There is a pretty straightforward reason why go-karting is often a gateway sport for eventual Formula 1 racers. Like it is with F1 cars, you are seated as close to the ground as possible in a go-kart, too. Plus, you can't really zip around on a busy street in a normal vehicle. But while go-karting, you drive on a track that is roughly on similar lines as the one in a Grand Prix.

So if you too want to take up the sport, sign up for a go-karting workshop scheduled at Wadala's Ajmera IndiKarting race track this weekend. The place was founded by the Ajemra Group and Rayomand Banajee, an eight-time national racing champion who started teaching youngsters the basics of go-karting in 2006. The workshop, though, will be conducted by multiple-race winner Saurav Bandyopadhyay, and he tells us that he will teach participants different aspects of racing. These include understeer, which occurs when a car steers less than the driver intended it to; oversteer, which is the opposite manoeuvre; and racing lines, which involves a person figuring out the optimal path in a race course so that he or she can finish in the fastest possible time.