Production S1 - yearly budget / car types
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Good question and I think that the regulations may well be clarified to greater detail for 2006 but in essense Production is for saloon cars (not GT's) that are fairly standard.
Budget for running depends if you want to win or just turn up and take part but I guess if you take a worse case of £5000 per meeting then you'll not be far off the pace.
Budget for running depends if you want to win or just turn up and take part but I guess if you take a worse case of £5000 per meeting then you'll not be far off the pace.
£5000 per race meeting! I assume that includes fuel, transportation. entries etc. etc. Thats serious money. The reason I was asking was that I am trying to see how viable this would be for next year, I thought the production S1 was the cheapest of the Brit car classes? Or maybe this is the cheapest.?
If you factor in the cost of say one engine / gearbox / diff rebuild, 1 crash damage repair per season, then work out the depreciation of the car and add all that to the cost of (say) 3 sets of tyres per race, Brake consumable, fuel, transport, team, prep time, then even the the tightest budget team must be looking at circa £3-5k per race. You could win though!
We race very successfully in S1 and it can be done from £2500 but as stated if you want to win you need a very efficeint team and plenty of tyres so £4500 £5000 is about right.
If as I suspect they decide to stay a "CHALLENGE" and not a championship in 06 the rules will frankly mean as much as they do at the moment regardless of what they change. Just make sure what ever you race is only quick enough for class 3 or 4, balast it up if you need to drop pace but if you start going into class 1 and 2 your talking sequential boxes and generally trickier cars despite how they look outside.
If as I suspect they decide to stay a "CHALLENGE" and not a championship in 06 the rules will frankly mean as much as they do at the moment regardless of what they change. Just make sure what ever you race is only quick enough for class 3 or 4, balast it up if you need to drop pace but if you start going into class 1 and 2 your talking sequential boxes and generally trickier cars despite how they look outside.
dank said:
£5000 per race meeting! I assume that includes fuel, transportation. entries etc. etc. Thats serious money. The reason I was asking was that I am trying to see how viable this would be for next year, I thought the production S1 was the cheapest of the Brit car classes? Or maybe this is the cheapest.?
It would be easier to go about this the other way..how much money do you have to spend?
We looked at this and the best we could get the costs down to was £2,250 / weekend, as mentioned tyres are the biggest cost but it can be done especially if you find a regular supply of cheap Dunlop's, i believe the engine limit is being increased to 3.2 next year so i'd expect most of the Britcar E36 M3's to coming into S1 which would mean even greater costs if you want to be competitive!
Tyres are always going to be the biggest single expense and having a single tyre supplier means that cost is going to be higher as you can't do a deal with another supplier who has a desire to get involved.
I can see what Dunlop get out of the tyre deal but where does it benefit the racers?
I can see what Dunlop get out of the tyre deal but where does it benefit the racers?
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