What's your racing background?

[kart racer]

My "other" is stock cars and snowmobile racing.

 

[I-ROC]

I'm getting a Go-Kart soon. With 5hp, I think it could race.

 

[kart racer]

Somthing like this. Leads to this

 

[Context]

My experience is just gaming, my dream was to be a professional racer but now that i am 17. It's basically impossible with the financial state i am in and the fact that i did not start out earlier kinda depressing. Guess that is what gt5 is for...

 

[ZOOSO]

Started racing karts in the mid 80's .. 100cc Yamaha's : 'Clubman Light' Class .. 18hp, total weight kart/myself 130 kilos.

Raced for 5 years on a clay type dirt surface {the track was coated 1 week prior to each race weekend ... with 40 gallons of oil} .. and we raced on slicks !

Then went to bitumen {for another 5 years} which required a complete new learning 'curve' .. never reached the same heights as on the 'dirt' but the experience, the fun, the mate-ship, and the adrelanin was well worth the cost and effort !

Ive since completed numerous club track race days, motokarna's and driver training programes with a Subaru WRX STI {hatch}

Motor-sport is expensive {even in a kart} ... but one day i'd love to buy a Rotax-Max {25hp water-cooled engine kart} and go racing again 👍

 

[Paulie]

Go karts, schools, video games and ashamedly street (well country, it's not so bad when there are no buildings or humans around I guess, but still ).

 

[Widar]

Raced between 15 and 18, then moved and it got to expensive. So all i do these days are autocrosses, track days and crushing my friends on gokarts. All for fun.

 

[Daniel_Elessar]

Well voted for R/C because that's where i started, using a car from my dad who didn't apreciate it he collects alfa romeo scale models and this was a 155 dtm. I did not do real races with it but just playing around with it.

karting when i was around 13 in a 100cc did a few races and it was real fun. Until some excident wich someone pushed me from the track and I hit some other kart wich was standing still with about 80 kph wich is something like 49mph. from that day i had not the guts for at least 3 years to step back into a kart, by the time I did it again it was again great fun.

yes it can be really expensive but my dad know some guy from the time when he was racing karts and it apears that that man had a team who could provide us parts for less.

now i'm 23 and have done some illegal street racing in a honda civic wich was fun but it was when i was 18. Don't know why but i grow older these years and seeing i was so wrong putting myself into that.

now having some trak expirience on zandvoort in a older 911 with a friend who owns it.

 

[ripping_silk]

I've only raced motorcycles IRL. Miniature Road Racing class in New Zealand, also known as 'bucket racing'. 125 four strokes (now 150cc) and 100cc two strokes. I rode my Honda CB125S (pics been posted elsewhere previously). I've raced at Mt Wellington, Pukekohe, and Taupo. Best result was a win (9 wins) in a nine race series at Pukekohe. Took a few wins at Mt Well., (4th in Auckland Club champs) and did well at Taupo.
Also done a few track days at Pukekohe on different bikes I've had.
Online racing - I've raced since mid nineties and 'Grand Prix' by Geoff Crammond. Won a championship in Grand Prix 2 with my 'Silk Racing Team'. Also did LFRS with GP2, but no great results.
Did all 4 Grand Prix games, a couple of Nascar years, Need for Speed, Colin McRae Rally, and all the Gran Turismo series. Considering my reasonably lengthy experience.. I'm still not that quick !! lol . I think its fair to say, some people are born fast... others, like myself have to work (hard) at it, and still never achieve what appears to be easy to others. I got no problem with that though, having a blast is what its all about.!

 

[santiagomo87]

voted for:
- Autocross (2 weeks ago i was in one in a hyundai attitude and i was the 2nd best time!!, only a 50 year old, very experienced formula 3 ex-racer was faster)
- Track days / schools (I have been invited 4 times now, and i just returned home from a little courses from porsche as a viewer, but i usually get my clio sport round mexico city track days)
- Club Racing (I only did 1 race in a VW bug cup which i did not finish hehe that was when I was 15 then we had to sell the car)
- Karting (mostly regular rental karts racing with my bro and friends but i've also driven a 125 shifter and is very very fun)

 

[unv412]

voted illigal but also have done some track days and a bit of autocross.

illigal -every day in the company car (BF Ford Falcon) especially if its wet! lol Street raced (drag racing) from the age of 16 (i'm now 35 and still cant stop) (variety of cars including Mazda RX3) and never pass up the chance to thrash my current cars (R31 GTS-X Skyline and '68 HK Holden Monaro...or the wifes N16 Pulsar when shes not watchin HA)


Track days - include Wakefeild Park at least once a year (mostly in rental commodores or falcons splitting costs between cousins) and the odd outing at Eastern Creek in my cousins VX SS Commodore. OH and the Time I did 3 laps in a rented E Class Mercedes (manual) at the Nurburgring.....made my wife throw up after as she got motion sickness from video tapeing.

If only I had the money.......

 

[RSwagoneer]

Only in games safer that way racetracks have real WALLS.👍

For me that was the main reason to buy GT5P. My mates crashed his Mk3 RS1600i Escort last year. And then you'll see what can happen. Not because you made an error, but another one . And a caged car has some benefits over a non caged car when crashing.
For my mate it was his track car, i'm doing trackdays with my "normal" road car.

 

[Goldfingiz]

Video Games, RC Cars, Illegal , Autocross, Motorcycle: Road.

 

[o SIZE13CHOOK o]

Video games only at the momoent.
Looking at gettiing in to karting real soon though.

 

[s15specr]

Am only 16, I haven't had any. I have went off road in a Fiat Panda when I was 10 but thats about it.

 

[Paulie]

Am only 16, I haven't had any. I have went off road in a Fiat Panda when I was 10 but thats about it.

Not even video games? What are you doing here then!

 

[C.D]

Where's the Tamiya Mini-4WD option?

 

[TorqueHappenS08]

i was brought up around racing, my dad always built 80s model 300zx as track cars
So i helped with that, he then got into scca, So i got the oppertunity to help with some of the cars on track days.
i then mostly started to pratisipate in auto X events, open track days, test and tunes... drag races in the 1/4th mostly.
And now im thinking about putting Grassrootsports racing

 

[s15specr]

Not even video games? What are you doing here then!

yeah the gt games I have ;]

 

[Parnelli Bone]

For me it was

slot cars (age 10-16)

radio-control cars (ages 12-16)

illegal, spontaneous street racing (age 18-23)

video game racing (age 37-42)

 

[JPS]

My father did sidecar racing, left and went onto autograss, very successfull, i followed via helping with car, myself i prefer the drag strip,but have raced around in Vauxhall Monaro, Ariel atoms, Legends, karting plus other stuff, legal and illegal

New to this Video game racing

 

[Mad94d]

I'm 14, I play GT5P and drive Go karts as well.

 

[SpawnBlack]

I started with remote controlled cars and the old Arcade game Out Run, then i moved on to PC Versions first with the Spectrum Computer with the rubber buttons and also hand held racers. Of course with the handheld was back in the Early 80's.

 

[Kneedragger]

I discovered video games with IndyCar Racing in the early 90's, which led finally to TOCA 2 and a heavy online racing scene. Then I stopped gaming and years later discovered sportbikes, knee dragging, track days, elbow dragging, and started racing a little. Its all about tires, and motorcycle tires are expensive and wear out really fast. Then my last crash convinced me to stop breaking bones (what if something serious actually happened to me!?) :-)
Now I'm back into game racing because of the ps3. When GT5 full version comes out I think I wont miss the real thing too much. But full version or not, I'll be damned if I race around in a Prius, if they include hybrid or 'green' cars in the game. Whats next. mini-van challenge??

 

[senzr]

I do track days, autocross and "touge" mountain runs in my WRX. Funnily enough, my experience in GT actually helped a lot in learning racing lines and hunting for grip in real life. I was able to learn a lot faster than others in my classes who've never played GT.

I'm also a partner in a tuning shop for Japanese performance cars. One of our partners campaigns 2 monsters: a 500hp widebody time attack STI and a stroked endurance racing Evo 9 with the whole Tomei and Varis catalogs thrown at them. They also got a GT-R and an Evo X way before anyone else in this region for evaluation purposes.

It's cool to be so close to cars and racing in the real and virtual worlds.

 

[AlexTB]

If you are interested in racing karting is always a good place to start - cheap, fast and low to the ground! If your not that serious, rent them for like £10/ 2 races or something with your mates - great fun!!!

 

[57]

GT starts my car-ralated life
Know nothing about cars
--> got a copy of GT3 and borrowed PS2 from friend
--> bought my first car, MR2 turbo (SW20), doing donut at carpark
--> bought a PS2 and GT4
--> move to INTEGRA (DC5), doing touge runs
--> PS3 and GT5P
--> proud new owner of a MX5 (NC) and first track day in 2 weeks time!!!
thx PD for such a great series!!!

 

[Vaxen]

Welcome to the site 57! 👍

 

[57]

Welcome to the site 57! 👍

thx, great place to be

 

[Milkie]

Mines mainly GT2, a fair few years ago! I didn't like GT3, and my PS2 was not working by the time GT4 came out.

Scalextrix. Does that count?
Co-pilot a fair few times round Castle Coombe.
Karting a couple of times a year.
RC Drifting, nitro and electric.
Learn't left foot breaking, heal n toe and double de-clutching from my dad.
Skid Pan
Quad Biking a few times a year.

I had a Mk2 Escort, that's when my dad booked my skid pan. My next car was a mini, swapped the head for a cooper head and a few other upgrades. My mini is where I learn't some mechanic skills. It spent more time being fixed than driven, but damn goo fun went it was on the road.