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Originally Posted by nostatic
Start with a large one. I swear that some of the POC guys either bust 7 figures or have huge trust funds. I know guys who do it on a reasonable budget but they are DIY types or own garages. Checkbook drivers like me need some serious bank to run w2w...and I hit my limit.
I still would like to have a flat 6 though. Reverting the car is a non-starter now that it has a welded full cage in it. Point of no return was probably when I went to f/g. The good thing is my last event was Infineon where I won my class on both Saturday and Sunday. And the Sunday race I passed in turn 10 of the last lap to pull off the win. The highlight though was winning at Laguna Seca, beating a 6 car class field. So the memories are sweet.
Then there was the accident at Infineon that almost killed one of our guys, and another one at Vegas this last event where a guy hit some oil and was a passenger, slamming the wall. I dodged one bullet on the Duc. I figure I went three clean seasons...that's enough for now.
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Driving around a track is fun, but I've pretty much lost interest in being a club racer. Actually, the decision is made for me by lack of $$ and time, but even if I could afford it I wouldn't do it. Time has gotten to be the hot commodity as I get older, and that is a time/$$/energy-sucking hobby. If you add-up the time it takes to make the $$ to be a Porsche club racer+ the actual time doing it, it's staggering. Fine if you love it that much, but hobbies in general bore me. I'm happy to do a DE once in a while and maybe buy tires more often. If my Porsche got eaten by a rabid sea lion tomorrow I'd miss it, but it would also be a mixed blessing. I agree w/ Mike that MCs provide mucho mas bang for the buck and are a lot more fun. AND you can take them to the track, as well. Definitely a lot more fun on the street.
The only way I'd ever do the club racing thing now is if I found myself really rich and could do it w/ little or no extra time working for the funds and buy a car that is ready to rumble out of the gate, like a new GT-3. No build-your-own or upgrade fever schit for me, life is too short. The $$ you have in that car buys a perfect 996 GT-3 track-prepped + about $10Gs worth of fuel. But serious fun was had, so it's not all loss.
