Real cost?

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thunderbelmont

2,982 posts

224 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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spyderman8 said:
They do say that one of the quickest ways to make £1M is to take £5M and enter motorsport.
The phrase was "How to end up with a small fortune through Motorsport.... start with a very large one".

I'm probably in the more extreme end of the clubby market....

Fuel for the weekend - Motorhome : 100L Unleaded (usually £128), RacecarfrownOne 20min qually, two 15min races)... circa 60L Super Unleaded (£85 ish)
Tyres (should last a season (4 meetings and a test) £1100 for Slicks, similar for wets.
Entry - £275

Difficult to quantify standing costs per meeting - but if I said it realistically cost me £1000/round to run the car, that would probably be a fair number (plus the fuel/tyres/entry fees).

Add to that breakages/damage and it can get "entertaining" running a one-off unique bespoke beastie.


SmartVenom

462 posts

169 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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thunderbelmont said:
spyderman8 said:
They do say that one of the quickest ways to make £1M is to take £5M and enter motorsport.
The phrase was "How to end up with a small fortune through Motorsport.... start with a very large one".

I'm probably in the more extreme end of the clubby market....

Fuel for the weekend - Motorhome : 100L Unleaded (usually £128), RacecarfrownOne 20min qually, two 15min races)... circa 60L Super Unleaded (£85 ish)
Tyres (should last a season (4 meetings and a test) £1100 for Slicks, similar for wets.
Entry - £275

Difficult to quantify standing costs per meeting - but if I said it realistically cost me £1000/round to run the car, that would probably be a fair number (plus the fuel/tyres/entry fees).

Add to that breakages/damage and it can get "entertaining" running a one-off unique bespoke beastie.
You should try running it in a CSCC event, cars apparently run on air in those and never use any consumables! wink