tommySTI wrote:My advice would be to work out the budget for the trackdays themselves then see what's what.
Remember to include the trackday, trackday petrol, petrol to the track, servicing and consumables (oils, brake discs and pads, tyres), a 'sorting out' fund (bushes, bearings etc) and a breakages fund.
It all adds up very quickly.
i'll stick my neck out and say that if you where to run a spread sheet on this over a season of say 10 trackdays
Wouldn't bother with a shed as gettting it up to track day spec will cost in the long run nothing worse than haveing a broken car at an event after shelling out loads for the day as you have cut corners. You will end up modding it in the end, seats harneses add up and this is just basics add tyres etc and you could have got something half prepped. Miss out on a few track days and get your self something someone has opened there wallet too....
" Uh Betty you should of seen this car in Ely today!! it had stickers and stripes
all over it, and when it started up, the noise!!!, I could feel my teeth rattling!!!"
The more trackdays you do the cheaper they seem to get! Well for me they did as in the beginning you start with cheap brakes and then the initial outlay for decent brakes, then the cars weaknesses soon show up and after sorting these and giving it a service / cambelt you can get that cost out of the way...
Then it gets to the stage where if youve bought decent discs you can get away with just changing pads every couple/few sessions and tyres and you will know the car better by this point and know what it "could do with" and what it needs to keep it just track worthy. And instead of full services / oil changes are all you think of for most of the year..
Also are you going to trailer it or want it roadworthy and then an MOT / Tax comes into it... Never a Cheap way of doing track days unfortunately!!!
i'll stick my neck out and say that if you where to run a spread sheet on this over a season of say 10 trackdays
