Racing - Your addiction?

[whiteballz]

A thread full of semi philosophical questions for those that race your cars/bikes.

What about it do you love?

What about it do you hate?

Feel free to write up your experiences racing and anything related.

Tips and helpful hints to those less experienced are welcome too.

[clutch-monkey]

What about it do you love?

driving! fast.
knowing what your car does when pushed (has paid for itself imo)

What about it do you hate?

crashing! and fear of crashing. not spinning, that's okay.
cost. tires etc.
at open sprints when there are lots of people there.
racing in an event that hasn't been held in 70 years, on a track you've never been on, in front of a thousand people

[whiteballz]

Racing in an event that hasn't been held in 70 years, on a track you've never been on, in front of a thousand people

Oh, you mean this one?

[clutch-monkey]

no...that's the other white SC..honest

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Racing is fantastic because it's noisy, dirty, tiring, crowded, overpriced, smelly, wasteful, hard to get to, dangerous and pointless in the long run.

But the cars....they like...shoot flames and stuff.

[clutch-monkey]

Racing is fantastic because it's noisy, dirty, tiring, crowded, overpriced, smelly, wasteful, hard to get to, dangerous and pointless in the long run.

this sounds like your last girlfriend

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Shh....she reads this....

EDIT: Crowded?

[whiteballz]

burnt.

The reason I started this thread is that my father and I are looking to buy a track car, something quick that we can buy, leave relatively stock for now (IE nice tires and better pads and fluids etc) while having fun on open days @ eastern creek, Wakefield and hill climbs etc.

I'm going to Ichiban imports tomorrow to look at a 1998 Subaru WRX 2 door Type R (special model) which has 202Kw and 381Nm with a weight (full interior) of 1210kg's.

This fills our needs as its quick, stable, has a lot of support in this country if something goes wrong, and we both love subaru's.

[LeonOfTheDead]

I say do it.
It's something I always wondered about, minus being able to do it.
Keeping it "stock" for a while seems a sensible idea, easy on the money and let you slowly understand how the thing works.
How much would this cost? The car I mean.

[whiteballz]

$8,990 aud/$7,223 usd/$5,108 euro

Its got a few goodies, cat back exhaust, K&N intake, Cusco Anti-roll Bar, and boost gauge.

[2ndclasscitizen]

$9k? Do it you stupid lesbian.

As for doing trackdays, it's simple: No dozy cagers, no ****ing HWP, good road surface.

[whiteballz]

Yeah, Basically It looks like a good deal. We want to find out 100% before we buy what events were eligible for without needing a cage etc. Basically from what i know that leaves us with run-what-you-brung style things, open days and some hill-climbs, wed night drags at Eastern Creek/Wakefield.

[johnnynumfiv]

A thread full of semi philosophical questions for those that race your cars/bikes.

What about it do you love?

What about it do you hate?

Feel free to write up your experiences racing and anything related.

Tips and helpful hints to those less experienced are welcome too.

I love that I can make money while having fun working on them. I work for a racing company now. We maintain and transport the cars to races, and provide services at the track.
With my own car, I love the sound, the shifts, smells, g-forces, working on it and improving it..

I hate when things go really wrong and it ends your racing day.

[cmcpokey]

driving! fast.
knowing what your car does when pushed (has paid for itself imo)

crashing! and fear of crashing. not spinning, that's okay.
cost. tires etc.
at open sprints when there are lots of people there.
racing in an event that hasn't been held in 70 years, on a track you've never been on, in front of a thousand people

I love that I can make money while having fun working on them. I work for a racing company now. We maintain and transport the cars to races, and provide services at the track.
With my own car, I love the sound, the shifts, smells, g-forces, working on it and improving it..

I hate when things go really wrong and it ends your racing day.

these men, they speak the truth.

it is an amazing feeling to feel every pebble under your tires as you are screaming through a turn at 90 mph, and adjusting millimeters of your line with tiny inputs of the gas pedal. when it all goes right, there is no better feeling.

but when you are limping back to the pits, waving everyone by, there is no more humiliating feeling. and then comes the cost to fix whatever caused you to limp back in to the pits in the first place.

[henk4]

I have no personal experience at all with any kind of serious motor/bike racing. Never had the means to get involved in that. I hope for this thread bicycle riding/racing also counts, and why I am doing it is because of the speed, the human effort and the resulting physical fitness when you don't exaggerate. Climbing a mountain for an hour tests your stamina, going down the same mountain is like an orgasm, but then one that lasts for ten minutes...