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Kart Teams Provide Garage Materials and the Garage Itself

A Traveling Formula 1 Garage Under a Tent

Tented trailers full of tools, spare parts and karts travels with each team from race to race.
Kart Teams Provide Garage Materials and the Garage Itself

The Birel kart company's tent and work area at the Kart Discovery fair outside Paris in February. A typical scene at a kart race.

Photo (c) 2007 Brad Spurgeon licensed to About.com, Inc.
The big companies that make the karts, like Tony Kart or Birel, travel from race to race carrying extra chassis, engines, tools and all the necessary pieces for a karting weekend. But they also bring the motor home and tent used as the working area - because despite its similarity to Formula 1, they do not have the luxury of using the costly working areas at the world's major circuits.

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