neil h
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After seeing the thread yesterday with the corsa super1600 rally car was wondering, does anyone here do any sorta grass track/rally driving? If so whats the best/cheapest way to get envolved 'cus it looks like a scream 
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richc
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im not sure but cheap and motorsport dont really go in the same sentence!
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Daimo B
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Theres a regular rally driver who's in the 1400 class that does quite well in a Corsa B (X14 on TB).
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neil h
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quote:
Originally posted by richc
im not sure but cheap and motorsport dont really go in the same sentence!
Your obviously looking at the wrong sorts of motorsport 
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by VXR
Theres a regular rally driver who's in the 1400 class that does quite well in a Corsa B (X14 on TB).
Bendy
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iirc
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Ojc
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Keith Piper?
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by neil h
quote:
Originally posted by richc
im not sure but cheap and motorsport dont really go in the same sentence!
Your obviously looking at the wrong sorts of motorsport
Keep talkin
I know grass routes is "fairly" cheap, but i'd much rather a proper track, of if dirts your thing, it would be more fun to do short rallies. (me anyway  )
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Ojc
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I'd always prefer proper tracks as well. Doesn't have to be massively expensive either TBH.
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Luke
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In total vauxhall a few months ago they had a feature on rallycross, maybe try reading that mag? IIRC there was a guy that spent £3500 on his corsa to do rallycross, was a x16xe i think.
[Edited on 26-11-2008 by Luke]
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Keith Piper?
Keith Raced in the 750mc on tarmac circuits, top bloke though
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neil h
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quote:
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Keep talkin
I know grass routes is "fairly" cheap, but i'd much rather a proper track, of if dirts your thing, it would be more fun to do short rallies. (me anyway )
Well kit cars can be done fairly cheap if your prepared to get really stuck in and have the gear to make one from scratch. And iirc practical performance car mag' used to be envolved with a 2k racing series (car and mods had to be under 2grand).
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jr
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your not thinking of the £999 challange are you ?
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neil h
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Ah that might be the one yeah.
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micra_pete
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depends on what you mean by cheap!
I know a few lads who do rallies / hillclimbs.
Nothing fancy, small engined cars, and they can get rid of £5-10k a year, easy.
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neil h
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Tbh 5-10k a year isn't to bad considering what it costs to organise these things and indeed what it costs to do some events.
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philip2
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my mate competes in the rally X, got several pics of his mk2 escort in TV(head of a pack of 5/6cars in one pic)
he also does the anwcc rallying, and he was saying it cost him £24k to compete in the year, £16k just on tyres.
autograss aint cheap either, maybe looking at £4k for a car 2nd hand.
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SportBoy
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this escort?? . i went that day tv was there , some pics of some of the corsas there that day in my folder
http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/myles-radford/Blyton%2008/
was deffo the most entertaining car to watch 
[Edited on 26-11-2008 by SportyBoy]
[Edited on 26-11-2008 by SportyBoy]
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neil h
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How did your mate get into rally x??
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Rallycorsa
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Tarmac rallying is not cheap if you want to compete my Corsa stands me at around £15k but that is over a year or so. If you want to build a cheapish tarmac car go for Formula 1000 to start or build a Corsa GSI using standard parts should see it finish up around £3k plus running costs on each event say £500.
Michelin tyres £140 each use around 20 a year (8 - 10 events)
Excellent fun but does get very exspensive.
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philip2
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yeah that was mates car, sold it this week, with most of his bits for £10k!! engine and quaife box must be close the 10k alone!!
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