Budget

Alex Hodgkinson · 27 Nov 2004, 23:24 (Ref:1165900)

Im just wondering if any of you guys could tell me some rough figures it will cost to run a kart at national level for one season.

Preferably someone who's actually been there & done it..

I'm looking at a six round championship,

Just wondering how much did you end up spending on it roughly?

speedy king · 28 Nov 2004, 12:23 (Ref:1166152)

What class will you be racing?

Alex Hodgkinson · 28 Nov 2004, 13:29 (Ref:1166185)

Super ICC in Stars Of Tomorrow.

I suppose I could work it out myself, but I'm lazy and I'm just wondering how much other people have spent lol!

Alex Hodgkinson · 28 Nov 2004, 13:37 (Ref:1166190)

entrance = £800
engine maintainance/rebuilds per year = £400
seperate test days = £150 + fuel + travel

tyres per meeting = £150
fuel per meeting = £??
cost to travel to meetings = £??
accomodation = £80 (for two)
food = £40 (for two)

x by 6 meetings per year = £??

Any ideas on the "??'s" ?

speedy king · 22 Dec 2004, 22:55 (Ref:1186339)

I think i read somewhere that depending on how much practice you do within the meeting fuel is normally between about £40-£60 a weekend, i can't remember though so i could be way out. Someone may be able to shed a little light on that though.

Someone i was speaking to at the end of last season is considering Super One next year and has worked out it would cost them about £7,000 for the full season.

BillyT · 23 Dec 2004, 17:55 (Ref:1186912)

Someone i know races in Italy and abit in the UK and is from/lives in the uk. Worked out that they spent 30,000 this is including flights and accomadation aswell as the racing.

speedy king · 23 Dec 2004, 20:38 (Ref:1187028)

Racing is a lot cheaper abroad apparently. Some people actaully live in the Uk but only race abroad in places like France etc.

Alex Hodgkinson · 26 Dec 2004, 14:42 (Ref:1188052)

I reckon that 7k will stand at about the value I'll spend in a year of national 125 racing.

Dave Litchfield (the father of Mark, the FA guy) used to say that he spent around £25,000 a year on his karting, + I think someone at strawberry mentioned something about 70k, but I can't remember how many karts they were talking about because surely it'll cost more than that to run a team.

speedy king · 27 Dec 2004, 14:27 (Ref:1188427)

7k i would expect should do it personally. There are at least two Super One racers on this forum and an international racer so if they see this they may be able to help

Tom Horley · 5 Jan 2005, 15:23 (Ref:1193663)

Quote:

Racing is a lot cheaper abroad apparently. Some people actaully live in the Uk but only race abroad in places like France etc.

Its not cheaper just a hell of alot better. The meetings are run properly, no stupid high horse officials, proper tyres etc.

Alex Hodgkinson · 5 Jan 2005, 15:48 (Ref:1193671)

That's one thing thats ****ing me off - tyres. Those bloody ****e things i've got to run in the 125 classes..

crozier74 · 5 Jan 2005, 19:10 (Ref:1193871)

Hi guys

I ran S1 in Jnr TKM this year. We spent £10k in total, which included 4 S1 races, the other 16 were clubbies. However, bear in mind that a large amount of our costs are travel-related. For example, Buckmore S1 cost us £1k, and that was a 1066 mile (20h 30m) round trip in total. On a more reasonable level, Larkhall S1 was our most local round (first time you English boys have ever heard that sentence huh?

) and that was £400. Overall, I'd say yeah, £7k is pretty realistic.

I wouldn't say it's really necessary to run with a team, unless you've definitely got the cash for it, but if you can, make sure you do the previous club meeting at each track to learn the track and get a feel for how you're doing relative to the other Stars guys. We spent the first day of each S1 weekend getting used to the track and setup, while the other guys were straight into action, and it put us at a disadvantage.

I'm looking at SICC for a few races this year, hopefully if Stars are running the "club wildcard" scheme I'll be able to race at Larkhall against you

Best of luck Alex

Naaaaa · 6 Jan 2005, 22:31 (Ref:1194813)

you will need to be looking at £10,000 for the year including tyres hotels fuel (kart & van) rebuilds etc and if you do not get much damage then you might get some change but not a lot.
to run with a top team you will be looking at £30,000 for the S1 o plate and masters

toot toot · 11 Jan 2005, 10:45 (Ref:1197967)

£10,000 all in. Thats assuming you already have a competitive chassis and engine.

bart_jacobs · 13 Jan 2005, 22:57 (Ref:1200331)

I would recommand driving for a team... First of all, you have an optional mechanic, but more important is that a team has got all the possible spare parts you might need... and if something should go terribly wrong just before a race, than there is always the whole team to do an extra effort to get your kart ready... and believe me, if something goes wrong, it's always just before you need it to work

In Belgium driving for a team costs another 125 Euro/event, but you got a tent, transportation,and mechanic (I'm talking about GKS, they had Jenson Button, Jan Heylen, Ambrosio and many other top drivers in their team)

#15 tkm 4/ · 16 Jan 2005, 10:30 (Ref:1202087)

well we were in TKM 4stroke super 1 we spent just over 6k and came away with the number 3 plate, also included was TKM festival prices. So 10k seems a good for a ICC class

Andrew Hornsey · 24 Jan 2005, 11:13 (Ref:1208474)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom Horley

Its not cheaper just a hell of alot better. The meetings are run properly, no stupid high horse officials, proper tyres etc.

Tom,

What do you mean -no stupid, high horse, officials?

Are these the officials that give up their time for free?

What makes you think the officials are so bad in the UK?

Andrew

mf1982 · 25 Jan 2005, 19:39 (Ref:1209786)

whats wrong with the icc tyres?

Alex Hodgkinson · 26 Jan 2005, 14:23 (Ref:1210359)

Too hard.

ukkartace · 21 Feb 2005, 19:24 (Ref:1231685)

tom's right about the officials though i think, in the uk here they are just too inconsistent incomparison to overseas officials.

crgmichael · 25 Feb 2006, 15:23 (Ref:1531357)

go to ebay.ie and search for the kart store arai sk 5 is 380e and the gp somethin is 480e thats where i got mine search for wildkart front sliding hubs usually finds the shop

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