Monster wrote:
In fact Daz (my engine and everything else builder and ex TA driver, and Steve (ex TA supra and arrowpacks racer) are both looking at radicals, or sharing one.
I'm not familiar with the car you're thinking about but for track fun it sounds like a good option. You can also get trick westfields etc for that sort of dough. you can go very fast with these kind of cars for not much money, although I'm interested to see (as I don't know anyone who's done it but you're mate with the radical seems a good example) what the actual costs of running these kind of cars are for a year of fun, rather than racing.
I had long chat with Jamie yesterday and broached the subject of Radical running costs, to be honest it was less than I thought though there are many variables to consider.
For purely track day use working off an assumption of 40 hours use between engine rebuilds the breakdown was as follows:
- Cost of Radical = varies drastically from