Spec racing is cheaper but it makes the actual cars expensive. Spec miata is way most costly than just racing miatas. The real way to make it cheaper is a claimer rule so someone can buy the winners car for a set price, so when someone overspends to win, they are spending it to give to another racer.
Spec racing is not cheaper. It costs more cause you jave to have all inex parts with part numbers and stamping on them and cant run aftermarket parts or cheaper parts i raced one of these a few seasons they a blast but expensive
This really looks like something I’d like to get into, but the inability to modify or tune basically anything on the car is sort of frustrating. I’ve watched a couple of race videos where nobody ever passes anyone because the cars are all the same. I like the open wheel cars but it looks like they’re only running the full body cars now?
They designed a Spec car so that people won’t get caught up spending a pile of money trying to beat the other guy. You have to win on talent, not wallet size. Likewise on the full body plan: Open Wheel racing generates a lot of crashes when the wheels get overlapped. You can’t race a car that has crash damage, so the spec here is full-body. There’s plenty of open wheel race series where you can experience the joy of getting outspent by the deeper pockets crowd.
@@oldschoolmotorsickle The open wheel cars I was referring to are the same class as these, they’re not necessarily open wheel, because they have bumpers and side skirts, but they don’t have full aero fenders. As far as the spec class, I understand wanting to race on an even playing field as far as money, but they seal the engines, and that means you can’t do any porting work, carburetor tuning, or anything else that doesn’t cost anything that could give you an advantage.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Right, and that doesn’t sound fun to me. If you can’t tweak your car at all, there’s no point in racing. They say “well it’s about driver skill” but driver skill only goes so far when all the cars go the same speed. I would prefer to have certain things be regulated like CC’s, carb CFM, connecting rod material, but not everything.
@@Flyboy207 Think of the budgets these are intended to be accessible to; doing it this way almost certainly makes for cheaper/more straightforward scrutinizing. Also you get to tweak your car, just not your engine.
Spec racing is cheaper but it makes the actual cars expensive. Spec miata is way most costly than just racing miatas. The real way to make it cheaper is a claimer rule so someone can buy the winners car for a set price, so when someone overspends to win, they are spending it to give to another racer.
There's no "cheap" racing anymore. Even kart racing is ridiculously expensive.
Spec racing is not cheaper. It costs more cause you jave to have all inex parts with part numbers and stamping on them and cant run aftermarket parts or cheaper parts i raced one of these a few seasons they a blast but expensive
This really looks like something I’d like to get into, but the inability to modify or tune basically anything on the car is sort of frustrating. I’ve watched a couple of race videos where nobody ever passes anyone because the cars are all the same. I like the open wheel cars but it looks like they’re only running the full body cars now?
They designed a Spec car so that people won’t get caught up spending a pile of money trying to beat the other guy. You have to win on talent, not wallet size.
Likewise on the full body plan: Open Wheel racing generates a lot of crashes when the wheels get overlapped. You can’t race a car that has crash damage, so the spec here is full-body.
There’s plenty of open wheel race series where you can experience the joy of getting outspent by the deeper pockets crowd.
@@oldschoolmotorsickle The open wheel cars I was referring to are the same class as these, they’re not necessarily open wheel, because they have bumpers and side skirts, but they don’t have full aero fenders. As far as the spec class, I understand wanting to race on an even playing field as far as money, but they seal the engines, and that means you can’t do any porting work, carburetor tuning, or anything else that doesn’t cost anything that could give you an advantage.
@@Flyboy207 No, the whole point is that the cars are equal, like IROC.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Right, and that doesn’t sound fun to me. If you can’t tweak your car at all, there’s no point in racing. They say “well it’s about driver skill” but driver skill only goes so far when all the cars go the same speed. I would prefer to have certain things be regulated like CC’s, carb CFM, connecting rod material, but not everything.
@@Flyboy207 Think of the budgets these are intended to be accessible to; doing it this way almost certainly makes for cheaper/more straightforward scrutinizing.
Also you get to tweak your car, just not your engine.