If anyone wants to drive COTA, www.edgeaddicts.com is having an open track event all weekend. 5 sessions per day plus tours of the track. Price is a little steep but you get what you pay for. I'll be there coaching if anyone has questions.
If anyone wants to drive COTA, www.edgeaddicts.com is having an open track event all weekend. 5 sessions per day plus tours of the track. Price is a little steep but you get what you pay for. I'll be there coaching if anyone has questions.
I have no idea how someone justifies a grand for a weekend entry fee, even at a track like this.
I whine and complain when my all-up expenses for the weekend total a grand. Maybe I'm too cheap.
Jim Dulaney
AI 117
Yah it's pretty steep. You guys should get in with one of the driving organizations and coach. Then it's free! And you get to drive cars you usually only see on TV.
Yeah I won't complain anymore about the $6XX I paid to race there last year now... yikes.
It's a freakin' sweet track, fun layout nice place and such... but $1k screw that.
Ken Brewer; 1994 Toyota MR2 - #6 PTF
SI wannabe - anyone got a spare money tree?
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While you think the P is in disequilibrium due to the S it maybe at equilibrium and if TWS closes the P might go up.
I'll be looking for the next CPI to exclude Track Weekend fees along with anything else that shows there is inflation.
Bryan Leinart
CMC #24
If NASA ran here I would think the entry fee would be in the $600 range due to the higher number of participants which is more reasonable considering the track rental cost. These open track days don't have as many people which is why it's so expensive.
Last edited by Suck fumes; 06-26-2014 at 05:33 PM.
If you do the simple math...
4 run groups of 35 cars = 140 cars
$970 per car * 140 cars = $135,800
If NASA brought 400 cars (which would be easy to do with the appeal of COTA)
$135,800/400 = $339 per entrant
This is assuming the NASA rental would utilize all the same type of infrastructure as this event and that the operating margins of both groups are the same... Seems to be quasi-feasible...
Marshall Mosty
AI/SI Texas Regional Director
2011 NASA-TX American Iron Champ
AI #67 "Mosty Brothers' Racing" (RIP)
ST6 #21 Toyota Corolla (being revived)...
it's always more than simple math tho :-/
Ken Brewer; 1994 Toyota MR2 - #6 PTF
SI wannabe - anyone got a spare money tree?
"Zoom Zoom Zoom - On any given weekend more Mazdas make optimistic pass attempts than any other brand!"
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