Or even Fiesta ST, a downpipe, intercooler, a tune, and beer money?

Over a WRX?

Isn’t 25k base WRX territory?

Heck, would anyone buy this over a manual Mazda3 with the 2.5? Similar price, more power, better fuel economy, and a way nicer interior.

I’m all for small fun cars with more power, but for $25k? Would anyone buy this over a Focus ST?

LOL! Does Canadian County, Oklahoma, actually use KM/h? The calculation here definitely makes more sense.

Because it’s Canadian County:

Was probably a V6 with an exhaust.

#richpeopleproblems

To be really fair, if we all drove Miatas we can actually afford to race and spent our mere mortal budgets on track time, we’d be ungodly good.

I say that having personally owned an Italian motorcycle, Italian car and Italian espresso machine.

Unfortunately, selling heart to buy a kart is also frowned upon.

For a bit of perspective on the whole thing read “Flat Out, Flat Broke: Formula 1 the Hard Way” by Damon Hill. It’s an interesting look at how much money and perseverance it takes to get into racing. Talent helps, but money talks a lot louder.

Without the money, even if you have heart, you’re still most likely nothing.

Me me me and I wanted to be. At 13 I could drink a stick. Unfortunately that stick was in a beat up Datsun my grandfather had. Missed it by millions.

Exactly this. All the money in the world cannot buy determination and persistence towards a goal. You can’t buy heart.

Pretty much this. People who are born into money have everything so much easier. When I was 13 I was competing on cross country bicycles and soap box stuff because I couldn’t afford karting like I wanted to do.

Yep, pretty much. I bet there are hundreds of talented races that never happened because, um... uhm... they don’t have $1mil a year to maintain a race team.

To be fair, we’d all be that good if we were ungodly rich.

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