Meanwhile virtually all the kart tracks I have visited have been willing to accept dogs, until recently when some have started to get antsy.
So, one has to wonder whether this is part of the increasing phobia against dogs, or indeed all animals, typified by groups like PETA, or whether it is part of the determination by some people that karting is the first step into the "MotorSport Business" and therefore has to adopt the same attitudes at tracks, as if karting was going to attract crowds of tens of thousands of spectators.
In some cases, it is clear that the instruction is more about personal opinion than safety. I've never seen a dog loose on the track at a kart meet in the last 25 years and sometimes there have been almost as many dogs as uninvolved spectators, but there are loads of people who don't like dogs on principle.
Yes, there's a case not to have animals at a track where there are thousands of spectators. 10,000 dogs at the British Grand Prix would be a recipe for disaster, 15 or so dogs at a kart track hasn't been, as far as I can tell.
But I do know people who have stopped karting / not gone to a meeting because a track has banned dogs and they cannot afford the extra £40 or so per weekend that it costs to have them boarded.
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