Lightning Karts

Lightning Karts Adelaide based karting store. Online store ships Australia wide and to New Zealand. Lightning karts started on a small scale.
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Lightning karts was established in 1992 but has a racing history dating much further back. Both Mark & Michael were born into racing with their father Dennis racing at the time. Dennis started racing in the 70’s originating with circle track racing at Adelaide International Raceway, Drag Racing and then moving into speedway building one of the first tube chassis super sedans in Australia. Moving i

nto a showroom at Prospect, Michael ran the shop during the day leaving engine work for after hours work at their workshop. As the shop grew it became time for more help. Mark started working at the shop between University lectures and before long started working full time at the shop. The Lightning Karts Race team is very passionate about their racing. This year they will participate at around 46 race meetings between Sprintcar, Bitumen Karts and Dirt Karts. The first weekend in September this year saw Michael Racing dirt karts in Perth, Mark at Willowbank for the Rotax Nationals and Dennis and Jamie racing dirt karts in South Australia. All this racing helps them develop and test any new ideas and keep up with the latest changes around Australia.

Congratulations to Chase Crouch for bringing home the win in the Junior Light class over the weekend. Chase comfortably ...
13/04/2026

Congratulations to Chase Crouch for bringing home the win in the Junior Light class over the weekend. Chase comfortably won by a quarter of a lap in our new Veloce Junior Evo prototype chassis

12/04/2026

RACE DAY // Adelaide Dirt Kart Club - Lucky 7

15/03/2026

JKC // Round 2 - Adelaide Dirt Kart Club

2016 - we aren’t sure how that was 10 years ago.. 😂🙈
15/01/2026

2016 - we aren’t sure how that was 10 years ago.. 😂🙈

23/12/2025

With the 2025 racing season wrapped up - we will re-open on Tuesday, January 6th 2026. Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and a safe new year!

10/12/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lightning Karts co-founder Michael Burford..
Our original ‘Racing Dad’, have a great day!
This video has been a work in progress since 2023 🤣

05/12/2025

2025 season highlights

04/12/2025

Australian Independent Dirt Karting Association better known as AIDKA has had a re-brand. It will now be known as Dirt Karting of Australia. Today, they released their new website. This is the first stage of their new look..

29/11/2025

BTS // Doing a last minute reed change on the A1 200 cc Open Kart for Chad Rodda at the Western Australian Dirt Kart Titles in Busselton

27/11/2025
23/11/2025

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Address

125 Main North Road
Adelaide, SA
5083

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 11am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 11am - 5:30pm
Thursday 11am - 6:30pm
Friday 11am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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