Gokartcentret på Rörken

At Rörken, near Uppsala, Gokartcentret occupies one of Sweden's finest karting tracks, an eight-hundred-and-eighty-metre outdoor layout set on the Rörken Motorstadion. The site has hosted the Swedish Karting Championship, proof of the quality of its wide, fast track, driven on petrol-engined racing karts. It is a leading home of motorsport in the Uppsala region, geared towards training and racing.

Karting here runs to the rhythm of training sessions and competitions, on a track built for performance rather than a simple spin. The categories range from the youngest drivers, in micro and mini, to the most powerful machines of the senior classes, in the great tradition of racing karts. As the offer and the slots change with the seasons, it is best to check before coming to learn the access terms and any sessions open to the public.

Uppsala, Sweden's fourth city, is a historic university town, home to the oldest university in Scandinavia and overlooked by its great brick cathedral, the tallest in the country. Close by, the site of Gamla Uppsala and its royal burial mounds tell of the Viking age, while the gardens of the botanist Linnaeus recall the town's scientific heritage. Uppsala is reached in about forty minutes by train from Stockholm, making it an easy stop north of the capital.