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Delta and I have chatted about this recently. It was much easier to go racing in the seventies, when we started as twenty-somethings. You put a towbar on your road car, bought a helmet and the best overalls you could afford, sent off for a race licence and entered your first race (£12 in 1977 - about £80 in today's money).
Now, you can't tow unless you've done the appropriate course, you have to take an ARDS test, you've got to buy the approved overalls, a HANS device, possibly replace the belts and extinguisher in your second-hand racer and spend £250+ on an entry. It's no wonder track days are popular with younger drivers.
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