I'd just like to make a point. "Going National" is no more expensive than competeing in Clubbies... The entry fee for Fri, Sat, Sun is the same as a combined Sat practice fee and Sunday race entry fee at most clubs. You still need a new set of tyres to be on the pace... the only additional cost is the controlled fuel.
I've raced in TKM on and off for around 10 years and I scrape by, believe me. But that is whats fantastic about the class at the moment. I can scrape by and still be relatively on the pace certainly within top 5. Lubo78- "if a load of racers having fun on a budget bothers you go blow your tenners elsewhere" I've done 2 meetings this year because I can't afford to do any more at them moment. But those 2 meetings I thouroughly enjoyed and was within a tenth or so of the front-runners, proving you don't HAVE to spend a lot to be up there. My point is, Whether you're just doing clubbies or racing week in week out, you always want to know you stand a chance of winning. Surely you're not out there giving up your weekend just to make up the numbers, and if you are, you're in the wrong sport and have demonstrated my point exactly.... The relaxed laws COULD attract the wrong people to the class, which will ruin the racing.
tkm140 meeny- "which means we dont all pile in to the first corner like we are racing for a row of houses, if that was the case you should race at s1 level ,bring on the club level racers !!!!" Having raced in S1 and at club level its the club level drivers that are unpredictable and cause the accidents, it very rarely happens at S1. Ok its aggressive, close racing on the limit, but everyone there knows whats a fair move and 99% of accidents at that level are honest mistakes... The guys that are just there to "meet and greet new people" are the guys who cause the problems and make the class look like a less attractive proposition because it doesn't seem as serious. That's a bad stigma to attatch to the class and demonstrates my points exactly. I know there's a lot of people out there who will agree with that, and they're the guys who have been in the class long enough to have seen the it flourish with serious racers 10 or so years ago and be a great class. The whole point I was trying to make all along is that the class has died since then because of more 'proffessional' looking classes full of people who want to win not just make up the numbers. And those people enjoy their weekends just as much as those who are just ar*ing around... Not everyone at the front is spending a fortune.... and TKM is the only class where that can happen.
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