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Track car vs. Daily Driver
- Thread starter Panman
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apmitchell74
Ready to race!
- Location
- Sydney Australia
- Car(s)
- R36 Twin Turbo Golf
That's why i have my turbo lotus as my track car and the golf as the daily driver..
Something like this would be good, I think it may still be for sale but not sure. I know the guy and have been around QR as a passenger for a few laps.. so much fun. Fairly good lap times too.
http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67246611
Schnitzel Baby
Bright shirt, dull mind
- Location
- Canberra
- Car(s)
- Golf MK5 GTi
A dedicated track car would be good but you've got to have somewhere to store it for the 360 days of the year it's not being used.
A couple of other cars worth considering are Integra Type Rs and older WRXs.
Still, there's something about a competitive daily driver that appeals to me. Robby's S3 is a good example (and mine of course:smile
A couple of other cars worth considering are Integra Type Rs and older WRXs.
Still, there's something about a competitive daily driver that appeals to me. Robby's S3 is a good example (and mine of course:smile
eurocars
5/17/15 - Never forget
- Location
- Indianapolis
- Car(s)
- 2006 GTI
mx-5. reason being that there is a following like any other and the aftermarket for the car is enormous. i have always wanted a track-dedicated mx-5 so i may be a little biased, but i dont think you could go wrong with one
TimT
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- East Bentleigh
Its always funny to see an MX5 do sub 2 minutes at Phillip Island. Puts many poorer drivers in much faster cars in their place very quickly!
NGT10V
going, going, GONE
- Location
- Canberra, Australia
Just do it Keith. All the cool kids are.
Just a different point of view...
I remember vividly having a long conversation with a guy at Phillip Island one day about his dedicated track car vs just rocking up to the track like I did. He said the worst thing he ever did was to buy a dedicated track car as he said it became a job not a hobby. when he tracked his daily car, he'd do a quick check-up drive it to the track, go hard then go home.
When he bought a dedicated car, he said the whole game changed. He said he's always be modding it, so it needed a trailer, then it had to be prepared as he was always breaking down and needing repairs because he bought an old car (cost consideration) and heavily modded it for track.
Basically, he said he was addicted but it wasn't fun like it used to be when he just got into his car, drove to the track and had a blast for the day. It became too serious. He advised me unless I was going to get into racing, to just keep it simple and cheap and to only track my daily cars.
I took his advice and never spent too much on my cars and always bought cars in warranty that I could on-sell after a year or two.
I recently just bought a really low km manual e46 M3 with warranty from a BMW dealership purely for weekend driving and trackdays (my gf will drive it during the week as I don't want to rack up high k's on it and she works close to where we live)
For me this is perfect and I can be happy knowing that any problems associated with hard driving/track will be covered by BMW and not my savings.
my 2c
I remember vividly having a long conversation with a guy at Phillip Island one day about his dedicated track car vs just rocking up to the track like I did. He said the worst thing he ever did was to buy a dedicated track car as he said it became a job not a hobby. when he tracked his daily car, he'd do a quick check-up drive it to the track, go hard then go home.
When he bought a dedicated car, he said the whole game changed. He said he's always be modding it, so it needed a trailer, then it had to be prepared as he was always breaking down and needing repairs because he bought an old car (cost consideration) and heavily modded it for track.
Basically, he said he was addicted but it wasn't fun like it used to be when he just got into his car, drove to the track and had a blast for the day. It became too serious. He advised me unless I was going to get into racing, to just keep it simple and cheap and to only track my daily cars.
I took his advice and never spent too much on my cars and always bought cars in warranty that I could on-sell after a year or two.
I recently just bought a really low km manual e46 M3 with warranty from a BMW dealership purely for weekend driving and trackdays (my gf will drive it during the week as I don't want to rack up high k's on it and she works close to where we live)
For me this is perfect and I can be happy knowing that any problems associated with hard driving/track will be covered by BMW and not my savings.
my 2c
apmitchell74
Ready to race!
- Location
- Sydney Australia
- Car(s)
- R36 Twin Turbo Golf
Not bad, but do you notice the blue exige that left him behind, thats Tim Mackie and that SC Honda beats all the GT3 Porches etc...:thumbsup:
The orange Exige is only running a 200HP Rover Kseries engine:yikes:
It's owned by the guy that owns CUE clothing brand for woman... It is now red and has a SC Honda in it and will also leave the MX5 for dead..:lol:
If you are going to spend enough to by a turbo MX5 you sould look at a S1
Lotus Elise, far better as a track..:thumbsup:
depends which class you wanna compete in?
btw if you are going for a early MX5, get the 1.8 (NA8)! Will save you alot of $ in the future