Sye, in my opinion......
A few trackdays under your belt is very useful before hitting the grid. You'll benefit greatly from knowing how both you and your race bike goes round a race track, but you've got some track experience so just get yourself a DD bike together and take it for a couple of winter tests to get used to it and set it up. I'd done 6 track days before joining up, and then 1 on the monster to familiarise myself with the bike and work out what needed doing to it.
As for cost, like said, it doesn't have to cost much at all. I've done 2 seasons (missing just one round) and the total cost stands at £6514.65 - that was starting from scratch, including all the paddock gear, leathers, admin, fuel, food, travel, spares, crash damage, etc... and even includes a few track days for learning new tracks before the races. I did get some good sponsorship for the bike and tyres tho.
So you don't need to spend a kings ransome and build a bike that would envy the Ducati Corse factory to be at the sharp end of it - my bike was little more than just very well maintained (thanks to PeteB) and it got me 5th in the 2005 standing, 7th in 2006 and a couple of trophies to polish.
Go for it, you know it makes sense!
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