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Comment by adwi

7 years ago

Is that any less logical than owning a vehicle than can drive 2-3X over any legal speed limit?

You can take any car to a racetrack and drive as fast as you like for a couple of hundred dollars per event. You can even get professional instruction.

https://www.scca.com/pages/scca-track-events

  • those events do not let you go as fast as you like. there ARE some events that do but its a really bad idea in a car with no cage and safety equipment.

    I've done it of course.

    • I've found that my stomach for speed is inversely proportional to how fast I'm allowed to go. I'm not sure I have the stones to go fast enough to need a roll cage on a race track.

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  • You can also be dropped on Mars with a pressurized Tesla.

    Most people would put 'buying access to a track' into the 'things I will never do'-box.

    • There's a small track I can get on for $35, tho I won't hit triple digits.

      Track nights can be as low as $125 and you will hit triple digits.

      But yea, $125 is equally as out of reach as being dropped on Mars.