Fuel Prices & Car Counts

[Tex013]

my 2 cents from down here .
The commited racer will race effectively no matter the fuel cost .
I wish i was paying $4-5 a gallon . Last month i drove to a national event , 12hrs just over 600 miles each way .
98 pump gas averaged $2.35/L that = $9.40 a US gallon . My Satellite gets 10.5mpg on the highway .
Did i groan , yep . But it didnt stop me going .
And winning a xmas tree , class , and top qualifying took all the wallet pain away .
Only downside was shearing trans oil pump drive lugs a 100 miles from home .
We have not many tracks and a long way between . That trip is about the closest away track i run . December was 15hrs .

Tex

[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?

[B Parker]

Originally Posted by thomas r polk

I am retired 80 years old. Its 80 miles one way to bg 300 to indy. 500 plus to gainsville. I am really thinking about selling my truck trailer and race car. My truck get 10 miles towing my 36 ft goose neck. All most 150 dollars to bg round trip. I cant pay that plus food and entry. I have a friend jeff jensen has a diesel mh and run alot os points meet and national event last year and is looking for closer races this year

Tom god bless you. You made it to 80. And your still able to race. If I'm lucky enough to get to that age and I'm still able to race if it still exist. I'd be pissed if fuel prices are a rip off but I'm not going to let spending a few more thousand a year on fuel stop me from enjoying my last few years of life. I tell my friend all the time when he starts talking about not going to a race this year because of fuel money. The extra couple thousand you spend on fuel is not going to change a thing in your life. I don't plan on dying with a lot of money in the bank. BP

[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.

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by Steve Stasko

The financially conscious racer does not own a motorhome.

This is absolutely correct. I wouldn't go back to racing without one, but it can't be justified on finances alone.

[B Parker]

Originally Posted by Steve Stasko

The financially conscious racer does not own a motorhome.

Did you really say this. It's not a joke is it? A financially conscious person shouldn't go near the exhaust fumes of a race car let alone own one. BP

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by B Parker

A financially conscious person shouldn't go near the exhaust fumes of a race car let alone own one. BP

Barry, FINALLY, something we can agree on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[B Parker]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Barry, FINALLY, something we can agree on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Billy if you agree with it I must be wrong and retrack my post

[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