Daytona Sandown Park

Layouts

Indy Circuit
Length: 450m
Turns: 6

Club Circuit
Length: 400m
Turns: 4

Alternate Layout
Length: 900m
Turns: 8
EKS Lap Record: 45.870 by Jamie Tiley-Gooden

GP Layout
Length: 900m
Turns: 9
EKS Lap Record: 50.081 by Olly Smith (damp)

History

The clubhouse, car park and workshop at Sandown Park pictured in 1990 whilst they were still horse racing facilities.

Origins

After previously owning an indoor kart circuit in Weybridge, Andrew Crighton initially built a temporary kart circuit in the mid-1990s on a section of tarmac inside the Sandown Park Racecourse which is nowadays used as the Daytona Sandown Park car park.

The original circuit was created using barriers from the previously owned indoor circuit whilst the surrounding old horse stables were converted into the clubhouse and workshop which are still used to this day.

An owner-driver prokart race in the late 1990s

Creation of the modern circuit

Soon after, the permanent kart circuit now known as Daytona Sandown Park was built in the late-1990s. As pictured the circuit hosted both hire-karting and owner-driver karting during its early years with the circuit having its own owner-driver kart club.

All of the corners around the circuit had to be resurfaced due to the grip of the owner-driver karts damaging the tarmac, hence why the corners are a different colour to the straights in the below satellite photo from 2003.

Daytona Sandown Park pictured in 2003

Daytona Motorsport era

Daytona Motorsport, who already owned Daytona Milton Keynes as well as a number of indoor circuits, purchased the circuit in 2001 from its original owner. The layout of the circuit has remain unchanged since its creation however Daytona Motorsport have since resurfaced all of the straights.

Daytona Sandown Park has continued to grow in popularity throughout its 30-year history and it is now one of the busiest outdoor hire-karting circuits in the UK. It is the annual host of the Damon Hill Karting Challenge and is regularly visited by famous racing drivers including Grand Prix winners Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri who visited in 2023.