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Hawt damn! Pricing is way better than I had been led to believe. The want is STRONG!

 

If that is the case it is a shame how the market got inflated here.

I wonder what the purchase price if you race IMSA

 

How many sets of these Michelin slicks will need be used per day to be competitive? One? two? How much are they going to cost per set?

 

Be right back... gotta go plant some more money trees...

And five lugs to boot. Yee haw.

 

1 set a day
approx $2600/set give or take

 

Not a surprise. With all the other costs being discussed regarding the initial cost of getting into this class, the hope of a class that a less than rich club racer could get involved in went out the window. Too bad.

 

Those classes are known as SP1 and Spec Miata.

 

Car is 111k plus the seat
Plus the air jacks
Plus the 100 litre tank
Plus the Spare wheels

All plus vat

So it's not 111k

 

Phils Tire lists them for ~$2000 per set. Same as 997 cup sizes?
Not sure if its the exact same tire


PTS

 

2 new sets a weekend if you want to win minimum

 

With the 2 set of tires per weekend this get crazy expensive crazy fast. Let's be generous and say the tires costs $2000 per set and you race 8 weekends a year. That is $32,000 just in tires.

I can run a lot of classes for a whole season on half the tire budget of the Cayman GT4 Club Sport class alone.

I was hoping that the every aspect of running in this class would cost much less than running a Cup Car. So far, it seems the running costs will about the same except for engine and tranny expenses...and I am not even sure about that. As of now, it seems the only big cost savings is the initial buy in.

 

Exactly.

 

I don't know how anyone thought that a brand new factory built racecar was going to have anything but equivalent to Cup Car tire costs. Engine and gearbox will be cost savers. But brakes and tires will be on par with a Cup. There was never any chance it would be any other way.

 

I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see anyone in Europe who commited to the GT4 CS chime in on the real costs. I bet its about the same or more than $200K after VAT.

Its like when any car manufacturer announces base price for any car. Has anyone bought a street GT4 for $84k??