Site is on the right track

Wheels within wheels — an appropriate new use has been found for part of the giant, old Cork Ford factory — it’s to host whizzing karts, on a brand new indoors track.

Ever before the Marina site’s era of manufacturing slow-moving Fordson tractors and faster saloon cars, the Leeside site had been a racecourse: now, those two previous uses get combined in one competitive kart-racing investment.

Moving to open their second Irish indoor karting track at the Marina Commercial Park is the Limerick-based National Kart Centre, which claims to already operate the world’s largest indoor track.