How much does a BTCC Car Costs?

[Amireles]

I've been following BTCC for a small while, and I've always wondered how much one of those cars cost and what kind of budget the teams have each season. Anyone knows ???

[bigred]

there are various costs
cost to develop a car eg halford civic
cost to buy a car from a manufacturer eg rac bmw
cost to buy a nearly new car eg seat toledo
cost to run a team
cost to buy a drive
cost to run a car/team for a season

some of these numbers we'll never know other im sure a few will take a guess at but there are a lot of zero's in all of them

[FlashGordon]

im not sure but as BigRed has said we will never know some of the amounts. But in Autosport they claim to get to F1 (top of the open wheelers) will cost a Driver not the team 3.6 Million pounds. So I know the BTCC will be less then that by a few Million but it will still be a high price for the driver and an even higher price for the team.

Anyone know how much the prize was that Matt Jackson won? Cause im guessing 90% or more of that went towards a 1 year old BMW so you can add a few thousand pounds more onto a brand new BMW from the factory. That will then give you a start point, then theres the fees you have to pay to enter the championship (of which Alan may if hes kind let us know), theres the wages of the staff and drivers. Then theres also the cost of getting from one race to another, storage when theres not a race, spares, repairs, new parts.

All in all theres a lot to calculate for.

[mattlovestbs]

im not sure but as BigRed has said we will never know some of the amounts. But in Autosport they claim to get to F1 (top of the open wheelers) will cost a Driver not the team 3.6 Million pounds. So I know the BTCC will be less then that by a few Million but it will still be a high price for the driver and an even higher price for the team.

Anyone know how much the prize was that Matt Jackson won? Cause im guessing 90% or more of that went towards a 1 year old BMW so you can add a few thousand pounds more onto a brand new BMW from the factory. That will then give you a start point, then theres the fees you have to pay to enter the championship (of which Alan may if hes kind let us know), theres the wages of the staff and drivers. Then theres also the cost of getting from one race to another, storage when theres not a race, spares, repairs, new parts.

All in all theres a lot to calculate for.

Mat Jackson won £250k for winning the Seat Cupra series, so yeah, a lot of that will have gone on the proven BMW 320siE90 of Andy Priaulx :)

[BTCC2]

SEAT have a 2007 budget of £3 million. I would expect that Vauxhalls will be more than this as they have had to develop a brand new car.

[mark]

SEAT have a 2007 budget of £3 million. I would expect that Vauxhalls will be more than this as they have had to develop a brand new car.
Ah, but that £3 million was stated in the Telegraph supplement as being Seat's complete Motorsport budget for the UK, so you have to factor in the cost of running the Cupra Championship in that as well, which must be a fair sum.

As for their BTCC programs, you'd be confident to say Seat and Vauxhall have to be spending over a million pounds each, Team RAC and Halfords, can't be far behind.

[ted]

dont forget the amount of dosh spent on crashes, which must be alot. drivers like murry must hate this subject!

[Reidy_fan]

Mat Jackson won £250k for winning the Seat Cupra series, so yeah, a lot of that will have gone on the proven BMW 320siE90 of Andy Priaulx :)

eh:confused: the prize was 100k for the SCC so take out your running costs to win the SCC in mat's case 50k minimum as a lot was done by his own support crew, sale of his own car 15k so 65k towards BTCC season.

Mat will probably be re-morgaging everything to race this year

[more forward please]

Looks like you can buy a pretty competative car for cheaper than you think.(40K)

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/151073.htm

someone should snap that up! was faster than pinkney's integra for most of the season and even beat Jordan on quite a few occasions.

I believe to buy a dynamics integra you are looking at about £110K!

[adet406]

did nt fia say s2000 cars had to be under 250 000 to buy :rolleyes: of the shelf


but seams most sell from 50k to 150k

[psq43]

Looks like you can buy a pretty competative car for cheaper than you think.(40K)

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/151073.htm

someone should snap that up! was faster than pinkney's integra for most of the season and even beat Jordan on quite a few occasions.

I believe to buy a dynamics integra you are looking at about £110K!


Yes but what oyu forget is that that car is a very old, in racing years, chassis, updated by the team. Possibly James Kaye had more to do with it being faster than Dave Pinkney!!

Ya can buy it cheap for sure, but how much EXTRA would it cost your ot make a decent job of keeping up with more recent, updated, cars???

eh!

[FlashGordon]

Looks like you can buy a pretty competative car for cheaper than you think.(40K)

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/151073.htm

someone should snap that up! was faster than pinkney's integra for most of the season and even beat Jordan on quite a few occasions.

I believe to buy a dynamics integra you are looking at about £110K!
I do believe that that Civic may well be BTC not S2000 spec. So it may well have been a competitive car but not a modern car like the Alfa 156, BMW 320, TD Civic etc.