Will Feather

Do you need a PCA membership and a NASA membership?

luckett

congrats! but learn to swim before you jump off the high dive. you haven't even done enough research to find the schedule, much less review rules and build costs.

don't be surprised if you drop 20K prepping and racing your first full season.

Mighty Shilling

Just NASA.

FRporscheman

Yeah, $300 well spent, I agree. I'm not exactly rolling in money, so I try to spend wisely. I think this will go a long way, as a fun time and also as a skill improvement. I don't think I'll be doing any other DEs soon though, since I'm trying to save money for an engine build.

M758

Az schedule for HPDE is the same as what is posted for 944 spec racing. We run HPDE on the same day as the races. http://www.clubracingaz.com/

Yes racing even in a "cheap series" can be expensive. Step 1 however is just to come out to the track and do DE days in stock car. Spend some time in DE and see how you like it and the costs come out. The cost for a DE entry fee is about $20 less than for racing. Of course car prep is more critial in racing than DE, but DE is the place to start. In NASA you can run DE on the same day as the racing so you still get to hang around all the racers. Most of our racer started in DE and did that for a year or more before racing. The good thing is that if you find yourself un able to afford DE then you know that before going on in with full up race car.

jaje

Racing isn't cheap - neither is owning a car that depreciates (poor asset to own). 944 Spec is inexpensive compared to most other racing series (even go karts and shifter karts!).

I'm building a 944 Spec car right now and with a bunch of local Kansas City guys we will develop a region and have some fun racing.

Tim Comeau

NASA's 944 spec class, which is the same rules as PCA Club Racing's SP-1 class, is growing all over the country because it's the cheapest and best set of 944 racing rules out there.
The car doesn't have to be fully spec'd out to start driving it in the 944 spec class.

JerryW

I ran much of 2007 in 944Spec with the stock suspension, until I was ready to put the whole race suspension in. Just get the safety equipment done and come out and have a blast.

Sterling Doc

Good point, Joel.

May 944 Spec Car, tow vehicle (VW Eurovan), and daily driver ('88 944S) put together cost less than my wife's A3, and are depreciating less. No they're not exotic, but all quite a bit of fun. Also there is some contingency money in racing Spec - over $2K per weekend in my region. Are you going to make money racing Spec - NO - but cheap consumables, and reliable cars help a lot. A 944 Spec Car recently ran the 25 hours of Thunderhill replacing only one set of tires, and front pads. Two set of tires, and 1.5 set of pads = <$1,500 dollors in tires and brakes for a 25 hour race! Many more expensive series spend more than that on less than 1/10th the track time (one racing weekend).

Drewsifer

This will probably be what I'll have to do. Little steps.

I don't think I'm diving before I can swim at all. I've allowed myself a year or so to get everything in order. And while I've "decided" to go racing, if things aren't working out I'm not going to press the issue. I just see this as a great opportunity. I have the car! And even when I eventually leave Texas, I can take the car with me. I've looked at the numbers, I've found the information. Now I just need to take little steps to get there. Thanks for the support guys! See you on the track (hopefully).