[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]

Bent spindle arm, upper, and lower a arms on passenger side. No body damage and no frame damage. Also destroyed one wheel. The shop I use knows me pretty well, so they helped out on the estimate (quoted full retail on everything, when they knew I could find it for a lot less). I ended up going ahead and getting GW upper a arms and 1LE lower a arms to replace the stock pieces. The adjuster did ask the shop manager what happened to the car, but he of course replied "I have no clue, I just fix em." (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

As to the chunk of concrete, if I'd actually hit it dead on with the wheel, it probably could have done similar damage. It was a little less than a foot across, and I was doing about 60MPH. I was following a truck, and of course they cleared it and I didn't. Fortunately, all it did was impact under the car and put a nice gouge in the floorboard. I caught a piece about half that size several years ago in my 92 Vette on the edge of a wheel and it bent the wheel and knocked the alignment out pretty good.