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Originally Posted by Cloud9blue

Damn, $500 a day? Not even big GP quality tracks like Road America costs that much over here at midwest, and the smaller club tracks are much much cheaper than that. However, $5000 sounds reasonable if you can't control the urge to constantly upgrading your car. Driver upgrade is often a much better investment though.

Gotta take into account fuel, tire and brake wear, brake fluid, and in some cases the closer each trackday puts the shocks toward their rebuild date. For some cars this can easily hit five hundred a day when added to the cost of the track and maybe an instructor, even here in north Texas.

A couple of pints of brake fluid could be $70 to $100 for a flush before each track weekend. Fuel could be near a hundred bucks a day for Sunoco 260 GT for example at nine bucks a gallon and seven or so miles per gallon on-track. Brake pads at $500 for all four axles over maybe ten weekends? Another fifty bucks for gas to and from, meals, water, whatever.

Maybe $250 done on the cheap with street tires and brakes, track close by, street gas on and off the track, not enough track days to significantly impact maintenance costs, etc. Closer to $500 if not. Both assuming $150-$225 a day for track time per day.