How many track / race days do you guys actually ride per year??

JayG

JayG

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Hey guys,

If you ONLY ride track...how many times do you actually get to ride in a year? Track days / race days?

Right now I'm street riding almost every weekend (during season) so wondering if it is even worth switching to track (hard choices on a budget!)

Thanks,
 
meme said:
Trackdays only. About 20.

My record was 42 3 or 4 years ago.
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Holy Hannah!

I think my record so far is 8.

Racing with SOAR this year so that should increase a bit for 2014. I'd do all 6 (7 with Shanny?) SOAR rounds including Fridays plus the practice weekend if was up to me, but that totals 23 days and I am guessing my spouse might have something to say about that....
 
First year racing so that is 6 weekends (maybe 7 if the combined race series is run) so that is 12-14 days and I have 8 track days booked so that is 20-22 days at the track. I still have the streetbike out this year and will have some weekday rides, weekend rides and one week down at deals gap (hopefully if I have vacay left).
 
I will be doing about 8 to 10 track days, plus 7 race weekends (2 days) and 1 practice weekend. Plus Endurance racing in hopefully all race weekends.

I also did a few weekends in PA, and many day rides.

Keep your street bike and buy a cheap track bike.... however track bike prices are just going up every year

Or if you are really committed and on a budget, sell your shinny pretty street bike, and use the money to buy an older street bike and a used track bike

It is worth it
 
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For the last few years I averaged 2 or 3 track days.
 
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Last year was my third and biggest year with 8 race weekends, 6 of them with a Friday practice and one or two track days.

I can't be bothered to ride street anymore and my dirt bike buddies are getting back into it next year so I'll have a way to scratch the itch between race weekends.
 
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I did 10 in a row at Bogie, that felt like groundhog day by the second weekend.

It's been fun but I want a street bike again soon.
 
Last few years were 8 and 5. Hope to do 8-10 this year.
Then again - I also ride street.
 
8-10, would like to get to 12 or so with a dedicated track machine now
 
Plan for this year, all 7 SOAR rounds (including the joint RACE round at Shannonville), plus 3 VRRA rounds (Shannonville, Grand Bend, Mosport), probably one beginning-of-season warm-up practice day, and probably one GTAM track day.
 
rideitlikeyoustoleit said:
I'm having a hard time deciding what I should focus on this year. I can probably afford both but it's just not practical. If you had one choice, would you do every track event in the year or do 0 track days but street ride for the season?
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Buy a bike that can do both.
 
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