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You could put Hoosiers on Jeff's car--hell, you could put an LS7 in the back--and it would still be no match for the modern cars, even with Fangio in it. Same with my 85.
Jeff--I think you made the right decision on the racecar. I started W2W in 2000, and even in a spec class (Spec Racer Ford) the costs were huge. I leased the car for $1800 a weekend. For that I got the car, tires (never new), and gas for the weekend, which consisted of a 20 minute practice session, 20 minute qualifying session, and then a 20 minute race the next day. Assuming nobody crashed and shortened the session or put it under yellow. Do the math and on a per-hour basis--Dershowitz money. That was before damages. I bought at least one new nose piece after being punted from behind into a tire wall during practice, plus with a radiator here and a tie rod there, things added right up. SRF was a full contact class. Email on Mondays after a race weekend was always a surprise.
I raced a Spec Miata that I owned in 2005, and found it to be a similarly huge expenditure for virtually no track time. I went back to DEs because I could get in triple the track time for less cost. At higher speeds, to boot!
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