This is the first time coming here this year. Autobahn has changed their name to K1 speed as of January 9th when they bought out autobahn. I was worried that some old races that I hard would not be honored after the buy out. Shout out to Isaiah the young man was very helpful in transferring my old races into the new system. They did honor my old races. I was very happy about that. So we did 4 races two each. The price of races has about doubled since I last been. 1 race about 30$ 2 races about 50$ 3 races about 70$. Since we came in a week day. The were not many people and the was wasn't too bad. These kart were super fast. One instance my car seemed to break on its own. But overall we had fun. They give us stats on our performance so you can see how you did against other competitors. I'll came back again. read more

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If you think this place is insanely overpriced, you are correct. If you saw the pics of people with food on the website and saw this menu https://www.k1speed.com/paddock-lounge.html and assume you can have lunch, you are wrong. This place has bags of chips. After moving past those 2 smacks to the face, I made the financially disastrous mistake of purchasing 2 Speed Passes: an "annual pass", 2 races, and a t-shirt for my son and me. After my money was gone I was treated to a delightful cocktail of fun-and-soul-sucking, corporate-liability legalese blended smoothly with a customer service style so cold and heartless it would make the Department of Motor Vehicles blush. The cocktail is called "Read the Fine Print Loser", is served frozen, garnished with a couple of the bartender's nose hairs, and poured directly onto your lap. The front desk staff are so robotic and rigid I wouldn't have believed they were human if not for the smirks on their faces as they treated me like a fly to be swatted away. My son and I were super disappointed after we learned we couldn't drive on the same track because they can't put junior carts and adult carts together. I offered to drive a junior cart, and the guys running the carts entertained the idea, maybe just to watch me squeeze my 49 year old butt into a junior cart. We were strapped in and ready to go, temporarily delusional about the strength of human reason, until a voice came over the cart guy's walkie talkie: "somebody from corporate" says nobody over 18 can drive a junior cart. "Well," I suggest, "it's literally only my son and I here, how about I just follow him in an adult cart?" "Oh no, we can't let an adult and junior cart on the same track." It was literally JUST ME AND MY SON in the entire place since everybody else in the state of Maryland is smart enough not to come here. I took a deep breath and calmed down, since I understand lawyers run the world and this place must have significant liability insurance. I did my 2 races against a couple strangers, my son did 1 then didn't want to do any more. He's 8, so fine. I asked the staff to let me use his remaining credit. "Oh no we can't transfer them" said the heartless robots at the front desk, an obvious ploy to make you come back, which definitely won't be So for $147 dollars, we got 15 minutes of racing and 2 t shirts, which we'll now use to wipe up the next time my dog pukes in the house. I hate you K1. read more

They have go karts, and that's the only positive thing I will say abt this place. The staff upfront are quite rude. We had a wait a long time to get the race started, and when we did, some of the people in the group were rowdy and crashed into others for "fun". I have to say that the staff on the track were very nice and prioritize safety. The track itself is quite small for the number of go karts that they allow in a race. Would not go here again. read more

We had to wait for 50 minutes after they told us 15 minutes. We want to use both lanes and after we waited they told us :"for the second lane you will have to wait another 50 minutes". I've been in this place so many times and I'm so disappointed ! read more

Drove in traffic to drive in traffic at a go kart track... This place is fine if you want to play bumper cars with your friends it seems but this is not the place if you expect to hit hot laps. The price hike also meant that 3 races set you back $85. If I wanted to sit behind slow drivers that won't let you pass then I would have driven on the highway at rush hour for free. What's the point of having a flag for passing if they don't care if you move or not. Insane that the speed of the kart was capped for one of my entire races as well. I used to go to the establishment when it was autobahn but they have completely lost my business at this point. If you want to go fast for $85, pray that they don't screw around with you like what I experienced. As a race enthusiast this was utterly disappointing. read more