that’s something like $1000 in fuel costs during the race alone. lol
$3 x 7 gal/hour x 39 hours.
You will have me filing bankruptcy by the end of the summer. For sure.
I would not feel comfortable racing in someone elses car driving 10/10, but I do miss our affordable NYspeed track days. I would love to take my A8 into a competitivie race but it would not meet any of the safety guidelines in its current state I would imagine. I would hate to think how much fuel my car would go through in a 37 hour race. I burned 87 gal in 3 days of lapping HPDE and that is nothing like racing a endurance. I desperately need to get to more lapping days. i am feeling the itch again.
you’d need to cage it, fire system, remove most of the glass. It’s endurance racing so driving 10/10 is too much. This is me at 7/10 with little burst of 9/10ths. If you’re confident in your skills it’s no big deal to drive somebody else’s car as long as you have a clear agreement on damage. Racing is so much more memorable and worth the risk.
I literally had two track days and one auto cross session before entering Chump. If you can drive at 6/10 and not spin, you’ll be fine. It’s more about keeping the car in one piece than turning the fastest lap. Keeping the car out of racing incidents is way easier at a manageable pace rather than at 10/10.
We ran both days in this event with 3 people who have never raced in their lives, 4 people who had never driven this car before, 1 who had never driven at Watkins Glen. We finished in the top half of the field and class both days because we ran a majority of the 7 hours. 3 of our drivers were running 2:40 plus lap times, but were pretty good about being aware of the traffic around them. Nobody in our car ran 10/10ths, we would like to have all drivers hitting about 7/10ths for their full stints next race in Pittsburgh.
This is genuine interest.
I would love to do it at some point. Putting a cage in my car will be a interesting process with everything being aluminum, by a fire system do you mean extinguishers or a actual installed system? I have done well at managing my cars on course for the last several years. The last off course i can remember was at dunville in a neon… so it has been a long time.
Actual fire system with nozzles in the engine compartment and the driver’s area at a minimum.