Huntsville Town to Welcome Grand Prix CycleKart 2026
24 April 2026

The annual Huntsville Grand Prix CycleKart 2026 is slated for May 1 and May 2. This fun and exciting experience equates to a festival and exhibition—not a race. It’s a big, fun, social event!

What’s a cyclekart? It’s a smaller, recreational form of vintage car racing from the early 1900’s.

The Huntsville Grand Prix is a simple gentlemen’s style race and display of scratch built, old-time race cars that really go! Each car is built by their driver, with no two alike as all strive to achieve capturing the caricature of their inspiration cars. The car builders then race them in a fun and safe fashion. It’s fun for the entire family.

The number one rule in cyclekarting is to have fun and make it look good. This is a cyclekart event that adheres to what a cyclekart really is. They are art on wheels—resembling period cars. Each builder understands that the look of the car is paramount. We drive in a spirited fashion, sometimes in period gear, and just have a good time.

The Huntsville Grand Prix has now become a yearly cyclekarting event. A cyclekart is a caricature of a pre-world war II vintage car, or race car built to a certain set of guidelines the real cyclkarters all follow. Each one is built by their drivers to put on quite the show.

The Huntsville Grand Prix CycleKart event is a sibling of the Tieton Grand Prix and runs in a strikingly similar fashion. All driver entry fees are given to the town of Huntsville... and we even dress the part, too! We’re simply glad to have a place to go... and Huntsville Town is the perfect setting.

The first Huntsville event was held August 22, 2020, which enjoyed great success for a pilot event. Twenty-three cyclekarts attended. This captured the title as the largest cyclekart gathering in the world for 2020.

The cyclekart event is something special. The town is actually older than the cars we recreate. Surviving right through prohibition, it holds a special place for us!

It is our belief that a cyclekart is an art form. Sure, they appear to be race cars, but they’re really an expression that results in ingenuity and fun in the build as well as a special kind of culture that we love… the people. The people are just the best.

Plan on attending this year’s event, May 1 and May 2. Races fire up at 8:00 a.m. between the Huntsville Park and LDS church. All spectators are free.

Side note: Even if it rains, or snows... we run.

For more information visit huntsvillegp.com.