{"id":170062,"date":"2026-02-26T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:35:25","slug":"t4-kartplex-in-palmetto-offers-mini-fueled-adrenaline-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170062\/","title":{"rendered":"T4 KartPlex in Palmetto offers mini-fueled adrenaline rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMETTO, Fla. \u2014 There is a place in Palmetto where mini-machines roar.\u00a0Welcome to the ethanol-fueled fun at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.t4kartplex.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T4 KartPlex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are professional go karts and go about 45 miles an hour, which is the fastest the state of Florida will let us go,\u201d said Andy Haase.<\/p>\n<p>As General Manager Andy Haase explains \u2014 the pedal controls are elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Green for go.<\/p>\n<p>Red for stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have any other luxuries. There\u2019s no cupholder, there\u2019s no air-conditioning,\u201d said Haase.<\/p>\n<p>And once you turn 12, there\u2019s no stopping you.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-turn, .6-mile loop is yours, along with safety gear.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the advice for novices?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst things first, always take it slow,\u201d said Haase.<\/p>\n<p>Karts are where many professional drivers begin their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it\u2019s a little hard to go fast and stay on the track, and just as scary avoiding a spin out while pushing the kart to the limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adrenaline and sore arms await.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMETTO, Fla. \u2014 There is a place in Palmetto where mini-machines roar.\u00a0Welcome to the ethanol-fueled fun at\u00a0T4 KartPlex.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1595,7150,8274,4092,274,104,28,7151,115,139,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,106,278,7148,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-170062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-arts-entertainment","9":"tag-app-florida-on-a-tankful","10":"tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","11":"tag-app-things-to-do","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-florida-on-a-tankful","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-st-pete","19":"tag-st-pete-headlines","20":"tag-st-pete-news","21":"tag-st-petersburg","22":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","23":"tag-st-petersburg-news","24":"tag-tampa","25":"tag-things-to-do","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-virginia-johnson","28":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}