I broke the cardinal rule.. added up my race car expenses

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07-10-2011, 12:56 AM

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Bad Karma

WTF were you thinking??

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07-10-2011, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Glen

Cup car is always the cheapest route to race, I speak from massive experience...

Cup car cheaper than spec boxster?

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07-10-2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary R.

I think I was duped into it but I did it, let's just say I could have bought a new low end AUDI for what I spent on my lowly D Stock race car the past 6 months. Now I get to add in my engine rebuild and other stuff! I think I will reach 2006 Cayman numbers by yeas end.

Your costs are uniquely high and extraordinary.

Nobody has ever spent so much on motorsport.

I believe your anecdotal account is invalid.

Your expenses cannot be used as evidence against others.

Never speak of this again.

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07-10-2011, 03:43 PM

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I'm only doing DEs/open track/lapping days and when I look at my annual credit card statement it makes me want to throw up.

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07-10-2011, 05:01 PM

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Aw, c'mon... them's just numbers...

I like 333's solution. Spend faster than you can tally. Problem solved.

Gary, please no more errors of this magnitude.

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07-10-2011, 06:28 PM

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Cup car is always the cheapest route to race, I speak from massive experience...

What planet do you live on?

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07-11-2011, 09:08 AM

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Great quote from a friend:

" I take my receipts , put them in a box, then treat it like it's the Arc of the Covenant chest from the Indiana Jones movie "

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07-11-2011, 09:13 AM

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... "One day while moving it the lid fell off. I closed my eyes until I was able to get the lid back on."

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07-11-2011, 09:33 AM

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... "One day while moving it the lid fell off. I closed my eyes until I was able to get the lid back on."

Mine are all in a milk create on the bottom shelf of a cabinet in the garage. I can slip things in but I can not see in nor pull things out without moving it and I'm not about to do that.

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07-11-2011, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Larry Herman

Nothing personal to all you poor bastards out there who are growing our food, but choice A or B seems a lot more fun.

Don't worry - most of our food is coming from China these days anyway...

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07-11-2011, 07:18 PM

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Now if you really want to have fun divide that by number of stints and length of stints to figure out your cost per minute on track ... that will really make you pound your head

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07-11-2011, 07:23 PM

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Heading toward an 08 Audi TT as of today, should hit new R4 by year's end..

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07-11-2011, 10:08 PM

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Now if you really want to have fun divide that by number of stints and length of stints to figure out your cost per minute on track ... that will really make you pound your head

Adding up costs can be dangerous to a marriage. Adding it up against time on track could be fatal.

Only thing I have found that is worse for time spent getting ready over time spent doing is offshore wreck diving.

14 hours driving round trip, 2 round trips out and back in the boat 20 hours. Hour or more per dive deco time all for perhaps 40 min bottom time per dive. 4 dives per weekend. Finding brass porthole, priceless.

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