Go-karting is a footstep stone to bigger things in international motor sport. Even as the motor racing culture prevalent down south took over 40 years to create a Narain Karthikeyan, we are sure that go-karting will do the trick to spring a dozen Narain Karthikeyan in the next few. We have always had the talent but didn't have the equipment or the enthusiasm to get involved.

In an age where the normal cosmopolitan Indian family boasts of cable television and at least one or two family members do get to watch the Formula One Grand Prix races live through the course of the season, go-karting can be said to have come to India at the right time. Weighing the profit of the sporting aspect of go-karting is always a most pleasurable chore but there is an even more inspiring social cause which we see in this activity. Today's youngsters have a new cause to indulge themselves in a most clean and wholesome manner rather than whiling away their free time on pursuits like pool, pin ball games and such. There is a whole new meaning to their creativity and also a channel of expression which they can identify with.

On the topic of the sport though, there is some apprehension. The go-karting circuits have all been made to give a taste of the game to the uninitiated. That's very good. But now these very same folks are clamoring for the sporting aspect. Sadly there is quite a load of grey because of there being no karting federation or any framing of rules. As always the FMSCI in its infinite wisdom is yet busy studying the karting scenario and has yet to frame rules for the sport. We sincerely hope the FMSCI plays no role in this form of the sport and lets those who have set up the tracks to form a national karting federation. Indian motorsport can do with this sort of an approach. This highlights the role karting has played in the careers of some of the world's best Grand Prix drivers. We seek your feedback to make this form of motor sport a major success.