What made you choose your car and racing championship

[Ross_328i_sport]

Good morning,

I'm currently contemplating changing classes having moved to Australia having raced a caterham in mag 7's and funcup in the UK I decided to race formula vee in Western Australia. However despite some great racing I have never enjoyed driving the car compared to the Caterham.

I have recently imported the Caterham to Australia and hope to race it potentially in Formula open but looking back the uk is spoiled for choice. It also got me thinking what others criteria are for racing and what is the highest priority? (Close racing, open regulations to allow self developing of the car, longer races, lightweight cars, higher slip angles, outright lap time)

I think I have struggled with the vee due to coming from relatively high-powered, highly developed Caterham to a low power agricultural formula vee where reliability is an issue. I still haven't decided whether to change from the formula vee catergory or remain as options are limited to Saloon Cars (good close racing, heavier cars with 2-3 gear changes per lap only or improved production where rules are more open and becomes more cheque book but the car would feel more of a race car ( higher revs, multiple gear changes per lap etc).

What were your drivers for choosing you r car and championship and what would make you change?

[WombleCate]

For me it's the right balance between close AND respectful racing, with a friendly paddock as a big bonus.

I started racing in Mag 7s last year in a 1600. We certainly have respectful racing and a friendly paddock. If there are too few low-powered cars the close racing suffers and I think about another club (Graduates or 7Series). However, I can't afford to rebuild the car and with 30 cars heading into the same bend together...

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

I've raced the same car for 20 plus years. It used to be my road car.
It was a good base car and likely to be competitive in the 750MC stock hatch championship ( which it was) but I've kept hold of it due to space constraints, but mostly the cost of changing. I've managed to find alternate formulas where the car can race and be reasonably competitive.

I've also become a reasonable spanner man on this car, there's very little I can't replace on it, so that keeps the cost down.

I've looked at hiring but it close to 2k, per event, which is 3 times what I pay to run my car on an event. So I am a bit stuck as I'd like to race something else, but can't afford the cost to change.