Operating costs

[loftygoals]

Last night my co-driver and I sat down and totalled up our routine operating costs per hour. This includes wear items like tires, brakes, etc and consumables, gas, oil, and etc. The number did not include any padding for break/fix issues. So our number worked out to $120 / hr. Not too bad. So a typical race weekend sees the car operating for 80 minutes or 1.33 hrs. That means a typical weekend is $160 in operating cost. Again, not bad. Now if I could just keep from breaking things maybe I could enjoy some of this affordable racing I've heard about with this class.

 

-bj

[Sterling Doc]

Last night my co-driver and I sat down and totalled up our routine operating costs per hour. This includes wear items like tires, brakes, etc and consumables, gas, oil, and etc. The number did not include any padding for break/fix issues. So our number worked out to $120 / hr. Not too bad. So a typical race weekend sees the car operating for 80 minutes or 1.33 hrs. That means a typical weekend is $160 in operating cost. Again, not bad. Now if I could just keep from breaking things maybe I could enjoy some of this affordable racing I've heard about with this class.

 

-bj

 

 

Good info. You didn't break much last weekend, so your getting there!

 

One good thing for all of us to compile would be a list of things that should be replaced when building a race car, from rod bearings to a fuel filter (that little item might have cost you a race).

 

It looks like we may have 7 cars at R.A., and I'll be (really) ready to go again for Road America. I'll even be sportin' new paint and graphics

 

[944-Spec#94]

Here is what I came up with back in 2006.

 

 

I have $330 per day, but that includes entry fees. So take that out and those numbers are pretty close to double yours, but it may include more long term maintenance.

 

It took my a few years before the car turn solid reliable. I start running my car in October 2000 in autocross then DE and then race. By May 2003 the car was solid reliable and just ran. Before that I might have one minor issue a weekend. I fixed it and moved on. Over that time I missed maybe 4 sessions due to mechanical issues. Not bad considering. After that the just ran like clockwork. Eric can tell you how much I "worked" on my car at Miller.

 

My car starte as a junker that I dragged home it it needed ALOT of work and when I built it was really cheap so I did the minimum and fixed issues as they came up.

[Spec944 #143]

The first rule in fight club..err wrong forum. I want this post deleted immediately and I will deny its existance to my wife. when she asks me how much I spend on racing I want honestly answer I don't know.

[Chuck T.]

and with midwest region sponsorship its less than that

[Sterling Doc]

BJ's been taking home some money, though his big-block Suburban eats that up!

 

$800 cash from VFC, Doc's & Ekquist + $400 Toyo + $650 CDOC + $150 Hawk this weekend alone! 2K in one weekend!

[944-Spec#94]

The first rule in fight club..err wrong forum. I want this post deleted immediately and I will deny its existance to my wife. when she asks me how much I spend on racing I want honestly answer I don't know.

 

 

Just tell her it only costs that that much for the other guys. You have sources to get stuff even cheaper?

 

 

 

Seriously.

As we all know by now. No form of racing is "cheap". It all takes money. 944 spec racing however is the cheapest way you can race a Porsche and is also about as cheap a way as you can get our on to the track and race any car. This does not even bring up sponsor benefits available to us.