For parents

Your child’s path in motorsport: step by step, with a clear budget and an honest assessment.

Chicanez NRT is a young-driver incubator in Sofia. It was founded by parents of talented drivers, and motorsport professionals do the work. We do not sell you a “path to Formula 1”. We help your child through each step, explain in advance what each step costs and why it suits your child, and build in points where you can calmly decide whether to go on, change class or stop.

The first step

No experience, just the desire

Where to start: Come to the Chicanez NRT shop in central Sofia (31 Vasil Levski Blvd). We will explain everything and work out how best to run a trial day and the first training sessions for your child: on team karts or on partner karts, at a reasonable price. You do not need to buy anything.
What you get: After 3 months of training, a coach’s assessment and a recommendation: carry on, change format or stop.

Address: 31 Vasil Levski Blvd, 1000 Sofia
Opening hours: Wed–Fri 12:00–20:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–19:00, closed Mon–Tue

Open in maps

Your child already races

Where to start: Write to us or call: tell us where your child is now, the class and the results. We will offer a test day or one round of the national series on a team kart, with our engineer-mechanic and coach, without buying anything.
What you get: A debrief with the gap to the leader, lap-time spread and telemetry, a comparison with the local field and a season plan: what your child needs and why it costs what it does.

Our rules of honesty

We explain where the figures come from. In advance, we tell you what the budget for a step is made of and why it is what it is for your child: the class, the number of races and tests, your own kart or a rental, travel, goals.
Decision points. Every 3 months or 3 races we take stock: carry on, change class or take a break. A break is part of the plan, not a refusal.
Open briefings. You can attend briefings and debriefs. We regularly check that your child still wants this.
Clear criteria for moving up. Your child moves up to an older class or to Europe only when a criterion written down in advance is met, not “so as not to fall behind”.
No Formula 1 promises. We set measurable goals for the next 3 months and at the same time build a strategy several years ahead: which classes, series and decisions lie ahead for your child.
Attention to every driver. Your child has their own engineer-mechanic. A coach looks after no more than 3 drivers, usually 1–2.
School comes first. We organise training on days without school and in the holidays. If a competition falls on a school day, the federation issues a note for school; missing school for training is your decision and your responsibility. If schoolwork suffers, we reduce the load.

The shop and conflict of interest

Chicanez NRT has its own shop: we are the official distributor of karts, engines and racewear from leading brands. The shop earns money from sales, and we say so openly. That is why:

we explain our chassis and engine recommendations: the class, the regulations, the availability of parts and service in the region;
you are free to buy equipment anywhere; a driver with their own kart can join the team if the kart fully meets the requirements of our chief engineer;
we always offer a used or rental option: a used kart to own, a new or used kart to rent;
when your child moves up a class, we will sell the kart they have outgrown;
we check racewear for size and homologation free of charge, wherever you bought it. Homologation requirements keep changing, and we make sure our drivers’ racewear meets them.

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