Wanting to get in to racing....

Im with Kesler on this one.....Worked for me!

 

No mention of turbo 'Busas...

what is this world coming to?

-jim

 

Nancy...

 

You are absolutely correct, I don't know what the hell I was thinking. My apologies, all.

 

At least Kesler didn't say a 400 vfr Honda.

 

If you can find one for a thousand bucks...

 

Will he tow it with a big gay truck though?

That's the question that must be answered.

 

With, or without a blown engine?

 

Good luck, man! Conserve your money, this shit ain't cheap. I finally got my act together and got out on the track a bunch last year. I took the STAR Racing School (great school) specifically to get my WERA license, then lost my job when the economy was teetering on total collapse. When I realized that it would take a minimum of $5000 to do the full WERA West season without crashing even once, I decided that I will wait until I finish school and get a real job. Then I'll be able to race AND eat!

I'm not even bothering right now because I can't do it the right way, as in being fully committed to learning the sport, and getting as much track time as humanly possible by doing near every event, and not having to choose whether to buy new tires to be for the next event, or pay pesky rent.

Point being, do a realistic analysis of the costs involved with this sport and your budget and make sure you have enough money to do it the right way. Some guys here will probably tell you to take your cost analysis and double it. They're likely correct. I did a fair bit of work on an Excel spreadsheet to figure out my budget. I can send you that if you PM me your email and you can play with it and adapt it to your needs. Hopefully others will have something written down that they're willing to email to you also.

 

Ow ow ow...that was a low blow.

Right way? Nobody ever told me there was a "right way", guess I've been doing it the "wrong way" for several years. Never mind I've had a ton of fun, gotten faster, taken a few trophies home and made some good friends, now that I see the error of my ways.