06-30-2006, 09:20 AM
Evan Wrote:white_2kgt Wrote:Regardless of the actual impact of the price of gas on your weekend budget (although Im willing to bet its well over 1/10) it still affect peope psychologically. Its tough to put $70 worth of gas in the truck....twice...if you're towing out of state. I do know a lot of racers pared their schedules down due to this. To relate it back to the previous discussion, the "crossover" races are going to be the first to get droppedFeersty Wrote:Do rising gas prices have anything to do with attrition? I feel like it does.
ha, Gas is about 1/10 of my total budget for a race weekend, yes, even the gas for towing to the track.
For Summit it is actually less than 1/10, between tires, brakes, trans/diff/oil, entry fee's, etc. Now this depends on where I go, VIR cost me more in gas to get there so it works out to about 1/10 or so. In my budget I factor in everything that it cost for me to go out for a day, all fluid changest and wear/tear, things I know that will need replacing like seats/belts, everything.