Learn To Race Like A Champion With Our 8 Week Junior Driving Program

LeMans Drivers Academy(LDA) Karting Course for 12 – 17yr Olds

The LeMans Drivers Academy is the best place to start your racing career or experience behind the wheel. Every school term, we offer an 8 week program that covers multiple areas of driving and what it takes to become a champion. Our LDA classes are run on Wednesday and Thursday nights and are 1 hour and 30 minutes long. The sessions include theory and practical programs at our team HQ plus the opportunity to put what you have learned into practice by driving on our Penrite track, which is the most technical track at LeMans, rather than focused on speed.

LDA is a great pathway for children to learn and develop! Not just driving skills, but teamwork and practical skills to help any aspiring driver. With emphasis on a fun, safe, and inclusive environment, we’re sure your kids will be excited to attend each week and participate in a sport that is always fun!
 
The LeMans Driver Academy is a program for 12-17 year olds, developing driving skills and providing a great opportunity to explore the fun and excitement of racing in a safe environment.
 
Is your child under 12? We have the right thing for you: Rookie Driver Development program, aimed at 8-11 year olds and offers a similar curriculum for the younger racers looking for a fun way to start racing.

Term 4 Enrolment is Now Open!’

 

Term 4 commences on Wednesday 9th October and Thursday 10th October

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Rookie Driver Development

Too young for YDA? Our Rookie Driver Development program is the perfect way to get ready to join the LeMans Young Driver Academy. For ages 8-11 the course runs for 6 weeks during the school term. Click the button below or contact a member of the team for more details.

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Junior Race League

If you’re ready to take your skill to the track the LeMans Junior Race League (JRL) is the best place to test your talent against the best of the best junior racers around! It’s also a lot of fun and a great way to learn some driving skills in an enjoyable and safe environment. Click below for more info. 

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The First Step Of Your Racing Journey

LeMans are giving you the chance to win your very own race kart with expert support to help you on your way for the first year of racing. Valued at over $30,000 this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to kick start your racing career. Click below for more details or contact a member of our team.

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What is covered in our 8 week Karting course for juniors?

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Our Program is designed to progress and build on your child’s learning each term! Meaning they will obtain a wide range of knowledge and skills whilst seeing improvements in their racing from term to term. We always cover Safety & Standards of racing in our first week, serving as an introduction for new drivers and the team.

The LeMans Driver Academy sessions are run on the Penrite Track, in Sprint Karts. Given it’s Melbourne, we deal with all weather conditions. This gives the kids an advantage in gaining experience in and a better understanding of road and racing conditions and the variables they may face as we operate in most weather conditions. Every week we start with a theoretical component in class, learn about fitness and warm ups of a race.

 Each session contains plenty of driving with varying drills and a strong focus on fun yet challenging activities. At the end of the term, parents will race it out in our guardians race and we hold a presentation where each student will receive a completion certificate.very week there is learning, practice & of course karting. The program provides fantastic value to get plenty of laps in our 200cc Sprint Karts. Each week we aim to have at least 30 minutes on track, developing real world skills to help with not just racing, but also driving a car when the time comes.

At the end of term presentation everyone will receive a certificate in recognition of their hard work. We have regular prizes for sportsmanship, fairness and dedication during the weekly sessions. 

The curriculum for the 8 weeks:

  • Safety
  • Racing Lines
  • Braking
  • Lap Consistency
  • Endurance Racing
  • Wet Driving
  • Race Starts
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Experienced Coaches Running YDA 

The LeMans Drivers Academy is lead by our experienced coaches who are passionate about racing. Our team of course have working with children checks completed and the safety of our participants is our top focus.

We strive to create a fun, inclusive environment to learn driving skills and create fantastic friendships! LDA is the perfect program to learn fundamental driving skills for both road and racing applications. 

In 2024 we’re excited to welcome a wide range of guest specialty coaches to assist our regular LeMans coaching team, providing expert advice, training and guidance to all LDA participants.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

We may be biased, but definitely yes! Every term will have new drills so there’ll be new things to learn. It is valuable to continue building on the skills, our YDA team spend time getting to know each competitor, so we have lots of repeat enrollments. Plus, practice makes perfect when it comes to shaving seconds off your PB lap time.

If you’ve enrolled in the full eight-week term for the first time, then we’ll have a welcome pack for you. We’re working on the 2024 updates at the moment!

Our YDA program is where the next generation of racing superstars from 12-17 years start to learn their race craft, and it is a feeder to our Junior Race League. Your YDA experience will be a great help if you decide to participate in any of the JRL events at LeMans throughout the year. Under 12? Check out our Rookie Driver Development program. 

What Our Customers say

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★★★★★ I have been going here for years and have always loved it. The recent upgrades though put this place in a league of it's own. I can't recommend this place enough.Nick B. ★★★★★ Amazing place， amazing staff！ Sara and Emma， thanksli S. ★★★★★ This place is AMAZING. Definitely recommend to come back and back again it never gets old. It’s full of activities and what makes it so much better than any other kart/arcade/mini golf place is…the STAFF. There service was beyond expectation and made every experience so enjoyable. My first time here today, and will be coming back for sureCasey C. ★★★★★ Great experience both with go karting and VR. Professional team and well managed. A small thing but I appreciated not being charged for lockers and balaclavas. Staff seemed to really care. Food was good and reasonably priced.Andrew B. ★★★★★ Played the Space Marine 2 experience, would definitely recommend! Big thanks to Lachlan and Sophie!Ethan ★★★★★ Went to Zero Latency at Le Mans, really fun experience and a great way to try VR! Lachlan and Astrid were super helpful!Harry A. ★★★★★ Did the Space Marine VR with a bunch of mates. Especially fun if you're a fan of Warhammer 40K. Highly recommend. Thanks to Lachlan and Astrid for setting it up for us.Jun-Wen L. ★★★★★ Had an amazing time doing VR again. Lachlan and Sophie were great hosts guiding us through it. Would come again for sureCaleb C. ★★★★★ Free balaclava and free lockers, thats enough for the 5 stars. The karts felt and sounded healthy too which is great. 10/10Cameron ★★★★★ First time experience was Hectic! Lyla was awesome and we all had an amazing timeDudz ★★★★★ Sam and Simon were good helping with vr and sam was really funny and made hood jokesNatasha S. ★★★★★ Shout out to Tommy and Sam. The best in the business. Thanks guysMuhammed A. ★★★★★ My boy just had his birthday party there. Go karting, laser tag and arcade games were all great fun. The kids loved it. The host was very friendly and helpful and made the process very smooth.Victor Y. ★★★★★ Sarah hosted our sons 10th birthday party today and was absolutely amazing, she was the best host, very attentive and was excellent with the kids was going above and beyond for the children and even the parents. Everyone who attended had the best time and that’s big thanks to Sarah cause she made the day easy for us and fun for the kids. I recommend Le Mans & Sarah as a host for birthday parties 100%Natalie ★★★★★ Well done Le Man, an entertainment complex offering something for everyone, no matter their age or interests. The real highlight for adrenaline seekers is the go-kart track – it’s well-designed and thrilling, providing a perfect mix of speed AND you can bring your little ones along for the ride. And if they want to ride solo they can on the Kids Mario-Kart track! RIPPA!Everyone from track side, workshop maintenance and behind the counter was friendly, attentive, and genuinely eager to help. The whole facility is spotless, and you can tell they take pride in maintaining a clean and welcoming environment.Overall, it’s a fantastic spot for a day out, whether you’re with family, friends, bux night or going solo. Highly recommend!!!Joshua A. ★★★★★ That bloke andrew was amazing 10/10 guy and the place was good tooZaq M. ★★★★★ Andrew is a fantastic mechanic and even a better bloke ❤️Darcy ★★★★★ Such an awesome place to have fun at! Love the gaming of vr and the speed of the gocarts! Thanks Josh for doing a great job guiding us around 😊Ian B. ★★★★★ Solid sesh with the bois, vr and karts was a blast, the main man josh sorted all out legendLostchild00 ★★★★★ Go Karts and VR were great fun, Josh killed it as a host!Hayden B. ★★★★★ Staff members were friendly and helpful. The family had a great time. 🎂🎂R ★★★★★ Decided on a race package. Absolute blast. Lachlan great host. Thanks to Steph for arranging.Terry K. ★★★★★ Amazing host (lachlan) fun time ! Did a race package will do againjemal D ★★★★★ Done the lakeside race package, killer track and great host thanks LochlanHaseeb K ★★★★★ Came in for a race package with mates. Was so much fun & Lachlan was an awesome host.Elias M. ★★★★★ Highly recommend!Done a race package with a bunch of mates & the experience was unbelievableShout out to Steph & Lachlan for the day out!Jusuf D. ★★★★★ Came in for a race package with the matesHad a great dayAnd ended up going for the mini golfsajad N. ★★★★★ We had Chris as a host for our bucks party. He was absolutely fantastic! Super clear with instructions, great communication, funny! Went above and beyond! Would highly recommend!Daniel F. ★★★★★ That was fun! The experience is unique, thanks to Lyla - she is amazing and helpful!!😎💪Seang Cheatei T. ★★★★★ Came here with my wife to play some mino golf and VR. Sam who looked after us with the the VR experience was nothing short of amazing. Absolute legend explained everything well and is down to have a laugh with us aswell. Will def come back to try the other experience as long as Sam is around 👏Niro J. ★★★★★ Local group here! We were treated extremely nice by the staff, they were really helpful with finding everything, ordering our food and helping with equipment. Would really recommend this for large groups and families. We had no problems breaking into groups for minigolf and traversing the track. The themed tracks were really fun and different then what we have done before.Bunerong R.js_loader