kyle_nickels
"The Okie"
Sure makes me appreciate my little ol' Datsun 510.
If I were to buy a truck to replace this one, I think I could easily get by with a smaller (read: more fuel effiicent truck) that has a tow-rating of 5000 lbs. Sure, I won't have as much tow capacity margin and not a whole lot of room for growth for, say, a future heavier race car, but I tend to prefer small, light cars so this might not be an issue.
Colin if you need quiet to sleep well PIR may not be a good location to try and stay in the van if its not raining the late night drags can go till midnight i think....
You are correct, Driver.
But, they have an ever 'lowering' noise limit as the night goes on. By about 10:00 PM they are down to 'street legal' muffler systems only. At that point, if you're up on the hill in the woods a little you can hardly hear the cars but, you still 'notice' the motor cycles (which are totally halted by about 10:30or 11:00).
It's "increments of" around our home. Used to be $10 when it was bicycle racing. Then dirt bikes, and the increment went up to $100s. Racing a late model or GT car, now it's increments of $1000. Of course, some of that is for steaks and cocktails. Oh, at the current rate of wear, my brakes on the ground pounder will last at least 3 seasons, rotors and believe it or not, the pads too. Endurance spec (pagid RS19 ceramics) pads, and a s**tload of cooling make the difference.
So maybe I'll get something like a used Toyota Tacoma 4x4 for the next tow vehicle? But I'd have to do some research to see how these trucks hold up to towing 4000-4500 on a semi-regular basis. Transmission repair isn't cheap!
I'm planning on racing at the Spokane Triple and I'm expecting that weekend to cost a pretty penny. What's great about that weekend though is that I only have to pay for travel and lodging for 1 weekend but get 3 races so that helps the "cost-per-entry" equation.
I think calculating by the hour is the best way to budget your race sheet.... where I live it averages for endurance racing with my car 1000.00 per hour. Sprints were 1,600.00 per hour.