I have been wanting to get into road racing and i was wondering what it takes to come out and take part in the events ? does your car have to meet certain standers like roll cage thangs like that and do you have to have some sort of special licence to take part in the races

 

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Someone is going to whine again that I'm being a buzz-kill but spend the next 6 or so years focusing on your education and THEN start racing - assuming that you are talking about driving. Unless your family has a big pot of money that it wants to dedicate to the game.

It IS useful to volunteer as a worker and spend some time helping teams at the track. That education pays off when you do take the plunge. I'm always amazed at the number of drivers we see at licensing schools who are attending their very first road race. They typically spend a lot of time trying to figure out what they are doing OFF the track...

K

 

Do yourself a favor and do exactly as Kirk has advised.

I myself am 20 years old, and if you read the thread that I just started yesterday in the RR/AX forum, you will see the thought process that I am now going through as far as tracking my car is concerned.

My DC2 is my only car (parents helped my buy it), and so I cannot afford to ball the thing up at the track or I will be without a car until I graduate from college and can finance one on my own salary.

I also will not feel safe on a road course ever unless I have FULL rollover protection (ie: 8 point weld-in cage). Simply doing lapping days, let alone racing is the single most expensive hobby you can try to pursue at any age.

I myself am going to return my DC2 back to a "nice street car", and if the go-fast bug still has me by the ***** when I'm out of school and making money I will buy a CRX which would get stripped down and caged to hell and back.

Fortunately, I didn't get too far into the game (spending money on race parts), and can sell my Sparco's and possibly rollbar and get out of the game for now. So please think things through before you go and start spending all your money.

I am going to try and keep autocrossing as time/money allows, and think that would be a great place for you to start as well at the young age of 16. You spin out at an auto-x and it's at under 30mph usually. You spin out at a road course and you're going over 100mph at times. Happened to me last weekend, and opened my eyes to what can happen.

Good Luck youngin'

Jon

 

tmh,

Is there a track near you where you can watch some club racing? If you can get to a race weekend you will find many people who are willing to answer some polite questions when they aren't busy. If you join the SCCA you will get a subscription to SPORTSCAR which has a lot of info as well as a list of races and other events. You can check out SCCA and NASA on-line for car classing and such, but I would agree with most others on the list, and say, learn before you leap.

Good luck,

Victor Penner

 

Hey,

Ok I am sixteen and might be able to help Ok first I would say race karts, if you have still do it. I am lucky, someone gave me my car (1989 Honda Civic) and a lot of other items like seat, fuel cell, etc. Plus loads of support by other people around here! I started wanting to race SCCA road racing when I was 14 so looked at all the classes, basically from GT classes, production, F500, FV, and Improved Touring, where I have stayed. To start, I would say pick a class, every road race class requires a roll cage, harness, etc. After you pick a class, have your car ready and get to work, do all of your work on your own except major motor work, you will learn every bolt on your car and save money. I just put in a 6 point roll cage in my front driveway, the cages are expensive but you can install them, weld in will be a different story, my cage is bolt in. I found starting at a early age building a car is easy because I have had a while to save and buy parts, I started by taking the interior out, then suspension, engine work, seat, exhaust, etc. Now with all this, you need to remember the cost of how much it will be for a race weekend, and keeping the car legal and running. I would also reccomend autocross before road racing, go to races, meet people, help out for a team in the pits, and really study everything to be sure this is what you want to do, the class you want to race in, etc. Now everyone else tell him why he should not build a race car but buy a used race car to start out in....