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20 Nov 2012, 10:00 (Ref:3168966) | #1 | |
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Career in sportscar racing.
If you were starting out and wished to make a career driving sportscars where would you start?
Would you go the single seater route until you could go no further and then transfer to sportscars or would you start there right away? If you did not do single seaters what series would you suggest? Ginettas? Caterhams? Sports 2000? Where to next? Speed series? VdeV? British GT? |
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20 Nov 2012, 16:23 (Ref:3169085) | #2 | ||
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How rich are you???
Simon Dolan wanted to drive at Le Mans. He was taken on a 5 year journey by Jota, at his expense, working up in different GT categories till they raced an Aston Vantage in 2011, followed by the Zytek LMP2 this year. I believe he still wants to run an LMP1. It's not a career, but that's one path! |
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20 Nov 2012, 17:21 (Ref:3169103) | #3 | ||
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21 Nov 2012, 01:06 (Ref:3169260) | #4 | |
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Drive anything anyone will let you drive, or in which you can rent a ride.
The more experience you have with different vehicles, the more able you will be to adapt to whatever comes along. The more you learn about driving in general, the more you will bring to the table when the money talk starts. I look at U.S. IMSA Lites champ Tristan Nunez who always wanted to do sports cars but started in carts and single seaters until he got a ride with a sports car team. After winning 10 of 12 races in a prototype, he went to England and won the Walter Hayes trophy ahead of 120 Formula Ford racers. He has said his greatest strength is his ability to adapt--new cars, new conditions, he has driven enough different things that he can figure out what will work and what won't and go fast in whatever. Plus the more hours behind the wheel and in competition, the better. Of course, I am challenged even driving to the store in my aging Honda, so taking my opinion on driving might not be wise. |
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22 Nov 2012, 15:20 (Ref:3169864) | #6 | ||
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there was a series of programmes taking budding gt racers and outting them through a series of challenges before the winner got a seat in a nissan gt, if you have the talent you could try that route, but almost all other routes will require cash and funding from somewear, cheapest routes will be with ginetta's
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22 Nov 2012, 17:44 (Ref:3169922) | #7 | ||
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how do you build a career in sportscar racing if you're not a driver?
I'm thinking the support categories, for a team or organizing organizations, etc. |
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