Go-Kart Track Design
Family Road Course Tracks
"Adult" Slick Road Course Tracks
High Banked Oval & Tri-Oval Course Tracks
Indoor and outdoor Electric (Battery Powered) Road Course Tracks
Rookie & Kiddie Tracks
Entertainment Concepts, Inc. has been developing state of the art, entertaining and exciting concession go-kart tracks for a wide range of clients and specific site situations. Since 1990 our firm has created many new designs and operational concepts for more than 155 existing tracks throughout the United States, Canada and overseas. These include outdoor gasoline and electric powered go-karts and indoor electric go-karts.
Throughout the entire period we have been leading innovators in the development unique exciting and entertaining track designs that serve to generate guest excitement and entertainment. These designs challenge driving skills by having short straight elements, left hand and right hand turns, individual curve banking and grade changes all calculated to keep driver's attention on the track ahead of them. This has proven to be a prime element in the high return rates experienced by our clients.
Throughout the entire period we have been leading innovators in the development unique exciting and entertaining track designs that serve to generate guest excitement and entertainment. These designs challenge driving skills by having short straight elements, left hand and right hand turns, individual curve banking and grade changes all calculated to keep driver's attention on the track ahead of them. This has proven to be a prime element in the high return rates experienced by our clients.
As professional engineers we've introduced many modern construction practices, pavement designs and safety features into each of our designs. From our first track design in 1990, we've incorporated reversibility of driving direction into every track design to increase the driving experiences available by reversing the direction of travel on the track, changing sequences of curve banking and other track elements, and adding dual and triple Pitting configurations to increase the peak hour ride volumes without having to construct additional tracks. We also continually seek to improve track safety barrier systems and entrance/exit gates to enhance safety; and pit building configurations with roll-up doors to permit on-track year around storage and higher on track lighting levels for safety.
With the influx of practical operating systems, improved battery performance, we've developed both indoor and outdoor electric (battery powered) go-kart tracks that not only provide full-sized karts with multiple speed ranges but add separate pitting for rookie karts for younger drivers without having to add a separate track.
The addition of rookie karts to an FEC go-kart package can increase the appeal for families with younger children and adds a great birthday party component to the mix. For facilities that have too high a demand for full-sized karts to share the pavement, we also design "rookie" road course configurations based on lower speeds, narrower pavements, and smaller karts. Recognizing the potential for greatly increasing the popularity of slick tracks in 1995, our firm created an "Adult" Slick Road Course Concept to provide older, more experienced drivers with a more challenging driving experience. This driving skills track concept introduced a number of elements that assured their popularity, creating geometric track designs that required both left and right-hand turns on a tight flat track design with much tighter turns, a very flat cross-section, smoother pavement surface with waxed surfaces that simulate driving on "black ice." Our later designs introduced elevation changes into the mix.
We’ve also designed specialty tracks, including high-banked ovals, tri-ovals, dual and triple use competition racing go-kart tracks, modern 'kiddie" tracks and related concepts.
With the influx of practical operating systems, improved battery performance, we've developed both indoor and outdoor electric (battery powered) go-kart tracks that not only provide full-sized karts with multiple speed ranges but add separate pitting for rookie karts for younger drivers without having to add a separate track.
The addition of rookie karts to an FEC go-kart package can increase the appeal for families with younger children and adds a great birthday party component to the mix. For facilities that have too high a demand for full-sized karts to share the pavement, we also design "rookie" road course configurations based on lower speeds, narrower pavements, and smaller karts. Recognizing the potential for greatly increasing the popularity of slick tracks in 1995, our firm created an "Adult" Slick Road Course Concept to provide older, more experienced drivers with a more challenging driving experience. This driving skills track concept introduced a number of elements that assured their popularity, creating geometric track designs that required both left and right-hand turns on a tight flat track design with much tighter turns, a very flat cross-section, smoother pavement surface with waxed surfaces that simulate driving on "black ice." Our later designs introduced elevation changes into the mix.
We’ve also designed specialty tracks, including high-banked ovals, tri-ovals, dual and triple use competition racing go-kart tracks, modern 'kiddie" tracks and related concepts.
Electric (Battery Powered) Go-Karts:
All our indoor go-kart track designs have utilized electric (battery powered) go-karts to eliminate the costly carbon monoxide removal systems required to maintain a constant fresh air supply for the guests and staff when gasoline powered karts are used.
In 1999 we designed what may well have been the first outdoor electric (battery powered) go-kart track in Louisiana accepting the higher costs to accommodate owner desires. The added costs included higher individual kart prices plus the need for a second set of karts to permit necessary recharging.
Today we have completed a number of outdoor electric tracks, either because of client requests or local zoning restrictions. This trend will increase as newer battery systems and more efficient motor design will remove the need for a second fleet of karts. . While the initial high cost of these karts kept them from being more widely used outdoors. Today’s modern kart control systems permit changing speeds of all karts at the same time, enabling us to design tracks that can accommodate a varying range of speeds, including separate testosterone speedway sessions during periods where the track guests are primarily adult and as family tracks when the majority of the guests are families and younger drivers; and at even lower speeds for birthday party groups.
In 1999 we designed what may well have been the first outdoor electric (battery powered) go-kart track in Louisiana accepting the higher costs to accommodate owner desires. The added costs included higher individual kart prices plus the need for a second set of karts to permit necessary recharging.
Today we have completed a number of outdoor electric tracks, either because of client requests or local zoning restrictions. This trend will increase as newer battery systems and more efficient motor design will remove the need for a second fleet of karts. . While the initial high cost of these karts kept them from being more widely used outdoors. Today’s modern kart control systems permit changing speeds of all karts at the same time, enabling us to design tracks that can accommodate a varying range of speeds, including separate testosterone speedway sessions during periods where the track guests are primarily adult and as family tracks when the majority of the guests are families and younger drivers; and at even lower speeds for birthday party groups.