Speed Raceway

This is horrible I went with my friends and we had fun but they ruined it at the end. We did 2 laps because it was so expensive to do more the staff members are horrible by changing your speed while someone is next to you so you crash and you have to pay money to «fix» your problems but they don’t fix it if you look at the carts. It hurts bad when you crash and I think they want you to crash so they get money yet they don’t use the money to fix they use it to add to there pay check!

My husband has been to this raceway several times now and absolutely loves it! You have to purchase a «license» to drive there, and I think it’s good for a year or so, then you purchase races. I believe when the boys go they do 3 races for $ 50. They rave about how much fun it is, so next time I plan on going to!

We’ve been to Speed Raceway one other time and thought it was fun, so for my son’s 9^th birthday we decided to have his party there. It’s pricey, but most fun birthday parties are. You get 2 races plus the party room for $ 45/​child. I would’ve rated higher, but I think the biggest flaw is that the staff did nothing to make my son feel special or to give him preferential treatment (being the first in a car, etc). There was a cute sign with his name welcoming his guests to his party when you first walk in, but that was it. When they called the kids to line up for helmets/​cars, he ended up in the second to last car. Although they stated that it’s not about who comes in first, but who had the fastest lap, if you know ⁸⁄₉ year old boys, it’s definitely about being in front! :) The second race he ended up in the last car and I decided to say something. I nicely mentioned that maybe the birthday boy should be in the first car, and they were happy to oblige… I just wish they would’ve thought of it themselves. I hope that if they read this they change their systems a little. The birthday person should ALWAYS be given preferential treatment! (called up first — for helmet, car, and anything else). Other than that, it was a fun place.

If your looking for a place with long waits, bad staff, and idiot racers, come on here!
First off, a guy rammed into me and another person, on purpose, trying to win the race. When i spun out and hit the wall, the staff didnt handle the situation properly, saying it was my fault that i spun out and if it happened again they will pull me out of the race. The wait was long too, will not be coming again.

Overall, I like that the cars are electric. No fumes = No headache. Prices are high for the amount of time spent on the track, but it seems to be on par with the other karting facility. Go on a discount day.
Came on a Tuesday for the two for one. It’s still $ 20 per person (for two races). Like someone else said, you can do a lot of other stuff for $ 20. The race doesn’t last long at all, as that $ 20 buys you 10 – 12 laps depending on how fast (or slow) you and the others drive.
The karts are all electric and the employees have ultimate control of them. They can throttle the karts if they need to. Depending on who and how many people you race with, this can happen quite frequently. It just seems like a lot of money to spend for about 5 mins of race time, especially if you don’t come on the discount day.
Having been to both Unser and here, I do like that setup of the track here better. The layout is more fun to drive. I also like that there are no «membership» fees to pay, no fumes from gas powered karts, and friendlier staff. The facility is also cleaner and more open. Unser karts are slightly better to drive but because of their poor track layout, I’d rather go here.

I’ve been here and the Unser facility in Denver. The Unser facility is FAR better. Both times we did team events. Let me start with the issues: mostly unhelpful staff, cars that are inconsistently maintained, WAY to aggressive on the «slow down» control to the point of making the event barely better than the Disneyland Autopia, not running a real race for a team event!?! and just doing fast lap times. The only positive is the lack of exhaust due to the fact the cars are electric. This isn’t a gas/​electric knock as I’ve done excellent electric facilities (mostly K2 in SoCal) and they run an excellent setup.
My suggestion is if this is for the kiddies, take them here. If you really want a professional, well run venue or are more into the speed/​performance of indoor karting, go to Unser.

I agree with the writings of the other reviewers; all seem to be accurate. It’s a safe, fun, green, albeit somewhat expensive family fun center.
They are hosting Alive at 25 classes… how apropos!

It is a thrill if upgrading from bumper cars!!!
It is a good idea to have the karts electrical BUT that takes close to 90% of the fun away, until the command to the driver becomes more available, these will be second in my liking to the real gas powered Honda engined karts.
First time here, maybe I need to give it another chance? (not me…)
Price should be less to get more drivers in, wattage should be increased to give more return for the dollars «we» pay…

We came here for a birthday party so our experience was slightly different than had we just shown up to race. They had set aside a party room in the back for us and allowed us to bring our own food & drink and everything for the celebration. They provided soft drinks and made sure that they were well stocked.
When we arrived, we all registered and paid our fee to race — which because we were part of a group, the fee was $ 30 for one race. More than what it is normally apparently! They arranged it so that we got to race with others in our party rather than with just other random people there.
There were 6 racers on the track at a time when we went and we were given a detailed overview of how to operate the cars and fitted with helmets. They give you a warm up lap and then they increase the speed on all the cars. If anyone is not playing nicely, they can slow that individual car down. If anyone spins out or has a wreck, all the cars are stopped until everyone is settled and moving in the right direction again.
For our $ 30 we got 12 laps — if you drive slower, you get fewer laps in. At the end you get a printout with people in your race and your placement.
If you don’t want to race, there is air hockey, ping pong, and a few other games.
The cars are all electric so there are no stinky fumes which is nice. Be sure to check your brakes well as one person in our group received a car that had a faulty brake pedal.
If you really like racing, you might opt for the 3 races for $ 50 plan … because while one race was a lot of fun, I’m not sure if it was $ 30 worth of fun for less than 15 minutes.

I think the price here is really a huge factor. For $ 20 two can go to a movie and be entertained for two hours, or they can come here and one with a coupon can be entertained for hardly a half hour. There are a couple of things here to keep you busy I guess (games, a food station). We were here on a Saturday right before dinner and we didn’t have to wait more than 10 min to race so I can’t complain about that like everyone else.
I guess my real big complaint was that we had some asshole on the track with us both times that kept taking his belt off and opening his helmet and the workers here didn’t deal with the situation appropriately. We kept getting interrupted in the first race and they let the guy go back out again even though he was driving like a jerk and bumping into people.
The last reportable irritation was that my father in-​law who is in his 60’s decided he wasn’t physically up for a second race but they didn’t offer a refund or anything for the money that was already spent. The people in charge of the races just took him off the list and that was it.

Woohoo! Adrenaline rush! I loved it so much, I raced 3 heats!
My friends suggested we go race as a Saturday night alternative to drinking. It is $ 20/​heat (11 – 12 laps). Go on a Monday or Tuesday for 2 heats for the price of 1. Definitely worth driving two since you’re just getting the hang of it on the first.
We were told we had an hour wait until our first heat, which allowed us to get familiarized with the track, strategy, and air hockey.
We were set at 30mph top speed on those first two, and they bumped us up to 50mph on our last. And that really blew up my skirt! (j/​k). By the way, best to wear pants and sneaks – no heels. Don’t worry about the hair either, it’s going under a helmet.
This place would be great to rent for a group or birthday party. They have an airstream trailer selling snacks and some arcade games to keep you entertained while waiting for the next heat. Visitor seating is track-​side so you can watch crashes and spin-​outs.
They have a huge screen for lap times and print outs following your heat so you know if you’ve improved, and how badly you kicked your friend’s butts. Check in together to make sure you’re all racing in the same heat.
The employees did seem to be pretty attentive to the course, and changed me out of a kart before racing when they saw a huge chunk in the tire.
It’s addicting! And close to home. Danger!

There were 11 of us in separate vehicles when we left Jabo’s BBQ after a fantastic meal. Speed Raceway was less than five miles away so it would be a quick drive, right? Well, not for everyone.
Some people thought they knew where it was and other people followed them. You know how that goes. They were in Parker when they decided to pull over and consult a map. I wish I had a nickel for every time my navigation system saved me from pulling over at a gas station, lost. Well, maybe more than a nickel. Needless to say, I beat everyone there by about 20 minutes and I left last from the restaurant.
Our evening of competitive driving was off to a roaring start!
Let’s just say that the place isn’t that easy to find. But once you find the correct warehouse there is plenty of parking outside. You go in the front door and follow instructions to register on one of the computers they have set up. You can pre-​register on their Web site if you’re feeling motivated.
Once you’re signed up you walk around the corner to pay and get set up. They recorded which of us were in the same group, and that meant that we were always racing together. Perfect!
We went on a Saturday night and it was pretty dead. A couple of groups of adults were racing, but there were no kids. Well, everyone working there looks like Justin Bieber but none of the ladies there was young enough to appreciate it. Still, the kids did all right getting us set up and helping the old farts figure out how to work the carts.
They gave us a «head sock» (that’s what we were calling them, anyway) that we threw away after our race. Then we all picked a helmet and were assigned cars. Some people brought their own helmets and even brought racing gloves. Apparently this is more serious than I had originally thought.
I’m short, and I had to scoot the seat up. My tall friends had their knees sticking out a bit but they were comfortable. You start out slowly and then VROOOOOOMMMM!!!
You’re racing for the fastest lap, not for position. So it doesn’t really matter if you come in first or if you pass someone. The one who has the fastest lap out of all 12 laps wins.
Honestly, it was a blast! There is no exhaust smell because they’re electric, and the whole thing is in a big warehouse. Even when we were done we had a good time just watching strangers race. «Go Plaid Shirt Guy!» we yelled, clapping each time Orange Shirt Girl went by.
A few in the group had a second race, and that was fun to watch. No one got hurt, and we didn’t see how it would even be possible to get seriously injured. They kept it all really safe.
There are a few video games and air hockey tables. Bring change for the pop machines. Come have some laughs!

I’d like to rate this a 4, but I can’t. We went for a company event and I had a blast racing, but here’s why I can’t highly rate this place:
1. The staff didn’t seem to really care.
2. The air hockey table took my money, the employee blew me off, never gave me my money back, didn’t fix the machine, or anything.
3. The employees didn’t pay attention to details, and confused names. Then they wouldn’t or couldn’t correct the problem.
4. !!! They don’t take bad cars of the track even though they had plenty more. There were bad cars that they just kept putting people in. My last race I got a car that pulled hard to the right and was incredibly rough going straight. That left me at the end feeling really bad about the experience. The employees didn’t really seem to care.
This could be a great place, but the customer service just was too poor.

My brother in law and I went over here for a race, it was easy to get in and get set up to race! The electric go kart is pretty fast! We had a lot of fun, I think it’s more for adults but I’m sure kids are welcome too, might have to check if there is a height your kid has to be? or age?

With family in town this week who all love go-​kart racing we thought what could be better than hitting up Speed Raceway for some Monday 2for1 racing! 2 races for $ 20? Yeah, that’s a great rate. Unfortunately, it turned out almost anything would have been better than going here.
We got to Speed Raceway around 1, and by the time we waited in line and got registered on the computers, and paid, it was probably 20 past one. It was labor day, there were a few birthday parties going on, and of course given the two for one special that meant there were a lot of people there. So, we waited.
And we waited.
And we waited.
We had been there over an hour, and had not had a single race. At the beginning the woman working the register told us that it would be a little bit, but she never mentioned anything this incredible. Time and time again as they were calling the next racers to their cars, we thought ‘We Have to be next.’ Time and time again, we were wrong. Due to a few recognizable names, we noticed that at least one person had three races before we even had one. This is an unacceptable practice. At this point, noticing that they weren’t cycling their races properly, I went to one of the 16 year olds they employ to be the face of their business. I hate myself for pointing out their age, because it makes me feel like I’m an old man telling them to get off my lawn, but it factors in. Upon asking when our race would occur, he told me that our race wasn’t scheduled until 3:50 — a full hour and 30 minutes away from the time I had asked, and a full 2 hours and 35 minutes from when we purchased our races. We could not believe our ears, and I cannot fathom what abortion of communication and efficiency could allow this to occur. I speak from experience — as dorky as it may be, go karting is a passion of mine, and having experienced many different tracks I’ve gained an experts perspective on what factors contribute to a track running smoothly. Speed Raceway has nearly none of these.
First, the staff at the desk didn’t communicate just how long it would be before our race. We probably would’ve walked right back out the door had we heard it would take so long, but at least we wouldn’t have wasted a good portion of our afternoon before realizing that we’d have to waste even more watching the same group of 9 year olds get to race three times before we got our track time.
Second, their track staff is unimaginably inefficient. You’re able to keep races running smoothly when you call the next race to the track as soon as the current race hits the track. At Speed Raceway, they seem to have a system that’s more akin to waiting until there are 2 laps left in the current race before calling the next race, which means that you’re losing a ton of time in between races, and things are disorganized in the transition where some drivers are getting out of karts, while other people are milling around getting their safety briefing and kart tutorial.
In addition, while insurance policy probably dictates that a safety briefing is necessary before every race, you could save a ton of time by having people view the safety briefing immediately after they pay, before they race. Maybe by video, in a separate room. That way you can keep an extra track worker on hand to stand at the far end of the track who is able to help when a car gets spun around and can’t get righted, especially when one of the 9 year olds who has no idea how to handle anything with a motor gets spun around and can’t figure out what the heck that switch that says «reverse» on the steering column might be for; instead the track worker who’s running the flags has to press a button on his remote control, stop all the cars, then walk out on to the track to fix the righted kart. Thus backing things up, and making everyone wait.
On top of this, a system where some people, regardless of being in a birthday party at the track, can race multiple times before any other people get in to a race, is asinine. There were multiple groups there who each had more than once race before we got our first in, and some of them were in line right in front of us. Again, this is unacceptable. When you’ve got a party and people in line, you need to cycle races.
So they wait too long to call people to their cars, perform an inefficient safety briefing and car tutorial and waste far too much time in between races. This hurts the volume of people they can get through the track, and creates a pretty poor customer experience.
I’m sure that some of their kinks will get worked out in time, but they’ve been open for quite a while now, and you’d think they’d have a better idea of how to handle customers in an efficient and fast manner. And in a sport where tenths of a second can be the difference between winning and losing, you’d think they have a little more emphasis on making sure people can get out there and, well, Speed on the Raceway.
But at least they gave us a refund.

This facility is amazing! I’ve managed to use it 3 times so far even before its Grand Opening on May 1^st. There is nothing else like it anywhere in Colorado. 12 lap races go for $ 20/​each, but going with a package is a much better way to go… you can get 3 races for $ 50.
The race track is windy with some pretty aggressive turns that you really need to watch out for. There are two different straightaways on the course that allow you to really get the go-​kart moving (around 50MPH on the adult carts). Personally, I prefer the electric carts over the gas powered for a couple reasons: 1) With it being an indoor facility the carts are quiet enough that people can still hold a conversation away from the track 2) you won’t have a headache after you leave from noise and pollution and 3) I thought the carts had more pick-​up and torque than any gas cart I’ve ever driven. They also have carts designed specifically for kids, which is great for a family night out… beats spending $ 100 for 5 people to go to the movies on a Friday night.
The facility and its staff are very well trained and organized which makes the set-​up time between races very minimal (2 – 3 minutes tops). They’ve also got a concession stand, pool tables, and video games to allow you to make a whole night out of it.
I definitely recommend this facility and will be using it frequently.