LongGoneJohn
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^^ That's not entirely true! I have a bag full of plastic trophies and a few wooden ones even!
To answer the question, the last year I raced - I was racing Superdino, about as cheap as you can get, and I still spent about $15,000 when all was said and done that year. Once you figure in food, hotels, trackdays associated with race weekends, race weekend fees, tires, brakes, maintaining stuff, etc. And I didn't even crash.
Sure, a given weekend you may spend $600-$1000, but you do trackdays to test shit, you fix parts, you upgrade parts, you replace brakes because your opponent did and now you're like "hmm, mine kind of suck" etc. etc. etc.
If you're going out there "just to go out there and have fun" that's fine, but if you keep racing you will want to start passing people, and beating them. That will cost real money, no matter what "cheap" class you run in.
Hence why I only do trackdays now. Hahahahahah.
To answer the question, the last year I raced - I was racing Superdino, about as cheap as you can get, and I still spent about $15,000 when all was said and done that year. Once you figure in food, hotels, trackdays associated with race weekends, race weekend fees, tires, brakes, maintaining stuff, etc. And I didn't even crash.
Sure, a given weekend you may spend $600-$1000, but you do trackdays to test shit, you fix parts, you upgrade parts, you replace brakes because your opponent did and now you're like "hmm, mine kind of suck" etc. etc. etc.
If you're going out there "just to go out there and have fun" that's fine, but if you keep racing you will want to start passing people, and beating them. That will cost real money, no matter what "cheap" class you run in.
Hence why I only do trackdays now. Hahahahahah.
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