Quote from Fordman :

I know this is the "real" shame about Motor racing. If people have raw talent, then they should get paid to drive, like they do, say in Football. A friend of Mine runs International Motorsport based at Snetterton, and they are a Van Dieman Team. £30,000 it costs for a season

Don't know what spec car that is but lower end formulas, like Formula Ford 1800 and F4 can be raced for about £15000 a season including the purchase costs of the car, if you have to be competitive in a front running car which is a tiny fraction faster then £30000 would just about cover the car. The problem with professional motorsport 5 years ago it would have cost 10 times the amount to run a Formula Ford in the National Championship by a professional team, the same car can now be run for a fraction of that in club motorsport and it is faster than it used to be due to running slicks These cars are about as fast as club motorsport goes and their still less than the top racing Caterhams and Mallocks that can just keep up.

Quote from Fordman :

@keiran

NIce peice of Kit you have there. I was running the Schumacher Cat2000 EC 4WD model on outdoor and indoor tracks. I used to use between a 12T ( Short, indoor Tracks ) right up to a 16T on the outdoor tracks. BUt my Fav was the Speedy 13T. Mtronik's contract, nice. I used there Speedo's, but ad 1700 Matched Cells.

As for Expensive, you not wrong there, reason I had to stop at National Level. New tyres for each Event, plus spares, plus crystals, plus more motors, batteries, event costs, petrol, etc etc, but absolutley loads of fun

Cool Will have to search for that model of car can't remember what it looks like

Running electric cars is pretty good in the respect that you just re charge them but after a year of hard racing they do begin to drop off and then you have to throw another £50-60 to get another set.

Next month I'll be entering our local clubs fund rasier for charity. It's a 4 hour team endurace race last year our team came 2nd after leading early on.

Keiran

i do also, over in the states. I race my subaru.