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Originally Posted by Alan Morgan
Super Tourers (complex, very expensive cars which are mainly run by professional teams) pay £8.25 per minute of track time at Oulton. Historic FF2000 cars (Transit engine, moderately-priced, mainly run from a domestic garage) pay £8.27 per minute.
It will be interesting to see what the Super Tourer numbers are like at Knockhill, where the entry is free.
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Actually many of them aren't run by professional teams, and those that are, aren't what you would call big teams with lots of staff. That said, they are certainly not a 'one man and a van' operation.
Knockhill has already been and gone, and the entry wasn't good. It was 2 weeks after the Silverstone Classic, and 3 weeks prior to Gold Cup, which is part of the problem. These aren't the sort of cars where you can just wipe with an oily rag and be ready for the next race. They need to be partly stripped and rebuilt, which isn't always possible in the timescales with limited resource. (I appreciate they aren't unique in that respect.)