Eco Kart

Eco Kart runs one of the largest electric karting tracks in Germany at August-Schanz-Straße 31a (60433 Frankfurt am Main). At 600 m long, the track spreads over three levels and counts around 20 corners, all with no emissions and no petrol smell.

The karts are electric Rimo machines, each fitted with two 2.8 kW motors. The 25-minute time trial costs 45 euros and is open from age 14 and a height of 1.45 m; the Grand Prix 30, with 8 minutes of qualifying and 22 laps, comes to 49 euros, and the Grand Prix 60, with 15 minutes of qualifying and 45 laps, to 79 euros. Children aged 10 to 13 have a 39-euro option, the two-seater for accompanied 6-to-14-year-olds costs 55 euros, plus 3 euros for the race licence. The venue also offers birthdays, corporate events, children's activities on Sunday mornings, online live timing and a view of the races from the bistro. Contact: +49 69 424241.

Frankfurt am Main is, with around 770,000 inhabitants, the economic capital of Germany, home of the European Central Bank and the stock exchange, nicknamed Mainhattan for its skyscrapers. Worth seeing are the rebuilt Römerberg with its half-timbered houses, the Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus, the Museumsufer with its thirteen museums including the Städel, and the birthplace of Goethe. Wiesbaden and Mainz, UNESCO-listed with its Gutenberg Museum, are each 40 km to the west, Heidelberg 80 km to the south.