Does /o/ hit the track?

the richmond VA track is expensive as fuck, looked into it and said NOPE

>implying local benchracers are old enough to have a driving license

>>16890088
There any drag strips around these parts?

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>>16890088
damn that's scenc

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Tracks simply aren't practical in America. The overwhelming amount of rules/regulations involved makes them prohibitively expensive to use regularly and also a major pain in the ass.

Basically, liberals destroyed any semblance of fun and freedom when it comes to tracks.

Source: done a few track days on my motorcycle and car. Literally costs $500-$800 per track day when all is said and done between fees and prep.

Fuck I hate liberals.

bitchmade

I plan on doing drag this spring/summer, once the place opens. There's a nice strip 15 minutes away from me and is a great scene to be at in general. Don't think I'm gonna track, at least not until I get some suspension work done.

>>16890108
This m8.
It's like they want us to hoon on public roads.

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>>16890108
move to the UK, you know you can get a track day at cadwell park for less than $100 right? at the cheapest they're around $75.

They were $235 for me in AU but they recently upped the price to $285, there are some tracks in AU like symmons plains in tassie that have $60 track days though.

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>>16890108
You are the exact same as the SJW's who screech racism every two seconds. Have you written or contacted anyone from your local government? Most counties are also Republican and they couldn't give a fuck about you unless you have money. Which is why rich dudes control and particpate in racing all across America.

Also good luck reversing rules and regulation when teams and highend drivers push to keep up the good safety which we undoubtedly see in the modern era of motorsports. Just apologise for being poor.

>>16890108
i dont get it, why would tracks be more impractical/expensive in a continent where there's so much space that suburbs were born and cars became a necessity

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I race $200 shitboxes in enduro's on the local roundy rounds. Confederate flags and alcohol are a fairly common theme. Good times are had by all.

RallyX costs like 60 bucks an event around here, been doing it for 2ish years now with hopes to move up to stage rally where i'll actually go broke

>>16890223
What state? I need to do a road trip this summer. Can you get me into a race?

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>>16890238
Western Jew York
Anyone can run. All you need is a FWD 4 or 6 banger. Pull the glass and lights and try and survive an hour long race.

>>16890108
>running a track cost money
>I have to pay to be apart of it
Poor people. Also where the FUCK do you get $500-$800.

>Texas world speedway
>8 hours of racing
>$200 for one person, $50 for additonal
>$125 per person
>$50 gas
>$25 each person
Then take your car, and race. You're making excuses because you either don't have a good car, or you live in a shit hole. The two big expenses in racing are the initial car, and tires. And good tires on a low powered track car will last many track days.

>>16890249
Fuck yes. I'll bring two cars so I can last 20 minutes

>get moved to base with a race track right next door
>closes for winter a week after I get there and too late for any instruction/track day
>opens back up a few days after I leave for a place that has no track within 2 hours

JUST

>>16890136
There are all kinds of reasons I would never be willing to live in the UK.

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>>16890266
Honestly that's about how long the average car last. Normally about 70-85% of the starting field doesn't finish. The local dirt track that runs an annual hangover race is even worse. I ran in the 4 and 8 banger class this year, and somehow managed to finish both. I killed my northstar though.

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track days are fun i have the money just never the time

>>16890287
I'm guessing most cars blow up before anything else. Im assuming there's no contact but it's not enforced right?

>>16890168
Consider this before you go spouting off memes: my family literally spent the last decade trying to get a track opened. Think about that. It took almost ten years to resolve liberal zoning laws and liberals complaining about noise and liberals complaining about deforestation and liberals complaining about carbon tax and whatever other nonsense these braindead morons could come up with

>>16890175
Running a track day requires tremendous resources. You literally have medical staff on stand by the entire day

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>>16890280
oh well, enjoy your $800 track days I suppose.

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>>16890314
Pretty much, rubbin's racing. Flat tires are the number one killer. Lot's of debris on the track. Plus a bunch of shitboxes that would never pass inspection and amateur drivers can equal quite the mess.

Enjoy some drunken shilling. This shitter grand am will be going on it's third enduro come june.
https://youtu.be/wl3gxdmvb-4

>>16890287
See you on the track anon
https://boston.craigslist.org/sob/cto/6023635178.html

>>16890333

Where are you getting this number? Track days for bikes in the US cost $150-$200. If you can't afford that you need to evaluate your life choices.

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>>16890339
There ya go bud.
Hell I've raced way worse than that. A 400k mile 84 Topaz for example.

>>16890351
>Where are you getting this number?

>>16890108

from this retard

>>16890256
Nigger. That's 450 bucks. Don't pretend that's worth 8 hours of racing unless you've got 911 money you're fucking kidding yourself.

>>16890355
What's the fastest car you've seen. There was a pink car in your video that seemed to be whipping around everywhere. Is there even a winner or does it just end basically when everyone runs out of gas

>>16890357

Yeah he's either retarded or poor, Probably has to make child support payments from being a dumb ass.

Racing is a different story, but in the US $200 for admission for the track day isn't bad at all. From there it's as expensive as you want it to be.

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Have a track pic, most people from /dbt/ will be familiar with this one lel.

>>16890421
This is actually very common, for some reason you hear this a lot from people who haven't been to the track yet which is that it costs too much, they pick up some insane figure (Like $1100) then you say, "what track?", look it up and it's nothing near that, it's around the usual $200-300 mark.

Sometimes you also get "They don't allow street cars on it" or "they don't have track days" which are also invariably not true as well.

>>16890370
Ends after an hour or 100 laps on that track. Plenty of quick v6 cars out there, but I've seen shitbox 4 bangers you never expect to finish win.
Of course there's other fun events as well, flagpole race, boat/trailer race, school bus figure 8, demo...
Not my vid but you get the idea, enduro I raced in last september
https://youtu.be/7kPtealoKBw

>>16890066
Unless I have the track all to myself and it costs less than 50 dollars I'd do it. I'd get bored after 20-30 minutes though. I don't think there's even a track near me

>>16890315
Your family is either stupid or poor. Not memeing either

>>16890562
laguna seca will close one day
because of liberals

>>16890550
>I'd get bored after 20-30 minutes though

lol

>>16890468
Wow that looks like a shit ton of fun. All those cute cars in that arena of chaos getting rekt. That's probably one million dollars worth of damages in that one event alone

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Pic is at Autobahn Country Club (Joliet IL)

I miss my Ralliart. But I traded up to an Evo X. Haven't had it out yet but soon.

Worst time in Ralliart: Blew a caliper at Road America. Did the bob and weave through the tires at the turn 5 exit. Nearly hit my buddy's trailer pulling back in to park in the paddock. Literally pissing brake fluid.

Luckiest escape: Overcooked entry to turn 1 at Mid-Ohio, slid over the little curb separating track from pit-out, through the grass, stopped a couple feet from the inside fence. Ruts still there two weeks later for Indycar race. No damage, got grass in my helmet.

Best time: anytime it rains. Hunting for grip, passing RWD cars like they're glued to the road.

>>16890627
Were you on OEM calipers? If so how many track days did they put up with before one blew?

>>16890627
Yeah, I'm rwd with 325s out back, I don't fuck around in rain lol.

>>16890627
this is a good post I appreciate it

>>16890653
Ran OEM calipers for 4 years tracking it all over. Ran out of rear pads at RA but didn't know it, basically grinding metal til the seal gave out. Was only my second track day (first was Sebring). RA is hell on brakes.
After that I went with EBC endurance pads, cheap plain rotors and watched em like a hawk. Ralliart brakes are same as stock Lancer, small and crappy.
Learned the importance of cool-down laps, bought a laser temp gun, kept data. Saw 600F temps at RA and Gingerman.
Bought a set of Evo Recaros, found a great deal on Hankook Ventus slicks, car felt like it was defying physics. Also felt like I could reach out and touch the ground in the carousel at TWS.
But hey I could fit all my tools and a set of tires in the hatch with the seats down. OEM calipers held up til I traded it with 98k on the odo. Rusty as fuck from all the semi-metallic pad dust but that's somebody else's problem now..

>>16890108
>blame liberals for things conservative politicians also don't change or care about

The worst meme. Nah man blame yourself for literally doing nothing about this shit. And also for believing that it's liberals vs. conservatives when it's really "the government doesn't give a fuck about you and your hobbies".

>>16890315
>liberal zoning laws

>mad/confused people aren't eager to accomodate loud ass race track by their house

>mad/confused that people give some sort of a fuck about the environment that surrounds their home

Jesus Christ you are retarded.

Can you bring your shitty sedan to a track and just go all out and have fun or is they not allowed/will you get clowned all day?

>>16891283
you will be ejected if you drive like an idiot, you're sharing the track and the group safety is paramount.

If you just mean show up in your normal sedan and cut some laps that's fine for most tracks, you might need a track license from a car club, a helmet and sometimes to install a fire extinguisher or whatever though.

>>16890066
there's an abandoned airfield with a track on it that I use for free track days and this year I'll start taking part of tuning and telemetry events to get full track days for 20 bucks.

>>16891313
UK? there's no abandoned airfields around here because we're geographically removed from most of the threat of WWII.

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got a small (literally) track day time attack coming up. One car at a time so not really full track day but still will be more intense than autoxing.

Driveway austin someone posted in a texas thread.
$100 - entry
$14 brake fluid
$60ish on gas (there, time attack, and back
$20 food


some dude setting 39 second lap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kpW0FG4-gg

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>>16890108
>Literally costs $500-$800 per track day
The Nürburgring flatrate costs 2000€/year, realy makes you think....

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>>16891324
>speed never goes above 75 mph
>constant turns

damn that'd be brilliant for small displacement bikes.

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anybody who bench races lap times/stats on this site is 100% an underageb& shitter who probably doesn't even have a license. anybody who has ever raced in their life knows that lap times are extremely variable and mean basically nothing other than a ballpark estimate of how fast the car is.

all these people autistically arguing over ~1 second lap time difference are complete retards. different people are faster in different cars, track conditions are different day to day and even minute to minute, etc., way too many variables

>>16891364
lol how in the heck is an RS250 racing against ninja 250s lol

are there multipla classes going on?

>>16891354
Makes you think the guy doesnt know what the fuck he is talking about. I can open lap all day on Fridays at my track for $120, $80 for just the morning.

>>16891364
So much this. I always say this here, but it usually leads to more autistic screeching. I'm glad at least one other person here gets it.

>>16892975
2000 for a whole year of unlimited driving isn´t bad, especialy if you consider that it one of the best tracks of the world.

>>16895130
That totally is, especially if you live close enough to go at least 5 or 6 times a year. You won't be going in the winter though.

I was referring to the guy who said a single track day costs $800.

>>16895148
Ok, I misunderstood you.
>mfw live close enough
>mfw poorfag

>>16895166
Sweet, I'm moving to Wiesbaden this summer. I plan to go there at least once, but I'll probably be more comfortable at Hockenheim. I can't afford the 2000 year pass though.

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>>16891324
>500 bucks for a basic racing training course in my personal shitbox
That's not a terrible price even if the track is minuscule. Maybe when I have some decent tires and more money.

>>16895233
Doesn't matter if the track is miniscule senpai, unless it doesn't have a straight that is at least 1500', but most have more than that because they either double as drag strips or they are used in actual racing circuits.

It isn't like you do one lap and stop. You keep going around in 20-30 sessions if you are at a novice track day HPDE, or longer if it is an open lapping day.

Plus $350-$500, usually buys you a weekend, of at least 2 morning and 2 afternoon sessions of instruction.

>>16895276
pham not senpai... fuck this

>>16895276
Yeah I realize the track being tiny doesn't have any bearing on the techniques you're learning it's just more of a bang for the buck kinda thing to me. Also after looking a little more at their website they do have additional segments of track with longer stretches for the advanced courses with the top one netting you a provisional SCCA license.

I might have to get into the Spec Miata game. I know a guy on the street over has one and I'd guess that track is where he does at least some of his racing. I'll try and talk to him the next time he's working on the car when I'm walking the dog.

>>16890562
You are retarded
Local motorcycle club has been trying for 8 years to open a motocross track
Theyve owned the land for over a decade, almost everything is in order after years of cutting through red tape, but a single resident who lives so far away they can't even hear any action keep crying to council and having the plans shot down

Literally the only option for it to open is for the bitch resident to be 'persuaded' otherwise
And he won't take money

So please stfu

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>>16891364
>anyone who bench races lap time is blah blah
Lmao faggot you are wrong

>muh webm of slowfag 250 shitters
Learn to ride a proper bike or kys Lmao

>>16895767
>Literally the only option for it to open is for the bitch resident to be 'persuaded' otherwise
You gonna break his legs anon?

>>16895786
Nah i don't care I have other places to go riding

>>16891232
>first was Sebring
Sebring has open track days?
Just at their site, didn't see anything, maybe look harder? Was it an instructional thing?
Can I take my challenger for a romp?

>>16895779
>I live my life one www.fastestlaps.com database query at a time

Kek ur a faget