Cheapest way in to track racing?
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CTCRC Pre05 prod saloons has to be once of the cheapest ways in to motorsport at the moment. To prove a point ,our chairman has just built a puma for under 2k from start to finish.
http://classictouringcars.com/pre-2005-production-...
The cars run on toyo road tyres so you in theory you can drive to the track!
http://classictouringcars.com/pre-2005-production-...
The cars run on toyo road tyres so you in theory you can drive to the track!
andye30m3 said:
I also race in Production BMW and have for the last a number of years and again other than sprinting was my first racing.
The races tend to be on a Sunday, as Alex said there is also the option of doing the TTRS race on the Saturday which can be useful test time without needing to take friday off work for the official test days
The paddock is very friendly, just this weekend one of the potential front runners cracked a sump in practise and was lent one buy one of the teams running cars for direct competitors (this is pretty common when issues crop up)
Average race I'd expect zero damage, in 4 or 5 years racing I've had one front wing and one rear quarter. The organisers are very keen for clean racing and I believe were the first club to introduce their own drive standards penalties, something which other clubs have started to use.
Panels are generally very easy to find and if it comes to it I expect most are still available from BMW.
biggest expense I've found this year is tyres but I could have been more frugal in this department, having said that used R888R's in 195/50 15 sell well on ebay.
There are teams like graves Motorsport https://www.facebook.com/GravesMotorsport who will rent you a car at a very reasonable rate if you wanted to come and have a go.
Dittio. First race 2 weeks back at Oulton following an unlucky debut 2 years back at Brands. Kept a blog of the past few years at cookracing.co.uk The races tend to be on a Sunday, as Alex said there is also the option of doing the TTRS race on the Saturday which can be useful test time without needing to take friday off work for the official test days
The paddock is very friendly, just this weekend one of the potential front runners cracked a sump in practise and was lent one buy one of the teams running cars for direct competitors (this is pretty common when issues crop up)
Average race I'd expect zero damage, in 4 or 5 years racing I've had one front wing and one rear quarter. The organisers are very keen for clean racing and I believe were the first club to introduce their own drive standards penalties, something which other clubs have started to use.
Panels are generally very easy to find and if it comes to it I expect most are still available from BMW.
biggest expense I've found this year is tyres but I could have been more frugal in this department, having said that used R888R's in 195/50 15 sell well on ebay.
There are teams like graves Motorsport https://www.facebook.com/GravesMotorsport who will rent you a car at a very reasonable rate if you wanted to come and have a go.
Edited by andye30m3 on Monday 25th July 16:55
If cost is a major consideration, then surely this is worth a look? And who wouldn't want to race at Spa?
http://pumacup.com/
http://pumacup.com/
Edited by MikeT66 on Tuesday 16th August 15:47
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