Frustration and Anticipation

While I have been a NASCAR RG Fan for quite a while it has been a while since I even watched a whole NASCAR race. I have missed watching RG run ANY race. All these offroad races are not televised, and living in FL there is not an opportunity to watch him run. Needless to say that leaves me frustrated.
On the other hand the SST series being televised has left me with some anticipation of what is to come.
I would love to be able to see RG run more frequently and hate to see his talents to drive about anything, brought down to just offroad.
Hopefully Speed Energy continues to grow and the SST boys can make this thing go without a lot of RG hands on. I would love to see all these projects be successful and free RG up to get in some cars and not just offroad... Can't wait to see what the future holds!
Oh and why not go ahead and talk to the boys at Daytona about making a SST Track around Bike Week? They already have all the dirt for a bike track in the infield, so they may want to rework and get another event out of the effort to bring all that stuff in.
Just thoughts...

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Permalink Reply by James MacFarlane on October 16, 2012 at 9:33am

I think $80,000 was our streek stock budget back 25 years ago.

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Permalink Reply by Michael T. on October 16, 2012 at 8:05pm

These aren't Grand Am Prototypes. The GS class runs nearly stock Camaros, Mustangs, 911s and M3s. The ST class runs Civics, Minis, Mazda Speed3s, Kia Fortes, etc.

You are right that each car has two drivers as the races are 2.5 hours in length. Very few of the teams run more than one car. Boris Said and Andy Lally both run in this series. I could see Robby and P.J. Jones partnering up.

I obviously don't know about what the costs are for a front running car. I was just repeating what the announcers said the manufacturers were aiming for a turn key car for the season. Maybe it's $80,000 to get the car to the first race and doesn't include opporating costs. It's still fun as hell to watch. They just aired the season finale at Lime Rock Park this week on Speed. The ST championship came down to the last turn of the last lap and there were four teams that all had a shot.