UK Endurance series

[bozla]

Hi folks. I'm trying to work out all the Endurance series that exist in the UK. So far I have:
360mc series (3 hour races)
Endurance racing series (90 mins)
Brit car trophy (45min races)
Sports and touring car champs (90 min races)
British Endurance (90 mins)
Fun cup (4 hour races)
750 Roadsports (45 mins)
CSCC races (45 mins)
GT Cup (45 mins and sprint race)
British GT (1~4 hours)
MSVR trackday/team trophy (45 mins)


Basically I currently race as a team of 4 in karts (OEKC), but we are thinking of switching to cars next year. Our budget is about 20k so I'm trying to establish what we can race for that budget. The ideal for us would be fun-cup but I think the costs are going to be too high for us.

Edited by bozla on Sunday 17th May 19:20

Edited by bozla on Monday 18th May 20:43

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Truckosaurus said:

djroadboy said:

On a £20k budget??

I was answering part one of the 2-part question...

I've added to the list but I think it will be beyond our budget.

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andy97 said:

The 360 also run an annual 6 hour race aimed at clubman and very good value. £1500 entry fee for a 6 hour race and about 3 hours practice and qualifying). Classes for most cars and most ages and a great intro to endurance racing on a budget.

I think the ERS also run longer races, 3 hours?

Britcar also run, similar, longer races.

750 Roadsports is a good series with 3 x power to weight classes

CSCC offers several 40 min race series for a variety of eras for cars from the 60s right up to the modern day. It's very well run and its a great paddock to be part of.

MSVR offers similar to 750 and CSCC but 1 hour I think. There's a seperate thread about that series, and several threads about CSCC on here.

I don't know much about fun cup but you can hire drives with a number of teams and that may be a good option but it is very competitive.

I'd suggest that your budget limits you to 750, CSCC and 360 and if it was me I'd do a mix of those 3 at the circuits that were local to me, plus the 360 6 hours.

Edited by andy97 on Monday 18th May 08:12

Thanks Andy. I actually raced roadsports when it re-started a few years back and really enjoyed it. It was cheap safe racing.. I think maybe mixing it up with 1 pair of us doing one series, and the other pair doing another might be the way to go. It gives us some pit crew as well. I was thinking of maybe doing the new millenium series and also tin-tops in one day, but I'm not sure it would be possible for 4 people to share 1 car in one day.

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MyVTECGoesBwaaah said:

Missing MSVR trackday trophy/team trophy off your list.

Added - but I've heard it's a bit of a crash fest.

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88racing said:

On your budget you can forget anything that requires refuelling.

Chris.

Hi Chris - thanks for this, I wasn't aware of the refuelling costs - might rule out ERS/Britcar then. Do you know what are the refuelling requirements/cost?

Thanks -Alex

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Tanuki said:

Also consider Creventic. Not UK based - but brilliantly run and organised (good grids too). Again though, budget and all that.

Edited by Tanuki on Monday 18th May 11:55

I really like the idea of this one! Maybe we could do just the 12 hour races or something. We're nearly all novices at cars so maybe 2017.

[bozla]

Many thanks all for your very helpful responses. This has given me a definite direction to go - most likely a Clio in CSCC/750 and then 360, followed by ERS and then Creventic if we fancy doing something international, although probably just the 12hr European rounds.

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hufggfg said:

From the list you have here, I'd think Fun Cup is by far the cheapest on a £/min basis. Unfortunately it doesn't ideally suit a team of 4 (3 is perfect), but I'm sure you can work things out.

I'm currently doing my first year of racing (in Fun Cup) and would be happy to share thoughts/answer questions if you'd like.

I think we will go to Brands as we are karting at Lydd that weekend - see you there!