How did many of the world's top Nascar drivers hone their checkered-flag skills? Fishtailing around go-kart tracks, of course.

And, the recently opened 100,000-square-foot Velocity 17 in New Jersey is righteous proving ground of your pole-position prowess too. It's 2000 foot Grand Prix kart racing track is stocked with hairpin turns, banked corners, chicanes, and lengthy straightways to top out the gas-powered karts at 30 mph -- but when you're swerving inside to block a would-be passer, you'd swear you were hitting triple digits.

Keep in mind: These aren't your grandfather's go-karts (you need a real drivers license to drive the fast ones) and lucky for you, parks just like this one, are opening up throughout the U.S. So, even if you have no ambition to make the pro circuit, let alone the freeway's fast lane, you can finally end the eternal dispute between fathers and son (mothers and daughters): Who is the best driver?