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Offline mattster03

Re: What to do after building competition vehicle?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2014, 05:43:53 PM »
I think the $2k/event minimum is high

I used to think that too!  Adds up pretty quick.
12-14 tires $1200-$1400 shipped (Each pair last 4 laps, 45 seconds of drifting a lap, 3 minutes of drifting a pair, or $1.11 a second. lol )
Mounting and balancing $180-$200
Entry fee $100
Pit crew $15 each, $60.
Gas in the truck $100 
Gas for the racecar, $60
Trailer Rental $60
Food for the day for everyone, $50.
Transmission, diff, and engine oil fluid: $75
$2175 already ... lol


Yeup, sounds like I got a plan though.  Definitely going to hit up some lemons racing and just do local events.   I really have no motivation to keep crushing it at pro-AM, really all you have to do is show up to each event and qualify to get top 3.  Basically just paying to win.   Thanks all!



Do you really make 24-28 laps around the track during an event?  Just wondering b/c I would really like to try it out sometime...
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Offline tweak

Re: What to do after building competition vehicle?
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2014, 06:17:10 PM »
Do you really make 24-28 laps around the track during an event?  Just wondering b/c I would really like to try it out sometime...

Well, not really "laps", you have seen it.  Just the nascar bank, the inside infield, and then a little hairpin.  4 of those, and you have to change rear or risk going into the wall / off track with sketchy tires. 



That is only a normal pro-am Event.  When FD comes to town (The ones you have watched me run in Mat), there is a whole day a practice before, then qualifying, then competition. That's a solid 16-18 tire weekend depending on how far you get into competition.  You always want to have extra tires, because the worst thing you could do is go far into competition and be forced to drive poorly, or not at all because you are out of tires.   I got through 1/2 my tires in a normal event, during practice.  We get an hour to get the car all setup for that track condition that day.  I have never been the most solid driver, so I would get as many runs as I could during practice, normally easily go through 2 or 3 pairs, then get 1 run on a new pair, so so they are ready for the qualifying run. 

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Offline frijolee

Re: What to do after building competition vehicle?
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2014, 07:50:40 PM »
Only 0.02 I have to add is that from friends who've run both Lemons and Chump.  They way they described it is that Lemon's is more of a circus and puts so many cars on track that success is mostly about staying out of trouble, where-as chump is less well publicized but generally has better racing of cheap cars.  Chump also lets you get away with a little more without getting black flagged.

BTW these were the guys who ran the Metro-Gnome.  They'd typically land podium provided the car didn't break.
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Offline largeorangefont

Re: What to do after building competition vehicle?
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2014, 07:55:13 PM »
The Metro-gnome is pretty sick. That thing has come a long way. I ran with them at a bunch of track days when the car was in its first iteration and they were gettin it dialed in (and my car had a rotary in it).
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Offline theantirotor

Re: What to do after building competition vehicle?
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2014, 10:24:16 PM »
and now for one of my favorite quotes in motorsports....



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