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Old 6 Nov 2007, 10:16 (Ref:2060963)   #18
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Cheap-cheap!

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Originally Posted by Elio
I was thinking along the lines of a kind of Junior FPA - with cars A HELL OF A LOT CHEAPER than they must have been to produce. I suppose more along the line of BRDC single seaters, but less sophisticated.
You would be hard pushed to get an established constructor of racing cars to buy into the "HELL OF A LOT CHEAPER" concept. Just imagine the tooling costs alone, never mind the crash testing/safety aspects of a commercially marketed product!

I have to agree with an earlier contributor, there are plenty of cheap ways to start - FF1600, Formula Renault and FVee to name but three. The idea of a single chassis, cheap to buy & run racing car is fantastic but just not realistic!

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