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The Tony Rust race track outside Windhoek made history this past weekend as the first three electric-powered go-karts on the continent took to the track.<\/em><\/p>\n While a first for Africa, the karts are still being closely scrutinised by local racers accustomed to the roar of internal combustion engines and the intensive mechanical tuning required before a race.<\/p>\n In contrast, electric karts are quiet, require minimal maintenance, and are tuned via computer.<\/p>\n “This is an awkward thing,” Mandume Kaiyamo (12)…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Tony Rust race track outside Windhoek made history this past weekend as the first three electric-powered go-karts on the continent took to the track. While a first for Africa, the karts are still being closely scrutinised by local racers accustomed to the roar of internal combustion engines and the intensive mechanical tuning required before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4380,12156,9416,54387,4706,724,257,54388,254,22812],"class_list":["post-233201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-debut","tag-electric","tag-karts","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rust","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tony"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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