Ryujin
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Never raced but 8 racing schools qualify me for a license, while over 20 years of track photography told me why I shouldn'tMy cousin's husband used to race dragsters.
Never raced but 8 racing schools qualify me for a license, while over 20 years of track photography told me why I shouldn'tMy cousin's husband used to race dragsters.
Racing costs as much money as you are willing to put into it. Takes a great deal of discipline not to spend that next paycheck on something cool/hot/fast or just to replace something worn. Like Tires! Tires are crazy, you can go anywhere from a set of street tires you drive home to thousands of dollars per race (i.e. F1, Indy, Nascar, etc).I should also note that there is a way to burn through money faster than WH40K, car modding, or boats. It's racing. I've seen more than a few motorcycle racers burn through a second mortgage in a season, then never come back to the track again. I'd hate to think what racing cars would cost.
Winner gets a bag of cheese curds?From Minneapolis so naturally we ice race here.
I would never do motorcycles. I require 4 wheels, and even then I am not casual about safety like so many others are. Sure nomex and a firesuit, gloves and shoes are hot, but all it takes is once. I've seen 2 car fires on the track in just a few years. No one ever hurt because the group I run with has its own safety truck w/ fire extinguishers never more than 60 seconds out and no one ever injured. But 60 seconds in a fully enveloped gas fire you don't survive unscathed without a full set of certified gear.while over 20 years of track photography told me why I shouldn't
If you want to be at least competitive even at amateur level, in sportbike racing, you're going through between $600 and $1200 worth of just tires per weekend. If you're a front runner, double that. Folks are wearing airbag suits now, to try and improve survivability in a crash. Two ambulances on site for a race weekend. At least one on a track day, for non racers.Racing costs as much money as you are willing to put into it. Takes a great deal of discipline not to spend that next paycheck on something cool/hot/fast or just to replace something worn. Like Tires! Tires are crazy, you can go anywhere from a set of street tires you drive home to thousands of dollars per race (i.e. F1, Indy, Nascar, etc).
How do you make a million dollars in racing? Start with two.
Winner gets a bag of cheese curds?
I would never do motorcycles. I require 4 wheels, and even then I am not casual about safety like so many others are. Sure nomex and a firesuit, gloves and shoes are hot, but all it takes is once. I've seen 2 car fires on the track in just a few years. No one ever hurt because the group I run with has its own safety truck w/ fire extinguishers never more than 60 seconds out and no one ever injured. But 60 seconds in a fully enveloped gas fire you don't survive unscathed without a full set of certified gear.
Back in the late 1990s, a guy was trying to hype up a business deal to me, claiming I could make enough money to buy whatever car I wanted. Then he asked me what that would be. A buddy of mine was sitting there, silently observing.A couple decades back, a few of my co-workers were having a discussion about their ultimate dream cars. One wanted a Lamborghini, another a classic Corvette Stingray, and so on. They dragged me into the conversation (I'm not a car guy), so I told them my dream car was probably a Dodge Caravan.
After much mockery about my "pedestrian" dream car, I pointed out that I was already driving around in my dream car, while they would have to wait for theirs, if they in fact ever managed to get one.
They pretty much left me alone after that when it came to car discussions.
Johnathan