This time-trial clip is brought to you by go-kart enthusiast Jason Bell, who thought it would be good idea to see if a 36-hp, 125cc shifter kart could lap Laguna Seca faster than a 444-hp Ford Mustang Boss 302.

Currently the Boss is one of the best budget track cars you can buy. It stickered for about $43,000 when new. Bell wants to make the point that racing can be even cheaper from behind the wheel of a go-kart.

This particular Boss 302 is the Laguna Seca edition, costing $48,000 new. It gets an upgraded suspension, stickier tires, rear seat delete and a whole bunch of other go-fast stuff. In the video it’s driven by hotshoe Randy Pobst. The kart costs only three grand, and Bell is behind the wheel.

The kart video doesn’t have a ticking clock to verify, but Bell says the two came in at virtually the exact same time: 1 minute, 41 seconds. He says with a top-tier driver the kart would have been around 2 seconds faster.

Of course, the flip side is that you can’t drive that kart in the winter, or on the street. And good luck taking your dog to the vet in that thing, or taking a date to the movies. Still, anything that gets more people to put rubber to pavement in anger is good with us.

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