British Hillclimb championship costs

[DanJR1]

i was wondering how much a general car like the Gould GR51 or the Pilbeam MP88 costs? How much do the engines cost?how much do the running costs come to?

[Tony_Simpson]

There was an artical in Car and car converstions a couple of years ago with the Greame Wright Gould in. That said then the engine was around £20K, the chassis about £40K and then the gearbox (F1) was quite a bit as well. Total around £75K minimum to buy new.

Not sure about the Pilbeam, but same sort of money. Running costs, you need an engine rebuild a year minimum, same with gearbox, new tyres every meeting if not more, add in any accident damage and accomondation, etc, etc

CCC has also done a review on a couple of bike engined cars , and they are talking about £30-40K to be on the hill for.

Hope that helps

[Stuart Hill]

it also depends how much help you can get. At Loton Park this weekend I was informed that a certain driver's paint weighed 1 kg but another driver had just had his car painted (in sponser's livery) and the paint weighed just 1/4kg!! This driver also stated "that's 3 grand to spend somewhere else on the car". !!!!!