[mitchntx]

Just curious how many have scaled back, scaled back considerably or outright had to park your car because of the economy?

And along with that, how many have done any of the above, not based on actual events, but fear of something happening that would make curtailing your "fix" inevitable?

For me, my regional race schedule hasn't changed, but the TnT days and out of region events have been scratched. And not because of being laid off or anything, just burying my coffee cans in the backyard in case I do.

If I didn't have a great group of sponsors and wasn't able to trade instructing for registration, then the story would probably be differnet.

[Alien]

Like Mitch, I'm planning on making all of this seasons scheduled races (6 weekends). Won't be doing any lapping days or test & tune days tho. I desperately need the seat time to catch up wik the rest of the pack, but it looks like I'll have to settle for just learning on the race weekends. This is parlty due to the unknown future, and partly because last year was a big spending year. Asides being my first season W2W, I bought a house in Feb, new (to me) tow vehicle in May, and my gf bought a new(ish) Sky Redline in Nov. Don't blame me for lack of trying to spur on the economy, it was a buyers market.

My girlfriend and I work at the same (big) engineering company. Just announced that the yearly performance raises have been postponed. I feel pretty comfortable that I'm good to stay, tho if she loses her job, I'll have to park the racecar until things pick back up.