TaG typically runs a new set of tires both days, so at $220/set * 2 = $440. They’ll need 3 bottles of pre-mix to have enough oil for the gas, so that’s $20/bottle * 3 bottles = $60. Thankfully the fuel supplier sells 5 gallon drums at $60/drum. They’ll need a whole 5 more gallons of gas for this weekend. Race entry on site is $250, a reasonable price for regional racing.
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We’re looking at $2,000 frame + $4,000 club racing expenses = $6,000 for the third year.īut wait! There’s this super cool traveling series that comes in to the driver’s home track and they want to try cutting their teeth against the next level of competition. Still in club racing, everything else stays the same. Lets assume they sell their old frame for $1,000 and buy a new one for $3,000.
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Lets go to the third year of racing! Our hypothetical driver wants to get a newer frame. Second season of club racing will assume this person keeps all their equipment, because for the first couple years of racing having a top name brand really isn’t as important as the driver improving on their fundamentals. Practice costs wouldn’t be reaching $2,000 for a season. To get to your $10,000 estimate someone would have to spend $2,000 more than my overestimation including first time costs like buying a motor and chassis. Tuning advice at the track, especially for what a beginner needs, can be found for free. Total costs for the first season: $4,000 intial cost + $3,000 total raceday expenses + $420 engine maintenance + $500 parts = $7,920. This is maybe what I spend running regional and club combined). I’ve never had to replace an axle in my 4 years of karting, 2 of which I competed in both club and regional races, and this past year I ran a national race as well.
$500 in parts/season (again, very high estimate. Say tie rods are $20 each * 2 = $40, a steering column is $60, axles have a huge range but let’s say $250 for a new, more expensive axle, a nerf bar is $50, and a chain is $20/chain * 5 chains = $100. Parts: Off the top of my head, lets say driver has to replace 1 steering column, 2 tie rods, an axle, a bent nerf bar, and 5 chains (ouch) in a season as an average. This comes to $240 top end total + $200 bottom end = $420/per season If we assume $400 per bottom end, $200 per season. I’m going to round that to one rebuild every 2 seasons for math reasons.
I’ll round this to $250/race for nice and easy math purposesĮngine: Assuming an overestimate of 1 hour of engine time per club raceday, and a new piston kit every 6 hours at $120/kit (you can run the engines longer but the top end performance starts to drop), the driver would need 2 pistons/ year, so $240/year. Lets assume 2 so that we get to spend more money. For a club series, you could get 2-3 racedays out of a set of tires. Tires: MG Yellows or Evinco Reds (same tire), both cost $220/set. High estimate of 4 gallons means $72 per race $24/2 gallons and oil at $12 for 16oz = $36 for 2 gallons of mixed race gas. Gas: depends on the club, some use pump gas but I’ll assume race gas. Race entry: $65 a raceday for entry and pit pass Suit, shoes, helmet, neck brace, gloves, and rib protector
Lets say this driver wanted spends $500 for all their gear. Used frame, couple seasons old but still in good shape - $1,500ĭriver gear can be found used.
Okay, lets look at a 12-race club series, first year getting in. Regional racing totals out around $8,000 for 5 weekends of driving, 10 racedays in total. Essentially, club racing is about $4,000 to compete in given you have the equipment already. At that point the driver was competing both in both regional and local competitions. TL DR: I had to calculate 4 seasons of racing to finally find a point where an individual racing in X30 senior would be spending over $10,000 a year on karting. I’m also interesting in finding out how other people’s experiences relate to what I simulated. Now, I didn’t buy that for a second, so I tried doing some math to figure out average costs for running the first few years of karting. There was a claim that it costs $10,000 per year to run at a club level. So, basically, I got into an discussion about how much it costs to start racing.
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