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December 29, 2015 at 9:30 PM #792869
Coronita
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[quote=ucodegen]I don’t know if jumping into ‘tracking’ with a new car is a good idea. The other thing to realize, is that tracking a car is much, much different than running the Qualcomm slaloms. Short wheelbases work well on a tight, comparatively slow track. On ‘track’ like Willow Springs, short wheelbase vehicles can get quite twitchy, particularly if the surface is rough.

Questions:
* Does the vehicle have to be ‘streetable’ or ‘street legal’?
* Do you have a provision for getting the vehicle back should you damage the vehicle to the point that it is not drivable?
* Are you class racing?

The answers above may decide what happens. I know you like small lightweight cars, but on a ‘track’ situation, it is not always the best option.

You might want to look at a Pontiac G8 or GTO, if you can find a manual trans version out there..[/quote]

Hmm. Good points….Didn’t think about that.

I guess this is why you actually want a roof a cage…

RS4 earlier this year @ Willow Springs. Yikes….

Although, I don’t think I would be that aggressive as a beginner for the first few years. I’m not as concerned about chips/dings/etc. I’m more concerned about mechanical breakdown and cost of repair, which I think is why I’m eliminating anything german.

I guess I was thinking that an FRS was reasonable because it’s not that powerful of a car and it’s pretty well balanced, and I wouldn’t be doing any sorts of mods for a long long time until I got better. I wouldn’t be competitive either, just want to have a few weekends of fun. Curb weight is around 2850 and with me in it, it would be over 3000 lbs, so it isn’t exactly *that* light. I would totally get a used one, except used ones seem to cost almost as much as new less a $4-5k, and some of them have 40-50k miles on them.

Ideally, car just needs to be street legal :), though streetable would allow me to ditch one of my beaters. (Trying to kill two birds here)…I thought about getting a tow trailer for my SUV and towing a car, but I don’t think I have room to get a trailer and parking it on the street isn’t an option.