Knowing what karting will cost you in advance is essential and doing proper costings is not that hard and forces you to face reality. There’s no point buying the kit if you can’t afford to run it and it can help you decide what class is best for your budget.
As a minimum listed below are the things you need to allow for and the numbers quoted have nothing to do with if you are a millionaire or not. These are cost minimums to do MSA racing:
Sat Practice - £35-£50 (depends on club)
Race fee - £35-£50 (depends on club)
Race Oil/Fuel - £5-£12 per day (depends on class)
Slick Tyres - £25-£150 (depends on class and how often you change them)
Wet Tyres - average out at say £30-£50 per meeting
Food at track for Driver and two others - £15 per day
Consumables/damage eg plugs, chain oil, carb/brake/wd40 spray, cables, bumpers, mychron leads £15-£30 per day depending on how unlucky you are and class
Transport Fuel 20p – 30p depending on whether car or van so say £20 - £30 per trip (£40-60 per weekend assuming 50 miles from track)
Engine rebuilds/Dyno work – at least £25 for average competitiveness, £50 per day if you want to be close to the front.
Totalling the above gives you a range of between £290 - £574 per two day race weekend.
In terms of classes you could say that Comer/TKM fits the lower cost range and Rotax/KF the higher cost range.
Off course you will always find someone who has bought a second hand outfit and run it for 10 dry races on the same tyres and never had a crash, changed the plug or had problems with the engine. For him karting will seem cheap as chips and if he has enjoyed it good luck to him.
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