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Karts on the Streets: The Legendary History of the Long Beach GPX Pro Kart Challenge Posted by Kart Racers Speed Shop If you've ever dreamed of racing on the same asphalt as Formula One legends, you're not alone. For a handful of extraordinary years in the early 1980s, some of the best kart racers in the country got to do exactly that — and the story of how it happened is one of the most exciting chapters in American karting history. The Monaco of the New World To understand the Long Beach GPX Pro Kart Challenge, you first have to...

If you wanted to write a creation myth for American karting, you couldn't invent a better one. In the summer of 1956, in a two-car garage in Echo Park, California — just a handful of miles from the McCulloch Motors factory sitting opposite Los Angeles International Airport — a racing car builder named Art Ingels welded together some steel tubing, bolted on a small two-stroke engine, and accidentally changed motorsport forever