(10-13-2017, 10:30 AM)Jake Wrote:(10-13-2017, 10:24 AM)Mike Wrote: Your affordable set of cars are not particularly simple, heavy, and not necessarily slow. It's a completely different recipe that kind of blows for this kind of thing.
How much did you guys consider "future proofing" the cars you selected for the sake of eventual race classing? I think that is a big thing that keeps the HPDE list of cars to consider very short. It does make sense to buy once, build once over time - but you can HPDE in anything.
It was certainly something to consider, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Classes change, your own interests change, cars end up in walls, etc. Luckily, most cars that "make sense" also have a good place to race because enough people have already figured that out. I'd look at what race classes exist, investigate the base vehicles you can start from for them, find folks who are able to drive their race cars to the track (is that even a thing anymore? regardless, those are generally cars that work well for collegiate HPDE), and work from there.
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4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.