Fuel Prices & Car Counts

[Steve Stasko]

The financially conscious racer does not own a motorhome.

[cad]

I bought my first diesel pickup in 2007 when fuel was 4.55 per gallon here in Nebr/Iowa. I always use the GasBuddy app on my phone. It is crowd sourced for the current station prices. It is useful everywhere, and I always attempt to fill up at the lowest priced, quality station.

Clark

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by Steve Stasko

The financially conscious racer does not own a motorhome.

Really
But I don’t need a hotel. An restaurant a bathroom
And I don’t need to buy racetrack food
I like to be as comfortable as possible
That’s why I work to race and piss my$$$ away

Enjoy the rain when your sitting in you trailer or pick up truck
I will had you a towel

[Steve Stasko]

Originally Posted by James Perrone

Really
But I don’t need a hotel. An restaurant a bathroom
And I don’t need to buy racetrack food
I like to be as comfortable as possible
That’s why I work to race and piss my$$$ away

Enjoy the rain when your sitting in you trailer or pick up truck
I will had you a towel

That's fine, and you're absolutely entitled to that. It's America, we have that freedom (for now?).

I also don't doubt that "common folks" have motorhomes.

We're not financially conscious racers though. We've got cars that were specifically built to compete in a certain class. We travels hundreds of miles from home, to spend 3-4 days at a track to compete in one race for that class we built a car for. We pay $200 for an entry, to maybe win $1500 and some contingency if we're lucky enough to go that far.

It's a lot more financially conscious to leave a bracket car parked in a trailer all year at Maple Grove, enter the Money Trail for $75/race, and run for the $2000 payout. What fun would that be though?

[ssracer3821]

Originally Posted by James Perrone

Really
But I don’t need a hotel. An restaurant a bathroom
And I don’t need to buy racetrack food
I like to be as comfortable as possible
That’s why I work to race and piss my$$$ away

Enjoy the rain when your sitting in you trailer or pick up truck
I will had you a towel

The last year we raced with a truck and not a motorhome we spent over $6600 in motel rooms - that made the payments for a year on the motorhome.

[442OLDS]

Originally Posted by ssracer3821

The last year we raced with a truck and not a motorhome we spent over $6600 in motel rooms - that made the payments for a year on the motorhome.

How many races did you go to?
$6600 for motel rooms?
I find some of the hotel rewards programs can really add up for complimentary rooms.
My parents used to have a motorhome and literally something would break every week.

[thomas r polk]

Every onei know that ownes a mh has it break down alot' my frend jef had a smart steering wheel go ou last year cost him over4k to get it fixed. Jimmy bridges had his genarator nearly fall out of his mh. Heandi went st louis a few years ago and we had to change every filtere on the mh. Thomas baker bought a mh in ala it shut down on the way home. A year later he finally fie at a cost of10k.i like my one ton and trailer

[Lenny5160]

My very modest toterhome has been very good for my four years of ownership, but it’s costing me $13k/yr before I do any maintenance or turn the key. That’s an awful lot of motel rooms.

Thankfully that math will improve dramatically in a couple years.

[Cdncarnut]

After years of towing an enclosed trailer with a pickup and sleeping in my trailer, I bought a small Class C motorhome.
I used it for a year, before the "COVID pause" and sold it last year.

What I found was that it added to the expense of racing, complicated my towing, as I needed a Toad, and was just one more thing to get ready before heading out.
The extra bit of comfort, which it provided, was not worth it.

With everything opening up this year, I am back to my pickup, cot and Coleman stove.

Each to their own though.

[Randy Wells]

One thing I noticed over the last couple years. Is the tracks seem to think everyone has a Motorhome, and has cut way back on Santolets, Nobel had one set up at the staging lanes, they have nice restrooms at the concession areas but thats it, I sleep in my trailer, have a Murphy Bed that converts to a couch, but will say Saturday Morning was 31 degrees and was as good as a cold shower for waking you up.

Randy Wells
I/S 5628