This racing thing is expensive (Page 3 of 3)

Oohh, that's evil.  If I hadn't displayed willingness to get dirty to work on the car, I wouldn't have gotten a seat on the team.  All of the fun, none of the work, twice the guilt.  She's a master, your wife.  Holy crap - what's your mother in law like?

Another scary number - try to total up both the cost and quantity of beer consumed in and around racing.  (I think my liver just ran away in fear.)

I put the plasma cutter in my girlfriend's hands and let her have at it.  From the looks of it, she has some skills.  Our fins were crafted entirely by her and the plasma cutter.

I've begged, borrowed, stripped the bank accounts just to pull off a race. I'm pretty lucky to have a wife who doesn't stab me when i walk in the door. I tell ya, she keeps trying though. I'm just glad I don't need to consult speedycop for kevlar outerwear yet. yes, yes, I'm completely addicted. I guess the bottom line is that I'm either going to do this, or go pro and race IMSA. Since I'm fat and don't know any Rogers or AJ's or Marios, It means I'll be seeing you guys in April.

The nice thing about our Camaro is it's real familiar with the local short tracks. We can run all day every Saturday for $10.00 at our local paved oval.

If we want to run with the sporty car guys we have to pay Chin Motorsports $300. Sports car people just have way too much money.

Richard Newton
Speed TV Blog
Intervention Motorsports

She's positively ANGELIC. i think you need to figure out a way to clone her, and sell the clones off to racing addicts who got it bad.... AKA the rest of us.

^^^+1 .. my wife has horses ... lots of horses. She spends her $$$, I spend mine...

No this racing is CHEAP. Now don't go buying that $40K RV with $25K trailer to tow your $500 +$1500 Lemons car.

Look at it this way, you go drive an scca or Nasa car, you'll drop from $5K to ??? $150K for the car, maybe getting a few spares and if your lucky a flatbed trailer with a tire rack. Then you need the same drivers gear, well maybe a little better, because you have to look good, not just drive good. AND you get what 20 minutes of track time for warm up, 20 minutes for qualifying and a 20-40 minute race? 96 to 110 gas is $7-20 a gallon, and you change the oil in your race motor every weekend, right? Race slicks are what $200 each?

now Lemons: Lets see. $500 car, roll cage, seat, seat belt (maybe 2 sets for track days), two sets of wheels, tires for 2 sets, brake pads and spares, video camera, welding set, trailer, tools, extra JY parts = $2500 plus gas and other stuff for the weekend DIVIDED by 4 = $800 maybe

And you'll have more track time in a Lemons car in one track day (testing), not to mention in one weekend, than a whole year of scca or nasa.

Cheap, and let the wifey see how calm you are for the next week or two after you've burned off all that excess testosterone.

Apparently jmitch will defend himself and Dr. No won't.

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