers on the property are still working on.
See every class side by side, and find the one that fits a driver by age and weight, in the Class Explorer.
How old does a child need to be for Kid Karts?
The Comer Kid Kart class is for drivers ages 5 to 7. It is the youngest class in the Rhythm & Race Championship Series and the entry point to competitive karting.
Is Kid Kart racing safe for a five-year-old?
Kid Karts are deliberately slow, scaled to a young child, and the most closely supervised class in the sport. They are how the youngest racers safely learn the basics.
RACE THE
RHYTHM & RACE SERIES.
The Kid Kart (Comer)class runs in MCK's sanctioned outdoor championship, 10 rounds from March through November. New to the sport? Start in a rental and climb the ladder.