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Basically a few of us at work have been wanting to have a little fun on the track. Between us there are two suggestions... [for 2011]

We are looking to either each enter into a series (£3k budget each to make it fair - must be tarmac racing and in budget - I'm happy to stretch to £5k but some of the others aren't so keen)

OR

My idea was to set-up a work Top Gear challenge. I.e we all spend our £3k on cars an turn up, track-day, go home, rinse lather repeat - if we timed our laps we could have an inter-work competion with a crate of beer for the winner at the end of the year or whatever...

So my questions being...
1) - Is there a series we could enter for less than £3k (perhaps a little more?)? Is it a sensible option or would we be better...

2) following a lap-time leaderboard?...

3) If so, which car do I buy - you guys tend to be pretty good - and a headstart would be nice? (I don't think anyone else is a member on here :D)...

Thanks,
p0ss3s3d
 
Will you be driving them to the track so have to have tax/test?

FWD - 205 GTI - 106 GTI - 306 GTI - Rover Coupe Ex Race Car all under 3k.
RWD - E36 3 series (325,328,m3), 200sx, mr2 (not many seem to track these though?)
 
Is there any clio series?

172s can be got for £2k~ and seem to offer a lot of bhp/ton and supposidly very fun to track.
 
Berger said:
Will you be driving them to the track so have to have tax/test?

FWD - 205 GTI - 106 GTI - 306 GTI - Rover Coupe Ex Race Car all under 3k.
RWD - E36 3 series (325,328,m3), 200sx, mr2 (not many seem to track these though?)
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Certainly if it's option 2. If we are using something for a dedicated series than I'd consider tow/trailer etc.

328 sounds like a good plan - Top Gear proved cheap M3's aren't necessarily a good idea :p - 205 GTi also sounds like a good bit of fun. Speed is the key thing if we are using lap times to judge the winner - but at the end of the day it's all about the fun!

Begbie said:
Is there any clio series?

172s can be got for £2k~ and seem to offer a lot of bhp/ton and supposidly very fun to track.
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172's - nice idea. I guess there must be a clio cup of some form. Ill check that one out.
 
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Racing isn't cheap. I have a friend that tried to do a series of Ma5da racing in a MX5 but he's pulled out now because it was more expensive that he imagined, just something to bare in mind.

If you don't mind the idea of a FWD car, definitely look into 205 GTIs with a 16V engine fitted (preferably the unit from the 306 GTI6 rather than the MI16). Absolutely awesome base for a track car. I'd say that you've not going to go much faster around a with £3,000, but then again I'm slightly bias ;).

Although as far as I'm aware, there isn't a race series for them.
 
Anything cheap, lightweightish and with reasonable power would work. Like other people have said:

172
205 GTi
Golf GTI
mk1 MR2
MX5
306 rallye / gti
Almera GTI
Civic VTI
200sx
Integra SI-R?

etc etc
 
We managed to pic up an Integra Si for £1k, spend the rest on seats, rollcage, harness, brakes, exhaust, suspension and tyres. Then you can show up Imprezas on track :p
 
Just a quick note - you do realise that you're not allowed to time yourself on track days? No doubt you could attempt to sneak it, but they take a very dim view of it if you try.

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If you have an iphone... download the track your at and that will time you, give you all the speeds per corner etc, Oulton park to be here next.
 
mast3r said:
If you have an iphone... download the track your at and that will time you, give you all the speeds per corner etc, Oulton park to be here next.
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If you've got a Nokia you can do the same on Race Chrono, you can also set it to log OBD data if you have a blue tooth OBD reader giving you revs, throttle position etc. at different points on track.
 
Yeah as mentioned above, caught with any form of timing gear and you'll be told to go home by most organisers, think BaT are pretty hot on this.
 
Regarding option.1.:
Joshy said:
Racing isn't cheap.
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Worth a re-quote.
Joshy said:
Racing isn't cheap.
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Joshy said:
Racing isn't cheap.
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A number of times!

Regarding option.2.:
Timing at track-days is a big no no. Racing against the clock at track-days is most likely to result in being kicked off the circuit, at worse perma-banned from the organisers.

My suggestion - enter (or create) a karting championship.
This will satisfy racing against the clock, wheel-to-wheel racing, plenty of circuits & greater control over costs.
I've joined club100 in the past & it was absolutely first rate with some fairly handy drivers, worth a consideration perhaps?
 
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