2011 Runoffs

[Mrsideways]

Two thoughts:

- First, SS and Touring ain't "cheap" by any means. Far from it. Start with an expensive new car and then spend a s**t-ton of money prepping, rebuilding, and blueprinting it. You'll spend as much money as, for example, a National Spec Miata effort.

And then do it over again when the next new car-of-the-year shows up.

- Second, most people tend to want to race a "real" car, not a street car.

The "cheapest" classes in the long run are those with consistent long-term rules, minimal mods, and competition active ongoing adjustments to avoid model obsolescence. SS and Touring only hit one of those.

GA

I look at SS and Touring as cheap, In SS you can always rip the cage out and sell it as a street car. Sure the rich start with new cars. The rest of us start with $500 salvage title jobs. For instance the Focus SVT we built for SS 2 years ago we bought the car, caged it, extra wheels and tires, brakes, clutch, flywheel, timing belt, and an oil change and were running side by side with that years runoffs winner for $4,870 on the track.
I'm hearing numbers from friends talking about buying a front running spec miata 3,4 and 5 times that number.
the other advantage is there's tons of em running around about to time out for dirt cheap.