after a conversation with co-conspirator Mr. Jimby at the weekend it appears that he’s been busy with the spreadsheets again…

after racing over the weekend was almost washed out (again!) he got to thinking just how many runs people actually get on the quarter mile at a race meet. apparently most people only got one qualifying run on saturday due to the inclement weather…

so he sat down and went through the records and looked up how many actual qualifying runs people have got running in VWDRC this season. He added to this the point that half the field gets knocked out having only done one run in the first round. then use this number and the standard race entry fee, currently ?85 per round, to give you the cost per run over the course of the season. This obviously goes up and down depending on whether you actually run all the available qualifying runs, don’t have any breakages or if you win several rounds.

anyhow, the basic figure he worked out was ?33.50 per run!…

yes, that’s right. although the racers in the pits laugh at the people paying ?15 to do run what ya brung at race meets when there’s open track, even if they only do ONE run they are paying less than half and if they do four or five runs for their fee then it starts looking even sillier….
of course there are differences, for racing the track is prepped, there’s all the work of the marshals, the support staff, the start line crew, the safety crew etc but it makes you think doesn’t it,

basically its about ?150 per minute, or ?134 per mile…

so i sent jimby a text saying,
“ok, so what about the complete costs from mile/minute for a season, fuel, race fees, race car, license, safety gear, food etc ?”

you really don’t want to know the answer that came back…