Jul
19
This $14 Million Ranch Has a Go-Kart Track and a $1 Million Pool
ByThere are also 40 acres of equestrian facilities, but let’s get back to those go-karts.
In 2000, David Batchelder, co-founder of the (now closed) activist fund Relational Investors, invested heavily in go-karts.
After purchasing a 720-acre ranch near San Diego, he had set about developing it into a family retreat, a key feature of which was a custom go-kart track. “I wanted really, really good go-karts,” Batchelder said. “Those ones you can drive inside, with bumpers all the way around, that can go up to 40 miles per hour.” After some searching, Batchelder settled on Sodi Karts, which are manufactured in Couëron, France, and contacted a distributor in Florida who not only arranged to ship the karts to San Diego, but also flew out to design a custom track…
This $14 Million Ranch Has a Go-Kart Track and a $1 Million Pool
