
The Pit Indoor Kart Racing
Clip: Season 22 Episode 8 | 4m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The Pit in Mooresville offers exciting indoor kart racing for all levels and ages.
The Pit in Mooresville offers exciting indoor kart racing for all levels and ages, as well as axe-throwing, laser tag, and more.
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The Pit Indoor Kart Racing
Clip: Season 22 Episode 8 | 4m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The Pit in Mooresville offers exciting indoor kart racing for all levels and ages, as well as axe-throwing, laser tag, and more.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[upbeat music] [floor squeaking] [go-karts whizzing] [transition whooshing] - So we are at The Pit Indoor Go-Kart Racing in Morrisville, North Carolina.
- [Narrator] The Pit might be the name, but racing is definitely not all they offer.
- We opened in 2007, we were just a track, and then we expanded in 2008.
[children faintly speaking] - It kind of exploded to entertainment everywhere.
So we have more than just go-karts, we have go-karts and laser tag, we have bumper cars, ax throwing, escape rooms, an arcade, birthday parties, huge events, so it's more than just go-karting.
- [Narrator] But go-karts are the star attraction.
- Definitely the go-kart racing.
- Oh, we came here to have fun with the kids today.
Do a little go-karting.
- Of course, the go-karting.
[go-karts whizzing] [go-kart engine rumbling] We have go-karting for all the ages, whether you're three years old or 97 and you wanna do go-karting, we have go-karts for you.
- [Narrator] Here are the facts, there are 70,000 square feet of track, making it one of the largest single indoor cart tracks in the country.
- The track itself, if you stretch it out, it's 1/3 of a mile long.
There's 20 turns, so you get a good workout in there, oh yeah.
- [Narrator] The width of the track is 20 feet all the way around, with a 22-foot-wide straightaway.
Best of all, the carts are fast.
- There's none that's fast as these go-karts here for the adults, but they also have three different stages, most go-kart tracks you go to don't have the stages for the younger crowd.
So they love riding go-kart, that's why we come here.
[laughing] - [Narrator] The age range of adult drivers is 16 and up.
Youth drivers on this track are eight to 15 years of age, and speeds are set accordingly.
- So the adults go up to 45 miles per hour, and then the youth go up to 35.
- They are gas powered, we do have good ventilation in here.
[laughing] Most places around us do have electric go-karts, so we kinda stand out more in ways that we have gas-powered go-karts.
- [Narrator] Gear is provided, but you'll need closed-toed shoes.
After that, you're set.
- [Rileigh] So you get eight minutes out on the track.
You can do anywhere from two laps to 10 laps.
It just depends on how comfortable you are and how fast you like to go - [Narrator] From the track, you can head upstairs for everything else.
- Yeah, so whenever the customers come inside, they go upstairs, they go to the cashiers, and depending on which package that you do, so you can just get individual tickets, but we also have different packages.
And then you get a ticket with your name on it and the activity, and then you'll just head to the activity.
- [Narrator] Activities like ax throwing.
- Oh, I recently found out about it about three years ago, [laughing] and we've been coming since.
[laughing] - You can either do that for 30 minutes or you can do it for an hour.
- [Narrator] That's if your arms are up for it.
- Oh yeah, you get a good arm workout.
- [Narrator] They also have go-karts upstairs for children three to nine, plus bumper cars, escape rooms, and blacklight mini golf.
- [Parent] There you go.
- [Rileigh] We have our laser tag arcade and birthday parties.
- So in a Saturday, we do birthday parties, that would have about three during a day, whether they have racing and laser tag, and we just coordinate with the parents.
- [Narrator] There's also opportunities on site for adults to practice team building.
- We have meeting rooms, so if you wanna come in for your meeting, we have that.
We have a very large banquet room, we do facility rentals.
Other than the whole facility, if you just wanna come in and rent out the track for a couple hours, if you wanna do the laser tag for a couple hours, you are able to do that as well.
- [Narrator] The Pit also has concessions, so you can refresh during your day of fun.
- Whoo.
- [Narrator] And considering everything is under one roof, you can visit rain or shine, cold or hot, just about every day of the year.
- Yes, all you gotta do is just buy a ticket, show up.
[laughing] [go-karts whizzing] - The Pit Indoor Cart Racing is at 346 East Plaza Drive in Mooresville, and it's open daily.
For more information, give them a call at 704-799-3470, or visit them online at meetatthepit.com.
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