City car cup

[wanzap1]

Anybody racing in the new city car Cup race series or any thoughts. I'm thinking of doing a build for next year?

[Truckosaurus]

Have you watched the BOM youtube series on it?

There is, of course, also the C1 Racing Club for more endurance style events in the same (but different) cars.

[DanTVR]

It looks good. Although the C1 makes for an entertaining race car, it seems much better suited to the endurance type events due to the usual extra costs of fuel/tyres and wear on engines and gearboxes as these are cheaper to replace. If you are going to enter a one make championship there are better base cars which are faster/more interesting and better suited to sprint racing.

The benefits of a cheap car dont really make as much sense when you aren't doing loads of hours on track so I dont think the cost saving will be much vs. an MX5 or clio or anything else.

All in my opinion of course, and if it appeals to you then go for it.

[semprini27]

We run in the EnduroKa series - as earlier posters say, for cheap-ish endurance racing the low power / cheap parts / smiles per miles elements are there, but for sprint races you can get much quicker cars for the same money - just bought a Clio Cup 182 race car for about the same as the EnduroKa cost to build.

[Merry]

I've been tempted by this, but was wondering if something else could be done for not much more cost. Something mx5 would be ideal but I guess the appeal with the City Car Cup is you can pretty much buy a car that's ready to go.

Is that something that can be done in other classes?