Cheapest form of motorsport?
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[quote=Superkartracer
No racing is cheap
Cheap karting - Look @ £300 per event
Cheap Single Seater - Look @ £800 per event
Testing - Kart £40/Car £300 :-)
Check
ten-tenths.com - club racing
karting.co.uk - karting :-)
and
www.monoposto.co.uk/
I'd try karting! buy a cheap rotax Max! will scare you to death at first :-) then move up to gearbox karts and then realise that fast road cars are in fact very very slow :-)
www.250superkarts.com/
Visit a local track and chat to the drivers
Tip for you, karting is by far the best form of motorsport, any decent driver will tell you that!, 250 Gearbox karts run at champ car speeds.... how fast do you want to go?
Try a max :-)
have Fun
A
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I have raced a Vuxhall Junior and, more recently a 2 litre Formula Vauxhall in Monoposto over the past 4 years and have raced for £400 a race. That is ALL IN - licences, medicals, entry fees, transport race fuel and consumables, tyres and paid help at meetings. I keep the costs down by only doing the meetings close to me so no overnight stays or long trips, I have not had much accident damage or gone testing much and I use second hand F Ford or F3 tyres. I have also interspersed the Monoposto rounds with a few BARC-SEC races at the Silverstone Stowe circuit (great value at "only £110" per entry for 40 mins track time) so single seater racing can be done for a lot less than £800 per race. And single seaters are probably cheaper to run, and better performance per pound, than saloons.
I won't pretend that £400 per race is cheap in the real world but it is cheap in racing terms.
No racing is cheap
Cheap karting - Look @ £300 per event
Cheap Single Seater - Look @ £800 per event
Testing - Kart £40/Car £300 :-)
Check
ten-tenths.com - club racing
karting.co.uk - karting :-)
and
www.monoposto.co.uk/
I'd try karting! buy a cheap rotax Max! will scare you to death at first :-) then move up to gearbox karts and then realise that fast road cars are in fact very very slow :-)
www.250superkarts.com/
Visit a local track and chat to the drivers
Tip for you, karting is by far the best form of motorsport, any decent driver will tell you that!, 250 Gearbox karts run at champ car speeds.... how fast do you want to go?
Try a max :-)
have Fun
A
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I have raced a Vuxhall Junior and, more recently a 2 litre Formula Vauxhall in Monoposto over the past 4 years and have raced for £400 a race. That is ALL IN - licences, medicals, entry fees, transport race fuel and consumables, tyres and paid help at meetings. I keep the costs down by only doing the meetings close to me so no overnight stays or long trips, I have not had much accident damage or gone testing much and I use second hand F Ford or F3 tyres. I have also interspersed the Monoposto rounds with a few BARC-SEC races at the Silverstone Stowe circuit (great value at "only £110" per entry for 40 mins track time) so single seater racing can be done for a lot less than £800 per race. And single seaters are probably cheaper to run, and better performance per pound, than saloons.
I won't pretend that £400 per race is cheap in the real world but it is cheap in racing terms.
spectatorsam said:
you can buy a stock hatch fiesta often on ebay or 750 website etc for a grand. at this time of year!!
race it for a year, keep it till the following feb or march and then flog it for money back!!!
race it for a year, keep it till the following feb or march and then flog it for money back!!!
...having spent another £2k in entrance fees, travel, helmet, race suit, maintenance, tyres.
Hi Andy
£400 to win? or just enter? £800 was for running on new/ish rubber crash damage and all the other bits and bobs, yes you can run at £400 but you won't win! unless you drive like God lol
gearbox karts are best value tho really!! and for much less than £400 you can win and go faster
Cheers
Andy
£400 to win? or just enter? £800 was for running on new/ish rubber crash damage and all the other bits and bobs, yes you can run at £400 but you won't win! unless you drive like God lol
gearbox karts are best value tho really!! and for much less than £400 you can win and go faster
Cheers
Andy
I admit that I am no where near the sharp end but that isn't really a function of the budget, more to do with lack of talent! The previous owner of my FVL achieved podiums at Donington, beating Mono Spec Dallaras in the process, and won an open single seater race at Anglesea - he wasn't spending any more money than me & certainly was not using new tyres but....he had talent.
The point is that if I could afford to spend a bit more on testing & tyres then I am sure that I would improve, as would everyone, but a talented driver can still be very competitive in Mono at relatively low budget levels.
The point is that if I could afford to spend a bit more on testing & tyres then I am sure that I would improve, as would everyone, but a talented driver can still be very competitive in Mono at relatively low budget levels.
Andrew Noakes said:
spectatorsam said:
you can buy a stock hatch fiesta often on ebay or 750 website etc for a grand. at this time of year!!
race it for a year, keep it till the following feb or march and then flog it for money back!!!
race it for a year, keep it till the following feb or march and then flog it for money back!!!
...having spent another £2k in entrance fees, travel, helmet, race suit, maintenance, tyres.
dude!
nothing is for nothing
you cant say its not cheap because its not free!!
entry fees are a legitimate charge for the clubs as the circuits charge to hire them etc.
some people only do 2 or 3 races a year, in stock hatch that can be as cheap as £300
sixpackpert said:
Cheap racing - £60 race entry fee, 60-100 litres of fuel and no brakes!!! Craft cost anything from £500 for a second hand old one to £15,000 for a shiney new F1 monster.
It's mad but we love it!
It's mad but we love it!
realy fancy a pop at those hovercrafts.
anyone got any idea how to rty it, ie
anyone actualy doing it at the moment
details please
I will be racing again next season, sold the craft you see in my profile. Difficult to get a go in a top spec racer unless you know someone with one and ply him/her with beer!!
It's a superb sport, the F1's can do 0-60mph in about 4.5secs and you're always on the edge of flipping 'em over.
There are branches of the hoverclub all around the UK, have a look here for more info www.hovercraft.org.uk/hcgb.htm
Where abouts are you spectatorsam?
It's a superb sport, the F1's can do 0-60mph in about 4.5secs and you're always on the edge of flipping 'em over.
There are branches of the hoverclub all around the UK, have a look here for more info www.hovercraft.org.uk/hcgb.htm
Where abouts are you spectatorsam?
Spectatorsam - suggest try it first in a rented hovercraft not far away in Shropshire with a few mates; I did last year & had great fun. Owner Tim is friendly but professional, course is on land AND water 
www.hoverdays.co.uk
www.hoverdays.co.uk
This is worth a look - www.funcup.co.uk/
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
work-shy-wanabe said:
This is worth a look - www.funcup.co.uk/
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
Kevan gore one of the tvr racers has one of these, that he hires out seats in. Im sure he was putting a test day together soon.
kg55 is his handle on here
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work-shy-wanabe said:
This is worth a look - www.funcup.co.uk/
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
Its not as cheap as the others mentioned, but the 'arrive and drive packages' offer a lot of track time for the price and a controlled cost. So the cost per amount of track time is probably better value for money than most other series. There also space on the car for sponsorship and the series gets pretty good media coverage.
What do you think?
Probably very good value but, and I know that it should not matter, the cars look so crap! If only they had clothed the chassis in an Audi TT body shell (perhaps a facsimile of the Abt Sport DTM version of a few years ago) then I might be tempted. Shallow of me, I know!
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