TeamSport Preston: indoor karting on the edge of the city

The city's karting entry, and the one most often searched simply as 'go karting Preston'.

TeamSport Preston is the indoor go-karting venue in the city. Karting is one of the few indoor activities that needs one large undivided space, which is why venues of this kind sit in industrial or edge-of-centre buildings, and never in retail units.

It sits alongside the other commercial indoor activity venues in this directory: Laser Quest, Flip Out, Energi, Ninja Age, Lakeside bowling and The Level.

The full list is on the activities sheet.

Why this sits where it does

Karting asks for more than any other format in this group: floor area a lane or a trampoline grid never needs, a hard surface, and ventilation for engines running indoors. Those push it away from retail sheds and towards industrial units, which is why karting is the format most likely to sit on an estate rather than a park.

Indoor karting has the most demanding requirements of the whole group: a circuit needs floor area that a bowling lane or a trampoline grid does not, plus ventilation and a hard surface. That pushes it towards industrial units, away from retail sheds, and it is the reason karting is the format most likely to sit on an estate.

Getting there

An industrial estate is a car address by definition — the roads are laid out for vans and the pavements stop where the units start. Karting also runs late, which is after estate bus routes have finished for the day. Anyone without a car is better off treating this entry as a fixture to be driven to rather than an afternoon to be reached.

The free alternative: the Guild Wheel

The free equivalent for the same appetite is the Guild Wheel, the 21-mile loop around the city, joinable at any point and ridden in either direction. It is the other circuit in Preston, and the only one that costs nothing.

Within the category the adult end is karting and trampolining; the middle is the assault-course format; the youngest is soft play. Cinemas cut across all of it, and the activities index sets out the whole set.