Can you imagine the liability of selling a bent race car to someone and it later crashes? Lawsuit bonanza. Selling even a well-running Locost is iffy at best.
Can you imagine the liability of selling a bent race car to someone and it later crashes? Lawsuit bonanza. Selling even a well-running Locost is iffy at best.
I think I raced a couple of those cars when I did the MX-5 Summer Series in 2009. I never totaled a car though, but did put one in the wall at "The Kink" at Road America. That was an expensive weekend :( I saw a few cars written off that year though. I'm just glad none were done by me.
Racing cars in general, Miatas in particular, are consumables like brake pads and tires. If you buy a new $140k Radical and go do their series, every part on the car ends up as scrap whether you crash it or use it long enough for it to time out and be replaced.
My sports racer program is quite reliable, my last DNF being years ago. When helping my competitors to keep a field of cars together I'm amazed how frequently my question "How long has this X been in service on the car?" is met with "I don't know" or "Since I bought the car" (This was 6 years in the case of a worn out, tiny spherical bearing that was allowing a 40% front camber change under load/unload on a competitor's otherwise lovely car)
Sometimes the car just needs a fresh caged unibody.
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