How do you get into racing?
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Saturday night short track NASCAR, Vintage followed by two seasons 1/8 mile dirt LTO Karts. That covers the first 52 years.
The last 18 I have built for and supported other's racing dream.
A friend recently passed, after retiring he started visiting the local indoor kart track. Once he held the track record he took
professional driver schools and when he felt he was ready he bought a race car. He left his wife with over 1/4 million in cars
trailers truck and spares. I think she has one super track day car with spares not sure it includes trailer. $65,000. Steve (CTR)
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Lots of enthusiast webites out there with forums.
I'm on the super budget end of wheel-to-wheel racing, so I do 24 Hours of Lemons but there are other organizations for entry level racing (no real license required) like Lucky Dog Racing League and Chump Car (aka Champ Car) and WRL World Racing League. You can jump on someone's team as a guest driver by joining their online forum and asking who has a seat available for rent in an upcoming race.
Some groups offer annual racing certification classes like VARA Vintage Auto Racing Association that included classroom and track time. HSR Historic Sportscar Racing has something similar I believe, and I think so do the Spec racing series like Spec Miata. Some of those organizations have a means to do "arrive and drive", which is you pay your $ and someone else takes care of preparing a car and bringing it to the track for you and maintaining it through the weekend.
Really, it only takes $ and ambition. If you have a lot of both, you should find it very easy to get more track racing time. If you are low on either, it will take more time, but still achievable.
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I've just came back from a level 2 porsche track experience where I had the opportunity to drive GT3 cars to their limit on a track. It was an amazing experience, and I wish all of you a chance to experience the sheer forces and speed that comes with that. I also did quite well and it all left me wanting more. Now, I live in a farely large city (600k+) but there are not many tracks around me and while my car is sport-ish I wouldn't want to track it and I do not want to spend money on a dedicated track car just yet. I want to test my skills and see if I could become more competetive at racing, so I was thinking of starting with go-karting or buying a proffesional sim rig and getting into simracing. How did you get into racing? Can I translate my experience from gokarts or simracing into real world?