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Originally Posted by Just Do It!
A multi-car (3+) could probably run a season on $250-300k each due to some economies of scale. I have been told that some teams are budgeting for $100k per car per round, which makes it simliar money per round as the Supercar Series. If a driver owned the car, then $250-300k is probably not inconceivable, but it would need some crash funds over and above that sum as a buffer.
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If a BA costs $300k to buy, second hand... how does a season cost only about that much? Sure, some teams like DJR are running cars paid for out of budgets of seasons past, but they still are maintaining an upkeep on them often beyond the levels available to private teams.
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Originally Posted by Just Do It!
PCR would be the only team that came close to a 3-car operation I would think. Apparently a walk-up start there starts at $300k, with other things built into it at additional expense.
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And do what? Drive a car that first saw service on Australian race tracks in 1999?
There is no way a second string AU will be a consistent winner in the HPDC series with so many L1-supported BAs running in the series. Unless the usual team/budget/driver equation is perfect... it wont happen.
Money makes HPDC go round... how fast can you afford to go?