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Is there anywhere I can find a list of go kart tracks around the world or specifically in Europe?

I have one decent track near me http://www.pallaskarting.com/ but other than that I don't have the opportunity to kart. I want to be able to work in some karting sessions when I'm on holiday in the UK or Spain. I plan to go to the Basque region of Spain next but all the kart tracks I've found are in the south.

Is there anywhere in the UK that would let you try out the type of karts in KRP? Pallas karting near me has bigger outdoor ones (it's been a while since I've been there so I don't know what they are) they are fastest I've raced but I don't think they're in the league of the karts in KRP.

Online inbetween practice qualifying and racing the kart setup reverts to the default settings and it keeps catching me out, whatever about the rest of the default setup the brake pressure makes the kart undrivable and I have to abandon any races. I know I could just change the default settings but I don't like to change that so I can always go back to the default and start again.

I'm not sure how the tyres in karting wear, all I know from F1 is soft tyres are fast but wear quicker and hard tyres last longer. Will soft tyres drop off with wear? If they will comfortably last a race why would you use hard tyres? How would you use your tyres during practice, qualifying and racing?

I'm setting up the brakes on the kart similar to a car and the front brakes are completely new concept to me.

At the moment I'm using between 65-70% brakes. I have the front brake slightly stronger than the rear, usually only a few percent.

I just want to make one thing clear, when I press the brake pedal does it brake all four wheels and when I press the front brakes it only activates the front brakes? Or, when I press the brake pedal does it only activate the rear brakes and the front brake lever only activates the front brakes?

If it works just like car brakes should I have more pressure on the front brakes with less on the rear brakes? Or should they be the same?

Should the brake pressure be as high as it can be without locking the wheels or should it just be a case of whatever works for you? I just notice everyone else seems to be using less brake pressure than me but my times are in the mid 45s on Lonato which seems to be pretty decent so I don't seem to be suffering to much if I'm wrong.

I am having awful trouble with using the front brakes though, how do you use them? Do you just tap them during normal braking with the pedal? That's what seems to work for me but I have to have the front brake come on very slowly (nearly at 100 in settings). As I said front brakes are just a new concept for me, I either don't use them or only lightly tap them. If I was using a much lower brake pressure would they work better?

I haven't seen a list of features of what you get when you buy a license. Can you have AI races or is it only online against other people? I'm going to buy a license for it at some stage just to try out racing but I just want to know how it works.

I'm guessing it's marbles anyway. If I'm driving around for a while and generating marbles at some stage I'll see a big clump of marbles in an unusual place like going up the main straight and as soon as I hit them the game crashes.

I'm using windows 64, i72600k, geforce 460.