Vintage or Champ car?

Every group has its share of people who push beyond what the rules allow.  In some cases it's because what is proper isn't affordable or available. Other cases it's simple outright cheating.  
      Too often others assume money spent must mean cheating is done. I don't believe a particular brand of shock absorbers is such an advantage.  Perhaps to the letter of the rules but not worthy of objection. 

Mel9146 said:

The answer is simple way to much cheating in Champcar.. Afriend and his buddies were running a 924S, needed to replace the shocks, so they bought a brand new set of Konis and painted them a flat v=black and called them the original shocks.  Another group ran a BMW, fee to the team was over 5k per driver (four drivers typical) and everything o the car was rebuilt after every race.

 

There is some rules bending in vintage / historic but nt like chump car.  Also, appears to be a lot of red mist poor prep in champ car.

 

I would rather run a series where I run a safe car, and not illegal.

 

As for tires, you are just beginning, so wait to the end of season and buy the end of season tires for 50 cents on the dollar.

 

I didn't see where you are from, but go to a large vintage event near you and talk to people running a car like you are going to run and see what they say.

 

If you are in the ice belt and looking for inexspensive racing, try ice racing.

Lol wut?

You know you can run any non adjustable shock for no points...

This sounds like somebody who has just heard some negative things on the net, d idnt confirm any of it, it posted as if fact.

There are certainly teams that have cheated in champcar.  However, those cheaters are getting called out and have severe consequences.

Champcar has some of the most competitive racing in this country.  The prep of the front runners is on par with serious race teams.  Is there still room for garage builds and teams that want to be less competitive?  Sure!

The 2 different experiences you describe are WAY out of the norm.  As stated above, you are allowed to change shocks and struts. 

For the BMW situation...  my buddy rebuilds his BMW after every race.  (Multiple race winner). It's about 5k for him to go to a race all in.  NOT per driver.  That would be absolutely ridiculous.