![]() ![]() 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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