Karting Club PRO Antalya

In Kepez, in the wider Antalya area, Karting Club PRO lays out a five-hundred-metre open-air asphalt circuit, within the FUNtastic Park leisure complex. You drive RIMO EVO 6 karts with nine-horsepower petrol engines, able to reach around sixty kilometres an hour, on a layout that runs to about a dozen laps per race. It is a serious venue, built for speed lovers, where each ten-minute session leaves time to find your rhythm.

Karting stays open with no licence, and the track welcomes drivers from the age of fourteen, with up to twelve karts on track at once for real races among friends. The team provides safety gear and a briefing before every run, and timing lets you compare lap times. People come for the feel of a fast, well-designed track, and return to shave seconds off their best lap, alone or in a group.

Antalya is the capital of the Turkish Riviera, a major Mediterranean city at the foot of the Taurus mountains. Its old town, Kaleiçi, its Roman walls and its picturesque harbour, along with the Düden waterfalls that tumble into the sea, set the pace of a stay. All around, the beaches, the ancient sites of Perge and Aspendos and the snow-capped peaks in winter offer a rare contrast between sea and mountain. Antalya international airport, one of the busiest in the country, serves this whole coast, popular with visitors from Europe.