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Re: Whoa Stop!
Posted by 'iant' on 18 Dec 2008 @ 11:32

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Steve

To try to put quantify some things in order to answer your question; there are certain costs involved in a race season namely :-

1) Race/practice entry fees - (�600)
2) Cost of travel to races (ie diesel etc) - (�500)
3) Tyres - (�600)
4) Engine maintainance (ie rebuilds etc) - (�400)
5) Chassis maintainance (ie spares etc) - (�200)
6) Race fuel/oil - (�100)

Now, lets consider (hypothetically) that the figures in brackets are what was spent last year (ie a total of �2400) and only �1500 could be afforded this year.

There are several ways to get to �1500.

A)Do less races - all the above are reduced but, if the championship is still say 9 out of 11 races you have to ask yourself whether the championship is what you�re interested in. Here the cost saving proposal would be to ask the club to reduce the number of scored rounds to 7 out of 11 for example.
B)Save money on tyres - here the tyres could be cheaper or they could be made to last longer. If they were made to last longer the club would have to introduce a system to make sure every competitor did this otherwise you would be uncompetitive. (I�m not sure introducing another tyre for the class is practical for the reasons you give in earlier threads).
C)Spend less on engines - the only way to do this is to reduce revs so a narrow range of fixed sprockets could be introduced (say 3 sizes).
D)Spend less on chassis - this is proportional to either the amount of racing (see A) or the amount of damage which can�t be planned.

What else is there left to make cost savings against ?

Over to you.

IanT

Message Thread:

How much less will you need to spend? by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 11:40)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:12)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'itpro' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:30)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'MattScott' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:50)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:54)

Tyre contracts by 'SimonG' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:50)

Re: Tyre contracts by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:53)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'oldun' (17 Dec 2008 @ 12:53)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 14:03)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'MarkW' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:07)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'QuickOldTimer' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:15)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'bigp' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:46)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'chriskasch' (17 Dec 2008 @ 15:52)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 17:08)

AlanRR by 'itpro' (17 Dec 2008 @ 17:45)

Alternate TKM by 'SimonG' (18 Dec 2008 @ 15:07)

Re: How much less will you need to spend? by 'NJB' (17 Dec 2008 @ 18:01)

Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 19:04)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'Zoesdad' (18 Dec 2008 @ 17:16)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'alanrr' (19 Dec 2008 @ 14:59)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'QuickOldTimer' (19 Dec 2008 @ 17:18)

Re: Yes, but you'd have to obtain an N1.3..... by 'alanrr' (19 Dec 2008 @ 18:41)

How's that impossible? by 'SteveC' (17 Dec 2008 @ 19:08)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'stevewhite' (17 Dec 2008 @ 20:41)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'Trainspotter' (17 Dec 2008 @ 20:57)

People who can't afford to rtace just stop ! by 'DavyBoy' (17 Dec 2008 @ 21:27)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'alanrr' (17 Dec 2008 @ 23:19)

Whoa Stop! by 'SteveC' (18 Dec 2008 @ 8:45)

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'alanrr' (18 Dec 2008 @ 9:53)

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'iant' << You are here!

Re: Whoa Stop! by 'QuickOldTimer' (18 Dec 2008 @ 11:41)

How do people train to race? by 'SteveC' (19 Dec 2008 @ 9:07)

Great answer Ian thanks! by 'SteveC' (19 Dec 2008 @ 9:05)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'SimonS' (18 Dec 2008 @ 10:02)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'Chris34' (18 Dec 2008 @ 10:41)

Re: How's that impossible? by 'chriskasch' (18 Dec 2008 @ 12:06)

possible.... by 'Tmoon' (18 Dec 2008 @ 12:52)

Re: possible.... by 'KevinW' (18 Dec 2008 @ 13:33)

Re: possible.... by 'WillDendy87' (19 Dec 2008 @ 13:58)

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