How much would you say it cost you each year to run your car on track days / racing?? I'm just interested weather you know roughly how much each track day cost? I'm going only for the basics, I don't want to compare your yearly servicing, insurance (unless you you pay per track day) or replacement parts cos I know those things could be endless Just one of those things thats interested me!
Cadwell park cost me: 120 for the day 40 fuel from mine to GVK's to Cadwell to Home again 50 fuel day Marginal wear to Ferrodo pads and slicks 30 for the sill trim i broke 10 for the photo CD
i have to pay a bit more of track days as i live in jersey and i have to travel to france for mine. However for motorsport eg springing and hillclimbing over here 38 entry, plus fuel, plus any repairs. as for tyres, slicks if u wanna go fast, or part worn road tyres if u wanna bottom about! (i'll hopefully have slicks for my next track day, but still take a spare set of rims and tyre to bottom about in!!
The last tintop I looked after the owner reckoned the absoloute basic cost to run for a season was 12-15k.
Places like Brands, Snett, Donny etc i have to do over 2 days so the cost is higher. Track day 150-200 Car fuel 50 Van fuel60 Tyres and brakes 150 (perday) B&B 50 Food and bar bill 60 Odd's and sod's30 Thats 550-600 per day A one day trip to Combe is about 400 ish After working that out im off to kill myself [:^(] Edited by: Mad 20v
Sorry.... well thats interesting, I'd guesstimate about 300-350 a day that without building the car, and major maintenance I know it's worth every penny though
Good question. Ignoring cost of the day & geting there etc as that all differs- from entry at 100 to 350 per day & travel from say at 5 to get there/back to say 70. So I'd say for each day its been pretty much a set of pads at 30 & a tank of juice at say 30 & an oil change at roughly 12 per day. = 72 I've had a set of worn road tyres that somehow with carefull swapping about ive had about 4 days out of, illigal for road now- but still got some track life left so call it roughly 5 days on 150 of tyres = roughly 32 per day. Killed 1 slick in 2 half days use= 20 so call it =10 per day + 32 72 10 114 per day in consumbles aghh im sure there is more so stopping adding up now! The setting up of a car so it can take track abuse tho, & teh upgraditus as you improve the set up- now thats a different & rather higher budget question! Edited by: iguana
Costs similar to the above i suppose. All approx. Trackday costs - 100-200 Petrol, inc there and back - 90 1/2 a set of pads - 15 minimal wear to slicks - 10 Most trackdays for me need a overnight stay so - 50 Grub and beer - 40 Extra running costs for bits that fall off - Ave 25 So (gulp) about 380 and i try to do about 1 trackday a month, so no wonder i'm always skint. [:^(]
I've done day at Cadwell, 3 sessions of Combe, whatever mileage we did at Bruntingthorpe and a fair few road miles on the 48s and they're noticeably ermmm WORN [:^(]
Cadwell: aprox cost..... 2x 888's = 183 2x 1/2 worn 48's on the rear = 125 fuel on circuit = 90 (200 miles on circuit) fuel to get to circuit and back = 30 fuel for van = 20 track day cost 120 total aprox 550 and the same for Croft as the front 48's cost more than the 888's
I use part worn slicks which cost anywhere between 15-35 each and if you run them down to the canvas i usually get between 4-6 trackdays out of them.
