Electric, indoor, and quicker than you expect

K1 Speed is the indoor karting chain built on all-electric karts — zero emissions, professionally designed indoor tracks, and karts that can reach up to 45 mph. Orlando's location carries that formula to International Drive's attractions corridor.

Watch: K1 Speed Orlando, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Lose Weight by Racing?! Introducing the K1 Speed Go-Kart Diet!

K1 Speed

K1 Speed's Ryan sets out to answer a question every karter has wondered: can you actually lose weight by racing go-karts? He cites a study that put indoor electric kart racers on heart-rate monitors and found sessions burning around 350 calories, then builds his own 'go-kart diet' — stacking short races several mornings a week before his local track opens. It is a fun, honest look at how physical indoor karting really is: steering effort, heat and adrenaline leave drivers drenched.

Key takeaways
  • A study he cites measured roughly 350 calories burned per karting session
  • Drivers leave sweating and out of breath — karting is a real workout
  • His plan: stack short races three to four mornings a week

Attractions - The Show - iFly Orlando; I-Drive NASCAR; latest news - May 18, 2017

Attractions Magazine

This May 2017 episode of Attractions Magazine's The Show sends reporters to two International Drive attractions. At the brand-new iFLY Orlando, Andy and Alysa tour the only iFLY facility with two vertical wind tunnels and try indoor skydiving — the freefall portion of a skydive with no plane and no parachute, open to ages 3 and up. At I-Drive NASCAR, Roy and Tharin race electric karts that hit about 45 mph on a quarter-mile indoor track with no gas fumes, next to the venue's 60-game arcade, bowling and track-view restaurant.

Key takeaways
  • iFLY's wind tunnel recreates freefall only — flyers as young as 3 can go, with a 300 lb limit (sit it out for neck, back or heart problems or a past shoulder dislocation)
  • First flights run about two minutes in the tunnel and it's a genuine workout; instructors fly with you and teach basic moves
  • I-Drive NASCAR's electric karts hit ~45 mph indoors — and the racing tip is to never drift: brake or lift for tight turns, accelerate out

K1 Speed - the World's Leading Indoor Go-Karting Center!

K1 Speed

K1 Speed's official 30-second introduction to its indoor karting: all-electric karts with zero emissions that can reach up to 45 mph, raced on professionally designed indoor tracks.

The workout nobody warns you about

K1's own deep-dive on this page starts from a study that put indoor electric kart racers on heart-rate monitors and measured roughly 350 calories burned per session — then builds a tongue-in-cheek 'go-kart diet' out of stacking short races several mornings a week. Joke aside, the underlying point is real and every karter recognizes it: drivers climb out sweating and out of breath. Indoor karting is a workout wearing a racing suit.

A note on footage

Orlando karting video is scarce for a structural reason: K1 runs house cameras rather than letting drivers film, so the archive leans on K1's official films plus the Attractions Magazine episode on this page — which pairs its iFLY visit with racing at this location's predecessor, I-Drive NASCAR, whose electric karts hit the same 45 mph class. The racing lineage on this stretch of I-Drive runs deep.

Who it's for

Competitive groups and teens who want real speed with no weather risk — and anyone pairing it with iFLY and the I-Drive corridor in one outing.

Sources: the three videos on this page — K1's workout feature and official introduction, plus the Attractions Magazine I-Drive episode — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

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