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Originally Posted by shoooo32
I support vintage cars in SVRA, HSR, etc. It's insane how much money it costs to go racing at that level. Event fees with a test day are touching $2k and a garage rental at places like COTA are $2500. You're over $4k and you haven't left the house, prepped the car, bought tires, fuel, brakes, paid the crew, hotels, meals, etc.
You can have 80% of the fun of wheel to wheel at a track day for 10% of the cost of a top tier vintage weekend.
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A friend with plenty of money can't understand how much I spend vintage racing. And how often the old cars are breaking.... He's been trying to get me to buy a spec Boxster and run track days with him. I hear him, but I think I will miss the wheel to wheel competition. And things like just missing big pile ups, punting a friend, almost driving into into a berm with a stuck brake caliper coming down from 100+ mph, losing a front wheel at 90 mph.... I've been vintage racing for 25 years so I've seen a lot of fun? With 600 hp in 60's technology it's dicey at times. This replaced my motorcycle days so I enjoy all of this.
But the common deal that ends this for vintage racers is the big off and a trip to the hospital, be it 4 hours or 10 days. We never see them again. I'm trying to avoid this!