KARTING'S GOLDEN SUMMER: CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MODERN AUTO RACING'S CORNERSTONE

摘要

ONE AUGUST DAY IN 1956 a creative soul named Art Ingels, nominally employed by Frank Kurtis to build Indianapolis Roadsters in Glendale, California, found himself with too little to do and a little lawnmower motor that had been rejected as unreliable. A few feet of Indy car frame tubing, a few welding beads, and presto: Ingels erected a new foundation for world auto racing. He didn't realize that, of course, nor did he coin the term Go Kart, Those things happened after a buddy named Duffy (we know his real name, but he says if we tell he will have to kill us) Livingstone dropped by. "I saw this thing sittin' on his bench and I said, 'What the heck is that?'" Livingstone recalls, "He said, 'I call it a little car.'