RE: PH Competes: EnduroKa

[3795mpower]

Some Gump said:

Here's what i completely don't get about these series: They all use the sttest cars going.

116i trophy? Why not a 120i? 120d?.something better? The total cost of a season is so little influenced by the initial cost of the car, I just don't get it.

I love the concept of low cost endurance racing, but just can't fathom the idea of a 2 hour stint at Oulton in a 1.3 Ka or a 1.6 bmw. Both of those would be frustrating as hell on the morning commute, never mind one of the tracks with the best high speed bits on that I've driven. Surely a.relatively unstressed but higher output base car would be a much better start point? As long as it didn't get massively heavier then e.g brake and tyre wear wouldn't be hugely changed...

You’ve clearly never raced a mate in an identically powered car then !
Two of the best drives of my adult life were London to Cornwall in a pair of 40hp mini’s
Slipstreaming all the way
And a drive back from LeMans in a 1.3 Ka racing four French lads in a 1.2 Clio.

Then there’s the other aspect of having low power....you can use 90+% of it 95% of the time !

I say this hand on heart, at the time I had a ka I also had an M5.