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[HustleRussell]

RLCCM said:

I personally have just gone through a very similar question to you. I wanted to get into formula racing and not spend the earth.

After much research I've actually bought into Formula Vee, and hopefully will make it to the first race weekend at Castle Combe in a few weeks time for my very first race! Assuming all my other kit and race license are sorted by then, though will be going in a bit blind without any test day, so it will be a very steep learning curve!

Did you make it to Combe RLCCM?

[RLCCM]

HustleRussell said:

Did you make it to Combe RLCCM?

YES! I did actually, by the skin of my teeth! My ARDS test got cancelled twice due to snow, but I managed to fly back an extra time to get it done just the week before Combe! Some of my Race kit didn't turn up in time - through no fault of Demontweeks who I bought from (who were super helpful, and managed to get me another helmet out within 24 hours notice to another UK address I could pick it up from), and I ended up borrowing a race-suit for the day from AHS, who were overall brilliant for me the whole weekend!

Then as for how the day went, well I couldn't have asked for a more eventful first race day! Full wet conditions in the morning for qualifying (my first time ever in the car!!) whicih I somehow survived and then drying towards the end of the day. First racing lap - I managed to bog the car down off the start (I'd never done a race start ok! not even a practice one!) - dropped to last place because of it, then found myself picking my way through a gaggle of spinning cars at the first big corner (Quarry), overtaking a couple more during the rest of the lap before spinning it spectacularly at the last corner, having gotten too much confidence and overcooking it up the inside of someone!!). Righted and went on my way!! With much more dicing and fighting for both races after that, I somehow even topped the day off with a top 10!!

So it was the perfect start to racing for me, absolutely brilliant fun, and even more than I hoped for too! And whats more, the people on the grid and in the paddock were great - all very friendly and welcoming. Simply, superb.

Really, I think the cars are more similar than they are different, and to have a brilliant day you need neither the fastest nor the most expensive car (though mine happens to be quite respected, at the end of the day, we all have similar engines, and its just degrees of difference from one car to another rather than anything that major. I wouldn't have been any faster or slower in my first weekend had I been in any other car on the grid).

I can't wait for the next race - brands hatch, coming up this weekend! I'm totally hooked.

[85Carrera]

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