Poorvette Racing
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Happy New Year Everyone!
I'm currently in a dilemma and hoped some of you more experienced bench racers can provide some wisdom.
For a little background information, over the last year I have built a car and worked my way through the novice program. Shying away from the advice of many I decided to build a Corvette to AP specs because I was already driving a vette and frankly just like the car. Following my novice races I found that there were no drivers running AP so I decided to run ITE instead but kept the car at AP specs. This now puts me in a position where, due to the open nature of ITE, my car is not going to hang with the Big Boys of ITE until I make some real upgrades to the stock powertrain.
So here in lies the dilemma. Do I upgrade my vette to run with the big boys in a class with spotty run group size or do I bite the bullet and buy a Ground Pounder? From a dollars and cents perspective you can pick up a respectable GPounder for not much more than I will be spending upgrading my current car, from a maintenance and repair perspective the Gpounders seem much cheaper to maintain, and from a competition perspective there seems to be quite a bit of SPO/GT1 participation. Other than the emotional attachment to my current car i'm having a hard time with finding a reason not to move up.
The questions I have are ... As an up and coming racer is moving in to something like a Gpounder going to stunt my development as a driver? For those currently running stock cars, do you have any regrets? Hind sight being 20/20, would you have gone another direction? Is there anything about a purpose built car that keeps any of you away?
Thanks,
I'm currently in a dilemma and hoped some of you more experienced bench racers can provide some wisdom.
For a little background information, over the last year I have built a car and worked my way through the novice program. Shying away from the advice of many I decided to build a Corvette to AP specs because I was already driving a vette and frankly just like the car. Following my novice races I found that there were no drivers running AP so I decided to run ITE instead but kept the car at AP specs. This now puts me in a position where, due to the open nature of ITE, my car is not going to hang with the Big Boys of ITE until I make some real upgrades to the stock powertrain.
So here in lies the dilemma. Do I upgrade my vette to run with the big boys in a class with spotty run group size or do I bite the bullet and buy a Ground Pounder? From a dollars and cents perspective you can pick up a respectable GPounder for not much more than I will be spending upgrading my current car, from a maintenance and repair perspective the Gpounders seem much cheaper to maintain, and from a competition perspective there seems to be quite a bit of SPO/GT1 participation. Other than the emotional attachment to my current car i'm having a hard time with finding a reason not to move up.
The questions I have are ... As an up and coming racer is moving in to something like a Gpounder going to stunt my development as a driver? For those currently running stock cars, do you have any regrets? Hind sight being 20/20, would you have gone another direction? Is there anything about a purpose built car that keeps any of you away?
Thanks,