Roadgoing Production Class - Sprinting - tech question?

[andye30m3]

I'd disagree with the above regarding the standard class being pointless, In someways i'm surprised it's not much more popular.

I did a year in the standard class and loved it, I bought a £2k clio 172 drove it as my every day car and turned up once a month to sprint it. as it was my everyday car it cost very little other than the entry fees to compete. Which IMO makes it very good value way into motorsport.

I'll enter the road going production class next year and see how I get on but am reluctant to spend £000's modifying the car. Even if I end up running road legal slicks such as R888, theres an approximate £500 outlay as I would run them on a second set of wheels.

If it looked like I'd need to spend a few thousand to modify suspension, brakes etc etc to be competitive I'd probably look at doing the production E30 race series instead.

[Mark Benson]

m1bjr said:

CNHSS1 said:

Re the 'std' and Roadgoing sections, this has been brought up by our guys numerous times, and yet ironically its never well supported (within our championship). Sods Law eh?

Well, given the mixture of conflicting answers received even in this thread, and a sincere thank you to all contributors, it's not surprising.

Maybe they all gave up and went back to track days after banging heads for too long?
I may be the next to do the same

Edited by m1bjr on Sunday 17th January 22:19

All the eligibility rules around motorsport seem confusing when you're starting out.

To be fair, they still do to those who've been at it for years, but as you get used to the way things are you realise that the officials and your fellow competitors want to get you out there competing regardless of what you've brought along, and that for most of us, the 'getting out on track and competing' bit is more important (at least initially) than the 'being first in class' bit.

Give it a go, see what class you end up in and take it from there would be my advice