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$18 Go Karting In PAKISTAN🇵🇰
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$18 Go Karting In PAKISTAN🇵🇰
The plan was a theme park. They were refused at the gate for being two men rather than a family — Harry notes it is the second time that has happened to them — and after asking the manager and getting a straight no, he says rules are rules and they leave.
The replacement is a proper go-kart circuit in Lahore: about $18 a head for a fifteen-minute session, karts he is told run at 50 mph and believes it, timed on best lap rather than raced, bookable on arrival. He has karted in England and says these were considerably faster than anything he’d driven.
Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles; amounts and names the transcript leaves ambiguous are marked unverified.
Key moments
- [01:10] Tuk-tuks would be illegal in Britain — emissions first, safety second — which is Mac’s explanation and Harry’s excuse for wanting one.
- [01:42] The driving, quantified: three or four genuine near-misses per journey by his count, and two or three actual crashes witnessed in a fortnight, including a motorbike flipped in the road.
- [01:42] An army checkpoint takes Mac’s passport details and not Harry’s. Harry’s own reading, said on camera: probably because Mac is American. He offers it as an observation rather than a complaint.
- [02:12] Joyland is families only. They ask the manager, explain they are tourists making a video, and are told no. Harry respects it without argument and asks his viewers to suggest somewhere else.
- [03:45] The circuit — long, with awkward bends, and enough of a surprise that he crashes into the barrier on the opening lap.
- [06:51] 50 mph, and he believes it. He was told not to take a GoPro onto the kart, took it anyway, and says he regretted it: one hand on the wheel at that speed was genuinely dangerous.
- [08:53] The result: third, on a best lap of 1:17, from a session scored on fastest lap rather than finishing position. Mac’s kart failed after a collision and he was given a replacement that kept bogging down.
- [11:28] The practical summary: about $18 each, fifteen minutes, book when you arrive, pay again if you want another run. He recommends it and calls it a little bit dangerous in the same breath. He thinks the venue is called the Garrison Sports Arena (from video – unverified — he says he isn’t sure).