MSR Houston — Attraction in Angleton

Sadly this place is going downhill. Booked three 15min sessions online on their website the day before the visit. When I arrived, i was informed that sessions are only 10min now. I asked if I could do four 10min sessions (to get closer to 45min which I paid). However, they only honored three sessions at 10 minutes, which means they scammed me out of 15min of runtime. Additionally, the new karts are terrible. They are slower, they have smaller tires with less grip, and MSR is running the course in reverse now. Also, dipping a single tire off the track will get you a black flag / disqualification. This place is not fun anymore - bad business practices scamming people with online purchases, slow karts, and extremely strict track rules. No thank you.

Edit after owners response: I did get a refund for the sessions. Thank you. I appreciate it, but this was not communicated at the track and would not have been necessary by simply allowing a fourth session. Regarding the karts: Thank you for calling me a noob - while I am certainly no pro, I race karts every week and have been to your track several times. I can definitely tell that the karts are slower and the smaller tires produce less grip. I also think you are trying to hide that by reversing the track, because it would not be possible to get to a similar lap time with the new karts. I did not go off track, I dipped a tire in the dirt once because of a slow kart I had to avoid. Anyway - thx for the refund but...

Super weird experience with a lot of shortcomings. It felt like it had the potential to be a really cool spot if it had some more intentional management.

We weren’t given any kinda safety briefing and then we got fussed at when we didn’t know exactly what gate to walk through. We also had one race where one of us wasn’t even listed on the time board at the end. Inside team and outside team seem very disconnected.

$350~ for me and 3 friends to race 5x each. Seemed fair, except every race a go-kart died. Broken wheel bearing, one just died, flat tire, it was something every time, so it meant somebody was sitting out in the middle of the race each time. We had to wait for one of my buddies to do a race at the end because of how often the carts broke down. They were also gonna make him wait til the next next race until he said something.

Also after we signed waivers, 3/4 of us got an error message, and they were like, “yeah, don’t worry about it.”

Other little things that woulda made it better were food and water. Vending machine is full of coke and sugary stuff and there is nothing to eat.

I wanted to love it so bad, but it was meh at best. I hope they fix some of these shortcomings because it seems like...

Starting the 2024 I had hope they improved the surface of the track but was disappointed to experience it being in worse shape than 2023.

The current state of the track for motorcycle riders is very poor.

I love the layout and would be willing to pay more for a better surface, they have these concrete repaired areas on the race line for the tight turns that I hate.

New this year are more rough patches in the motorcycle race line, a rough line down the front straight as your heading toward the concrete wall, exiting the hot pit area they have giant potholes.

It is so bad right now that I am reconsidering signing up for more track days when I can spend my money driving a little more for Eagles, G2, and COTA.

I would love to say it is better but that wouldn't be honest. To the website, why can't I just find a track map, why am I seeing images of members areas and things that don't exist.

I feel it is getting more dangerous not less, and I hope they publish a plan for repairing it. Our track school leader mentioned they had plans but gave no details, so I hope this is true and they...