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Hate to be the note of caution but I have raced Caterhams...
(K Series, 1996 Championship)
I don't consider the racing to be safe enough although in the Academy (ie without big TV coverage) the racing might be less desperate.
Of the 4 of us in my team for 1996, 2 stopped racing after coming very close to dying at Castle Coombe (in the same accident, one of them spent 6 months recuperating. I gave up racing Caterhams at the start of the next season when someone broke their pelvis in a low speed shunt at Silverstone (exiting Woodcote). The fourth guy raced on and was sadly killed at Oulton Park last year.
I would buy a Super Coupe cup car: £3,000
Go to Race School (weeks course): £1,500
Entries for season (12 races): £2,400
Tyres (4 sets): £1,600
Bit of fuel etc, all numbers above approximate
Total Spend: £8,500 + damage
but car will still be worth £3,000.
Cars MUCH cheaper to repair than a Caterham (again you have to trust me on that, but easy to tweak a Caterham chassis and it has to be stripped, shipped, straightened, rebuilt)
IMHO
RickP:Clio51
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