Jobs, Budgets and Cars

[37chevy]

hi

might be a bit of a bizzare question but just wanted to take a straw poll of pistonheaders racing activities....

just out of interest what jobs have all you guys got? whats your budget for the year and what series/cars do you race in.....

....i realise motorsport isnt cheep but it would be interesting to see the differnce between people on here

[Classic Grad 98]

22 year old Trainee Piping engineer, Oil & Gas industry. Less than £25k but currently living with mum so rent very low.
I'm competing in my own car in Caterham Classic Graduates, the car owes me ~£8k plus maintenence and other costs. Tow car only cost £1,900 and the trailer £850.
A season of fourteen races costs me ~£6k including testing, accomodation (cheap/free where poss mates at uni etc), feeding and beering myself etc. One weekend per season is overseas and this year it's Spa
Soon the salary will have to increase quite significantly or I'll have to give up racing when I move out (life's tough, isn't it!?)

[37chevy]

Classic Grad 98 said:

22 year old Trainee Piping engineer, Oil & Gas industry. Less than £25k but currently living with mum so rent very low.
I'm competing in my own car in Caterham Classic Graduates, the car owes me ~£8k plus maintenence and other costs. Tow car only cost £1,900 and the trailer £850.
A season of fourteen races costs me ~£6k including testing, accomodation (cheap/free where poss mates at uni etc), feeding and beering myself etc. One weekend per season is overseas and this year it's Spa
Soon the salary will have to increase quite significantly or I'll have to give up racing when I move out (life's tough, isn't it!?)

haha tell me about it......

...graduate civil engineer....salary less than 20k....was racing until recently but had to sell stuff cos ive bought a house, hoping to start racing in a year or 2 time though...can just afford the house at the moment though!

[Count Johnny]

37chevy said:

...whats your budget for the year...

Are you the wife's solicitor?

I'm a Director of a small technical cleaning company. Annual racing budget is £25k doing 750MC BikeSports, but someone else does all of the prep, transports the car, provides support at the circuit, and my car's a bit 'out there', so my budget isn't necessarily typical for BikeSports.

BikeSports is ten rounds at 5 meetings, this year.

Edit:

Car is this:

Edited by Count Johnny on Tuesday 31st January 12:04

[andy rob]

Hi, struggling self employed motor trader, trying to run a ford falcon V8 super(expensive)car in a few rounds of both classic thunder & eurosaloons.
Trying to do it on a shoe string budget with a not so cheap car, one expensive breakage or crash & thats me out for the season

Edited by andy rob on Tuesday 31st January 12:24

[frodo_monkey]

Serving military, shall be out this year in the RAFMSA series and the CSCC Special Saloons in my Reliant Kitten V8 - budget tbd but I think £5k covers it, do all the work myself and have a £1k Skoda towcar with a trailer

[Carnage]

Police officer, racing historic Ginettas and occasionally Crossle 9S. I aim for a budget of £5K, always always always exceeded! I'm lucky enough to be able to drive other people's cars occasionally based on running, transporting, and gophering for them.

Don't worry about the money - if you want it badly enough, you will make the sacrifices and make it happen. I'm not a rich man - but I've gone down Eau Rouge, raced at Silverstone the week after the GP, and lived my childhood dream.

[Jerry Can]

I work as an Area Manager for a VM.
Budget this year will be about the same as last- £1800. That's for 5 races and 4 hillclimbs. Hopefully I will win my championship again, this year.

[IAN51]

Hi First post so be gentle, Im a Plant Fitter working in the Traffic Management Industry Earning 35-40k

Cars
Ford Fiesta Cosworth
Fletcher Hornet Mk2 (7 type kit car 1800 Zetec powered)

I race in the RAFMSA Series but would like to do Classic Thunder with the Fiesta in 2013 !Seasons Budget £1800 including all the spannering and parts fortunatley the last engine i brought for the Hornet was £80 so not the end of the world.

Ian

[andye30m3]

I'm an architectural technician, running an E30 320 next year in production BMW hoping the years budget will be in the region of £5K, entry fees alone are just over £2k but my sprint entry fees last year were similar for 20 events but for a fair bit less less running time.

Have a friend who's going to run the car in another series which should cut the costs down a fair bit

[roddo]

I own a garage. Fortunately as I've won in 2010/2011 lots of the guys I race against want me to set-up/build cars for them. This pays for my racing.....

I spend aprox 10k pa

[gordon17]

24
Bookatrack Race Mechanic
Westfield Racecar - 750MC series.
Budget - up to £2k depending on how many event I can get to!

[djroadboy]

andy rob said:

Hi, struggling self employed motor trader, trying to run a ford falcon V8 super(expensive)car in a few rounds of both classic thunder & eurosaloons.
Trying to do it on a shoe string budget with a not so cheap car, one expensive breakage or crash & thats me out for the season

Exactly the same for me Andy.

Racing a Lotus is never cheap!

Hope to see you at Croft sometime this year.

Dan

[thunderbelmont]

Self Employed vehicle communications specialist, budget? what's that? hand to mouth!, typically costs between £1K and £2K per round to run either my V8 Belmont Thundersaloon, or my ASCAR, plus entries, transport, etc.. depending what I'm doing club racing wise.

Double that for bigger events.

Time is my biggest enemy, my racing has been curtailed by fairly easily fixable faults, which take me anything up to a year to sort out because my work, family, and other interests take up a lot of time. While I have some helpful friends who come along and help out at race meetings, the prep of the car is all by my own hand. Right now I'm just in the thick of a project that will keep me burning the candle at both ends for about 8 weeks, following that is another one..... It'll soon be xmas at that rate!

[JamesHayward]

Exhibition Organiser - part of the Autosport International / PH Team.

Looking to run in Time Attack this year - budget of 5k needed. Looking to do this as a mix of sponsorship and my own wallet although I can imagine I'm going to be eating super noodles for the foreseeable future!

[Shoestringracer]

Jerry Can said:

I work as an Area Manager for a VM.
Budget this year will be about the same as last- £1800. That's for 5 races and 4 hillclimbs. Hopefully I will win my championship again, this year.

Seems very good value. What championship do you do?

Chris

[Jerry Can]

Shoestringracer said:

Seems very good value. What championship do you do?

Chris

class 8 of Gurston hillclimb championship, and the SEMSEC Meridian Challenge.

[Soul Reaver]

IT Manager/consultant in Switzerland
Director of own internet business

First season in a home built Clio 182 in track day trophy (Home built apart from cage and wiring)
Car cost over 25k to build
Being run by Bubble and Kick at 5500 for the year plus entry fees etc so total race budget this year I would expect to be about 10k

[migliacars]

31 years old on the 18th march donations welcome.
self employed joiner not worked for 4 months if you need me call.
running a very quick a series metro in the nsscc also if it stays together may do some classic thunder.
spent all my budget now if there is a problem with the car im gonna be a spectator, new baby and interest rates are not helping me.


i gonna do what melinder messenger does and go round asking for freebies if it works for her surely it will work for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snorkel sucker]

Some inspiring posts on here! What series do people think gets you most bang for your buck, so to speak? Something like the MR2 series seems to get mentioned a lot...