“We started looking for a suitable site in Orlando around 2011,” says Harmann. Orlando is a market that the Andretti Karting team knows well, having lived and worked there for many years. And now we are going to Orlando, and the future.” It took a while to get all the systems and the right people to help us grow it, and it wasn’t until 2014 that we decided to take the facilities nationwide, which is when we built our Marietta facility in Georgia. By then, Mario, Michael, Marco and the rest of the Andretti family were involved.

“In 2001 we opened the first corporate facility in Roswell, Georgia. Its success gave rise to the idea of building an indoor FEC with a corporate environment. “We decided to build the first facility in Melbourne, Florida in 1999: an outdoor facility with go-karts, video games, miniature golf, bumper boats, a couple of rides and laser tag.” “We hit it off, developing a friendship very quickly, and the idea was born to build an FEC with his name,” recalls Hamann.

The two had raced in NASCAR and the Ind圜ar series. This was where, just one year later, he met John Andretti, nephew of racing legend Mario Andretti. Working his way up through the ranks at the Medieval Times dinner show, he moved to Daytona in 1995 to open the SpeedPark speedway. Born in Columbia, he moved to school in the States in 1988, graduating in business from New York, before moving to Orlando in 1989. From jousting to racingĮdison Hamann (right) is Managing Member for Andretti Indoor Karting & Games. Andretti Karting, run by the famous Andretti racing family, is due to open its latest – and flagship – Indoor Karting & Games complex in Orlando this June.īlooloop spoke to two key members of the team about the $30 million new venue.įeaturing multi-level tracks and various other indoor attractions, the 144,000+ square feet (13,378 sq m) outlet adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center also offers quality fresh food and 9,000 square feet of meeting space with an eye to a corporate clientele.

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