[Rob Hood]

What do you guys/gals spend for your annual racing budget? I'm interested in knowing what it costs to race per event. Things like entry fees, fuel, tires, lodging, food, etc. I'm trying to plan a budget to present to the Finance Committee (wife) so she has an idea what we need to spend. I am not including any expenses relating to initial vehicle purchase or preparation.

I am using a value of 10 races in a season, some local, some not. I do realize that I may end up in a region that could have more or less races, so I just decided to use 10 as a nice even number.

[LT4Firehawk]

I guess I'm really lucky. Our local track only charges $75/day for open track days (with a $35 annual license fee). Since I run 555R IIs for street and track use, I only count about half the cost as part of my "racing" budget. Add on to that a set of race pads once a year and plenty of brake fluid and that's most of my set budget. Of course, then you have the unexpected things, like the suspension damage from my last track day. Granted the insurance paid on that, but there was still the deductible and the fact that I ended up buying better (more expensive) replacement parts instead of going stock. I usually don't count mods to the car though, as I'd normally do those whether I open tracked it or not.