Not Denying practice helps, but this was a post about wanting to go racing with no budget, just like when I started. If you go for a practice day or trackday outside a race weekend, quite often it will envolve a day off work, upto £40 to get to the track and back, £30 in fuel for the bike, around £90 or more for the track time, plus food, tyre wear, brake pad and chain wear, oil and filter useage and not forgetting with a Duke Cambelt wear. In a race year with say 12 race days spread over 8 meetings as with North Glos you're going to need to budget at least £1000 for tyres, £300 for Belts, oil and filters, £1200 for entries, £250 for fuel to get there, £200 for fuel for the bike, around another £300 for food and drink. Thats over £3000 with out any crashing. On top of that last year it cost me another £600 in lost income from having to take time off from shifts. Alot of club racers don't need to spend another £1000 or so going to practice on tracks that they are going to race on through the year. Some of the best value race meetings of the year are those held at Pembrey by North Glos, £65 for a entry that gets you 2 races and your morning practice and for the Novices that book early they get the free Novice race, you can pay a extra £25 for 2 more races, which also gets you a 2nd practice session. you can then do this on the following day as all NG meetings at Pembrey are 2 dayers and if you have the money you can also book the Friday practice, either the whole day or just the afternoon. |