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Re: Money issues no problem
Posted by 'RoadRat' on 03 Oct 2010 @ 15:34

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Sounds to me like your dad has seen sense, I know it took me a while. The bottom line is, if you want to be competitive, then anything above club level is a rich mans sport, no ifs no buts, to get money from sponsorship you need to be laying out big money yourself in the first place. To run a lad for a competitive season is virtually a full time job, I took a year out of work and if I was lucky I'd get a day and a half mid week to do other stuff, we came within a knats of winning everything worth winning that year, but what did we get for our trouble? A shed load of big cups and some free tyres along with a que of people who would be very happy for us to spend even more money with them next year.

While you probably find that hard to come to terms with now, in the long run you'll be better off, in both senses. The bottom line is, at some point virtually eveyone runs out of money at some point on the ladder, it's better to be sooner rather than later and before your dads bankrupt.

So what do you do? Talk to your dad about club racing or maybe even pro-kart. See if he will commit to a budget and then work out how to stretch that for a season.

Then get your head down at school and college and go on for a job in motorsport, get the contacts and then reap in all the money from all the poor rich fools with more money then sense. Use this money to go racing yourself at weekends as a hobby, with the security of a good full time job behind you.

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