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Originally Posted by rustomatic
I'm glad to see somebody approaching this topic with a rational cost analysis relative to the cost of regular club-type track days. For autocross time (plus speed-stop, if you don't mind burning up your equipment in the stop box), USCA offers good stuff, so long as you're not paying for the full weekend. As for the track experience, so long as you live within reasonable distance of a track or two, the price (of participating in a USCA event) is just not all that great. Sometimes, people's competitive nature just creates a grotesquely mediocre fight to be king of the dipsticks (there's another, better 16 Candles term, but it would be dirty); when you come to this conclusion, and you're not one of those who's determined to put a dog in the cock fight, you find a more realistic venue for having fun speeding (like a regular track day, which usually offers more track time than most people/cars can take) . . .
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Agreed with these points as well. I prefer running track days, it give me more seat time in an event I want to participate. Good Guys is frustrating because the cater to the Pros and you sit around a lot. Local AX is a lot of work all day for 5-6 runs which makes GG better. It's up to each person.
This last weekend I drove in my first Lemons race. You want to talk about getting some track time with competition, it's a pretty good way to do it. I ran the shortest driving stint due to blowing a clutch and having to swap it out but still got 1hour 45min of non stop seat time. Others on my team ran for 2.5-3 hours. Not to mention this was while going head to head with other drivers which was awesome. It was a blast and definitely something I'll do again.
I'm also seriously considering NASA CMC or AI. For the cost to make my 72 competitive in other events I can buy a true NASA race car that's safer than what I have and have a blast. Not saying I won't still compete in other areas, I just don't think I'll be putting a huge effort into it going forward.