This is all pretty bad news for me, as a seasonal construction worker I simply do not have the money for fees like this. I thought the ECTA fees were sky-high at $200-$250 a crack, but I guess they are the cheap ones.
I have participated in drag racing in the past with both cars and motorcycles and I thought LSR would be fun to try, but looking at this I wonder if I would ever be able to afford it.
I can go drag racing at a local 1/4 mile strip for $45, and they pay out prizes each week to various competitors up to $800! LSR racing for some reason costs 5-10 times as much and pays out zero. The same drag strip has dial-in runs and grudge nights where they will let you run and time your vehicle for $5-$15.
You can go vintage roadracing at a fee of $95 for each event, and road-racing is as expensive to run and dangerous a thing you can do on wheels.
NO, I am not interested in racing for the money, but I am not interested in giving money away without good reason. A lot of land speed records have been made at speeds I have seen done on the street or quarter mile, so unless I can do something that can not be done or tested there then there is not much sense in paying extra to do it.
I see the ECTA recently had an event with 175 entries, that means they are taking in $35,000-$43,000 dollars.
Can anyone give me a breakdown on what that $40K is spent on each event?
Looking at road racing and drag racing in comparison, it seems like there is something either being run inefficiently with LSR, or someone is lining their pockets?