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Re: Whoa Stop!
Posted by 'iant' on 18 Dec 2008 @ 11:32

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Steve

To try to put quantify some things in order to answer your question; there are certain costs involved in a race season namely :-

1) Race/practice entry fees - (Ł600)
2) Cost of travel to races (ie diesel etc) - (Ł500)
3) Tyres - (Ł600)
4) Engine maintainance (ie rebuilds etc) - (Ł400)
5) Chassis maintainance (ie spares etc) - (Ł200)
6) Race fuel/oil - (Ł100)

Now, lets consider (hypothetically) that the figures in brackets are what was spent last year (ie a total of Ł2400) and only Ł1500 could be afforded this year.

There are several ways to get to Ł1500.

A)Do less races - all the above are reduced but, if the championship is still say 9 out of 11 races you have to ask yourself whether the championship is what you’re interested in. Here the cost saving proposal would be to ask the club to reduce the number of scored rounds to 7 out of 11 for example.
B)Save money on tyres - here the tyres could be cheaper or they could be made to last longer. If they were made to last longer the club would have to introduce a system to make sure every competitor did this otherwise you would be uncompetitive. (I’m not sure introducing another tyre for the class is practical for the reasons you give in earlier threads).
C)Spend less on engines - the only way to do this is to reduce revs so a narrow range of fixed sprockets could be introduced (say 3 sizes).
D)Spend less on chassis - this is proportional to either the amount of racing (see A) or the amount of damage which can’t be planned.

What else is there left to make cost savings against ?

Over to you.

IanT

Message Thread:

How much less will you need to spend? by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 11:40)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:12)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'itpro' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:30)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'MattScott' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:50)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:54)

Tyre contracts by 'SimonG' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:50)

Re: Tyre contracts by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:53)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'oldun' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:53)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 14:03)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'MarkW' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:07)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'QuickOldTimer' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:15)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'bigp' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:46)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:52)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 17:08)

AlanRR by 'itpro' (17 Dec 2008 @ 17:45)

Alternate TKM by 'SimonG' (18 Dec 2008 @ 15:07)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'NJB' (17 Dec 2008 @ 18:01)

Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 19:04)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'Zoesdad' (18 Dec 2008 @ 17:16)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'alanrr' (19 Dec 2008 @ 14:59)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'QuickOldTimer' (19 Dec 2008 @ 17:18)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'alanrr' (19 Dec 2008 @ 18:41)

How's that impossible? by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 19:08)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'stevewhite' (17 Dec 2008 @ 20:41)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'Trainspotter' (17 Dec 2008 @ 20:57)

People who can't afford to rtace just stop ! by 'DavyBoy' (17 Dec 2008 @ 21:27)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 23:19)

Whoa Stop! by 'SteveC' (18 Dec 2008 @ 8:45)

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'alanrr' (18 Dec 2008 @ 9:53)

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'iant' << You are here!

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'QuickOldTimer' (18 Dec 2008 @ 11:41)

How do people train to race? by 'SteveC' (19 Dec 2008 @ 9:07)

Great answer Ian thanks! by 'SteveC' (19 Dec 2008 @ 9:05)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'SimonS' (18 Dec 2008 @ 10:02)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'Chris34' (18 Dec 2008 @ 10:41)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'chriskasch' (18 Dec 2008 @ 12:06)

possible.... by 'Tmoon' (18 Dec 2008 @ 12:52)

Re: possible.... by 'KevinW' (18 Dec 2008 @ 13:33)

Re: possible.... by 'WillDendy87' (19 Dec 2008 @ 13:58)

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