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Originally Posted by mtaylor510
how to you get started in racing?
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Highly variable question depending on your goals, budget, age, geographic location, mechanical capabilities and a few other variables I'm not thinking of. (eg marital status!)
Some options not mentioned:
Karting: best way to develop car-control, racecraft, learn the line, and accumulate cheap seat time. Not as inexpensive as people think, and highly dependent on having a local track.
Skip Barber: best way to get extreme high end coaching in real race cars, requiring no more preparation than owning a helmet and having a lot of disposable income.
Track Days: cheapest way to drive a car on a racetrack, variable coaching, sometimes very good, sometimes just plain wrong. For the price of membership in BMW, porsche or Audi clubs you could be on the track in a couple weekends. There are also for-profit track day outfits like PDA.