Gokart Burda Karting

In İzmit, in the province of Kocaeli, Gokart Burda sets up its covered track in the car park of the Burda shopping centre, which lets you drive under cover whatever the weather. The layout runs three hundred metres across two thousand square metres, with two long straights to let the karts loose, and welcomes children and adults alike on suitable courses. It is a handy option for a few laps after a shopping trip, right in the middle of town.

The venue runs German-made karts, certified and regularly maintained, a guarantee of safety for drivers. Karting stays open to all, with no licence or experience: a briefing, a helmet, and you head off to find your best lap on the covered layout. The short format suits families as much as groups of friends out to race, and people happily come back to beat their time. For opening times, tied to those of the shopping centre, it is best to check before coming.

İzmit, ancient Nicomedia, was a great city of antiquity, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire under Diocletian, and keeps a few traces of that past. The city spreads at the head of the Gulf of İzmit, between sea and hills, with its landscaped seafront and its Ottoman hunting lodge. Close by, Lake Sapanca and the mountain resort of Kartepe offer a breath of nature much loved at weekends, and Istanbul is only an hour away by road. The city is a major crossroads, linked by motorway and high-speed train to the rest of the country.