PocketMatrix

Everyone has a lifelong dream, one that is basically impossible, like becoming a professional baseball player, or being a super famous pop star; well, I too have a vision, and that would be a professional WRC driver. Now, realistically, I do have one option, SCCA rally racing. SCCA is the Sports Car Club of America, and they are the only rallysport organisation in the US (people here don't know what ProRally is...), and all you need is a car that meets requirements. What most amateurs do, is start in the SCCA RallyCross, which needs nothing other than any car (and a helmut, which you can rent at the event), and it's similar to a real rally race, but instead of deadly trees, it's cones, on a dirt track. After becoming professional at this, they go to ProRally, which is the serious stuff. I've been to the largest rally race in the northeast, Maine Forest Rally, which is very large (for an American rally race...), and it was amazingly fantastic! What I would like to do, mostly likely during college years, is to (I know, I know) sell my car (I would ONLY sell it to Volkswagen's AutoMuseum at Autostadt, where it will be preserved forever for all to see), and buy an already made rally car (I'd like an era 1990 Audi Coupe GT Quattro), and try a crack at rally racing. I'd probably have to get sponsorships (manufacturers very oftenly will fully fund an amateur driver, who doesn't need a million dollars to maintain a super WRC car). So, what do you guys think? I love rally motorsports, excluding Le Mans racing, it's the only true motorsport. In WRC, I rute for Skoda (quite a bad loss in Finland over last week though....), yet VW races often too (the driver for one of the WRC Polos is female, and is the only female ever to win a WRC race). Audi doesn't do much anymore, they've gone to 100% dominating Le Mans. So anyway, to become a racer, you just need to complete 2 school (which takes 2 weekends). Just read that you have to be 21 to get a ProRally license....crap...well, I could race in RallyCross, which I can use my existing car. So that's it.

This is what a normal SCCA is, this VW GTI is $5000 with 4 sets of tires (tarmac, dirt, gravel, and snow).

This is what I'd like, , only $20,500, very cheap actually.

Evo 3? Those things are pretty awesome.

But I wouldn't take your existing car to the rallycross.. Your car is too rare to do something like that to it.

No, purse as in the prize for winning the race.

But if it's that kind of track then I guess it's not as bad as I roiginally thought. Go for it, sounds like fun

(forgive missepellings, no contacts and glasses broke)

I'd expect that for ProRally, the winnings would be substantial, it's enough just to enter the race, so I'd think the prize for winning would be somewhere deep in the 4-digit zone; as for RallyCross, either in the lower 4-digit, or mid 3-digit zone I'd think, but these are only estimates.