[GrandSport]

Originally Posted by CSG Mike

It all really comes down to how much you want to spend a year in upkeep, and how much seat time you want to get annually.

If you ignore the cost of my build, my running cost to do 50 events a year as is would be under $15,000, including ALL consumables, spare transmissions, maintenance, track entries, travel, etc. Of course, if you choose to use stickier tires than I do, that cost will go up. On the other hand, if your pace is slower than mine, your cost could be lower. My running cost for 2018, so far, is under $7000, due to judicious use of consumables and electing to cool down and pull of track when things get hot, instead of "getting one more lap in".

To put it in perspective, a new set of RE71R or Hoosiers are good for about 15 laps for me before they're destroyed; I can run 150+ laps on a set of SX2. In any given year, I tend to run a wide gamut of tires, ranging from low grip slicks to medium grip street tires.

How on earth do you destroy a set of hoosiers in 15 laps? That's barely more than a session at most HPDE.