@DannyP posted:you can do a season(7-10 weekends) of FV for about 10-15k. That includes gas to and from, entry fees, tires, maintenance, hotel, and food. Add the price of a car to get started, along with helmet, 3-layer suit, shoes, gloves, socks, arm restraints, HANS device and a fire system for your car. It ain't cheap, but compared to anything else, it is.
Is that compared to anything else, or any other form of open wheel racing?
Because if we're talking about ANYTHING anything, I can spend a month in Italy looking at art, eating delicious food in 16th century courtyards, and drinking gallons of prosecco for about $15K. At least I could before "The Recent Troubles" pretty much shut down international travel (I must be protected from the Delticron 4.0 Teenage Mutant Ninja Variant).
I could spend the month of February in Florida (like the governors of the hardcore lock-down states did), regardless of the current status of "The Recent Troubles".
I could go to Brevard and drive like a Hooligan for a week 3 different times. Alternatively, I could go to Brevard and drive like a Hooligan one time - get arrested and thrown in the clink, hire a decent lawyer, skip bail, and fight extradition. I could do this every single year.
I could buy three different 5-speed transaxles every year (which would continue the pattern), assuming I could find the parts (which I can't) or find somebody interested in building (which I also can't).
I could build and blow up a twin-plug time-bomb every year (assuming I could get the machine work done in 12 months, which I couldn't).
I could go to Hawk's Grove Inn in Manito, IL and buy all-you-can-eat wings and walleye for 24 people every Thursday night into eternity.
I could buy about 15 sheets of 3/4 OSB, recently revalued by "7% inflation".
Or I could just keep buying food and gas, paying the taxes, living out my construction fanboy fantasies, and continue slogging away.
That's what I'll probably do
... that, or go to Brevard and get arrested.