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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- This video details the process of me buying a race car. There was a lot to research and understand, and maybe it was good I had to wait so long to sell my Sileighty, since it gave me plenty of time to be thorough. I’m beyond excited about the journey to come!
Some thanks and acknowledgements:
My family and friends, for listening to me ramble on about buying a race constantly for half a year.
My best friend Dave, for helping me prepare, and then accompanying me on a very long drive to pick up the car.
James, the seller of the red Williams prototype, for answering many questions when I thought this was the one. Unfortunately my driveway made it too hard.
Darren from the NSW Super Sport series, for answering questions on racing in that series.
Greg from the NSW FRCA, for being generous with his time in person at SMSP and answering many further questions in follow up communications.
Derek, seller of the yellow F1000 and co-founder of F1000 racing is Australia, for answering questions on his car and the F1000 category in general.
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Why I wanted to sell my track car
2:55 Where do you buy a race car?
www.my105.com/
3:13 My race car budget
4:03 Race car criteria
5:49 Clubman
6:08 Formula Ford
6:35 Legends / Aussie Racing Car
7:00 Formula Vee
7:05 Radical
7:27 Williams MkII Prototype
• First Drive - Williams...
8:00 NSW Formula Race Car Association
8:38 Formula 3
8:56 Formula 4
9:20 Formula 1000
Blend Line TV F1000 video: • 2017 Australian Formul...
11:31 Buying a trailer
11:54 Picking up the car
14:28 Conclusion
As a F1 fan I absolutely love this new channel. Can't wait to see the build and then in action.
I'm excited to drive it too.
After racing circuit boats for a number of years, I know 1st hand that any form of racing takes, dedication, patience, time, luck, friends and most of all money, most of those things I lost along the way. Cannot wait to see what you achieve with this pathway, and how you combine it with your love of 3D printed parts.
3d printed turbo charger coming up.
Did I heard it right ? The driving experience was on your 40th birthday ? Hell that's some great genes !! Awesome car , have a long and fruitfull ownership !!!
Looks like a fantastic purchase for the budget - your patience and careful research was well worth it.
I am pretty meticulous with that type of thing, but being forced to wait until the other car sold made me extra thorough.
I think I am living vicariously through you Michael. This was my dream many many years ago. Loved the postscript.
I've got a few post video clips like that rather than the same one on the main channel. Glad you liked it.
If distance and transport weren't an issue, I would have suggested a Formula Star Mazda from the early 2000s. They were powered by the Mazda Renesis engine (twin rotary) with 240bhp and high reliability. Most listed sell for less than your budget (US$25K).
When you said "for my 40th birthday" I couldn't believe it! You don't look a day over 28, good for you mate!
Found this video really really fascinating, it was so great how you documented your whole process. As a British guy, I find it admirable the lengths you Aussies have to go for getting motorsport stuff😅. I'm lucky enough to be 15 minutes from donington park, and could get to most race tracks in England within 3 hours. When you said "it's in the same state as me, but over 200 miles away" I was baffled, I always forget how huge Australia is😂.
I have nothing but respect for the journey you've gone on to get this car. I am incredibly excited to watch the rest of the videos on your racing journey, thank you for making this for us to watch😁
Europe (and particularly the UK) is definitely where it's at for motorsport. I'm roughly half way between Eastern Creek and Bathurst, with the newer Luddenham Raceway closer still. Not quite the same as you but plenty to keep me busy at the moment.
@robinthebobin6537 : There is a TV series called 'Outback Truckers' not too high on artistic merit, but it gives a very clear picture of the vastness of Australia, and how undeveloped the interior territories are. From a different point of view: I live in New Zealand, similar land area to the UK. When visiting relatives near London we quickly said 'Yes' when the offered to drive us back to our accommodation... after all, it would only be about a 30 minute drive (In NZ). When they dropped us off after a three and a half hour stop-start drive, we were very embarassed!
NZ's total population is less than London's!
The journey video I didn't know I needed! Thanks for taking us along. Really cool!!
I'm looking forward to this series, your style in your teaching tech channel is great and will transfer well. I appreciate you detailing the whole process, it's really interesting and often overlooked by other channels just focusing on the racing.
Been watching your main channel for a few years now and you've helped me out so much with my 3d printers. Can't wait to follow along with this new journey of yours!
Congrats on getting your racecar! I can't wait to follow along on your journey !
This is so cool, watching your channels is like looking into a mirror of everything I have visions and dreams of chasing. TH-camr, keen to share knowledge, having a racecar. Thanks for sharing! I'm very much enjoying the journey you're taking me on :)
Im absolutely excited to see your journey, hope everything goes well and get that race win
Congrats!! What a dream!!
Can't wait to see it on the track!
As allready said, I'm really excited to see and hear about the tech of the car. Also I think you'll be really happy with it, since you've put so much time and effort in choosing the car. I've bought an 325ti track car some years ago, without fully thinking it throught and even so it was very fun to drive, I've noticed pretty soon, that the car wasn't right for me - completly stripped without AC or Radio, running semislicks, 6-point harness and bucket seats. Driving it on curvy roads or track was loads of fun - getting there, not having a trailer, was exhausting at least...
I wish you no trouble/crashes and instead a load of fun and will happily wait for the upcoming videos :)
This is amazing! Congrats dude, can't wait to see more!
Congratulations I cant wait to watch the journey.
Huge congrats mate. I learnt to drive circuits in my dad's historics, and have looked at the f1000 cars for about a decade - kids, surfing and work have held me back. These are the icon of fun open wheel - you've hit the jackpot I reckon. Keep us dreamers posted on how it all plays out! Hope to come and watch a race at SMSP really soon.
i can already tell this will be one of my favourite channels to watch keep up the work
No wayyyy, congrats!! Cant wait on the upcoming videos!
I recently came across your channel and watched this particular video, and it was quite an engaging experience. I'm looking forward to finishing the entire series of your race car videos, and indeed, you've gained a new subscribe
That is really cool! Can't wait to follow your journey!
Great video, looking forward to seeing your racing progression
Excited that I’m here at the beginning. Can’t wait to watch your future developments 👍
Congrats and good luck.
Can’t wait to see more! Excellent documentation of the process
Congrats, this has to be the dream of many Motorsport fans, can’t wait for more updates
Yeah I'm in. Subbed and belled. Best of luck with your journey mate. I'm looking forward to seeing how you go.
I've watched many of your TT videos over the years, being a sim racer and a general fan of motorsport, it will be fun to watch this channel as you progress. Cheers from Canada
Welcome to the club. Learn a lot from your 3d printing channel, so look forward to watching you progress. This is my 25th year competing in sports cars so happy to help with any questions on racing :-)
Excited for you - this is off-the-charts cool! 🤩
cant wait to see the progress on the car and you as a driver
Love this type of channel! subbed so I'm along for the ride.
Congrats and good luck!
always been a fan of your 3d printing channel in depth, now racing evens better
You are hella underrated! Love the content! Keep this up and your gonna be the among the big ones.
Easily the coolest thing I've found and subbed to in ages
I am absolutely ready to follow this journey! This and your main channel fit my interests so well 👌 Good luck with everything! Shame about Danny Rics' broken wrist today. Greetings from the Netherlands!
I watched the whole thing convinced i'd seen you somewhere before, it wasn't until the very end that i realised i'd watched a load of your stuff a couple of years ago when i was shopping for a 3d printer... not sure i have the budget to follow in your footsteps on this one though :D
You only need one kidney..
I'm here to support you because a learned so much on your other channel. Can't wait for al the new content. Subcribed!
Best wishes for great racing.
Amazing looking car, can't wait to see your journey through the life of thee race car !
Well put together video!
8:15 i really enjoyed exploring your brain’s thought process and the step by step ideas you had to fit your problem priorities and criteria
looking forward to you going through all the ins and out of the car, this was a great video to start the journey!
That video is ready to go for next week. I've currently got all the bodywork off fitting some updated parts.
Congratulations on your purchase. This car looks like a blast.
What a well done well thought out presentation.
If this is how you roll I am in to follow your journey with the car.
Good luck from Chicago USA, mate.
Glad I got here early. Looking forward to watching this journey. I'm from a dirt racing family in Kentucky and I'm just starting to enter the world of sim racing.
This is very cool. I recently discovered f5000 vintage racing i wish i could do something like that here in the states. Congrats and godspeed on your journey
So excited for you!
Looks like a great buy, looking forward to seeing you take it for a drive.
I used to watch your 3D print videos, excited to run across a racing channel of yours. And someone who actually bought a real race car, niceeee - subbed
Always good to have a Dave-O to road trip with!
good god im jealous, enjoy it man, hope it gives you a lot of fun
Big congratulations! I am 27 now, hustling my arse off in hope to afford an open wheel race car myself. I will follow your journey!
Rooting for you man! It’s encouraging to see that you can get these cars for pretty affordable prices, I’m working hard so I can afford one in 2-3 years.
Awesome car congrats!! Hope to see more videos of it being turned into an absolute machine on the race track.
Great video and channel!
Lovely to find someone with the same JDM and Racing addiction.
Subscribed and excited about the progress with your new car :)
Awesome! I'm newly interested in this sort of content, and in F1 and Indy Car racing. I've gotten back into Slot Cars.... after quite a long time messing with them as a Kid - and it has actually piqued my interest in this type of stuff! I loved this vid. So much fun, and so cool to see how you got into this situation. Can not wait to follow along with you on this journey, and see what you do with the car - and some cool racing fun! Awesome. And all the best with it - from the States.
Great video. Keep them coming
living the dream man! Nice racecar! Looking forward to seeing it run!
Many congrats! That's a sweet car, and seems to fit your situation really perfectly.
I appreciate your breakdown of pricing, since it's often really tough to get a sense of what the cost is to enter into motorsports. Would love to see some discussion of long-term accrued costs as you get ramped up over the next few months.
Thanks. I will definitely address that down the line.
subscribing cuz i cant wait to see this journey!!
Congrats on achieving the step of your happiness.
Nice one Michael,
I discovered your other channel having discovered that 3DP is now properly accessible to the layman. I come from a background as a motorsports design engineer, so my experience with SLA and SLS was just designing parts that were handed over to the RP boys, who made them. You've helped loads with your site and it seems to have gone full circle with you getting a formula car. This is great, if I can be of any help at all, just shout. Can't wait to see this channel unfold and see how you get on.
Keep it on the black stuff :)
Ade
Loved this.
I’m so glad TH-cam recommended this channel to me 🙏🙏
Nice. Great video!
Brilliant video mate
Congratulations! That will be a ton of fun to drive and race! I went with a SR3XX, but without the ability to remove the front splitter it requires 10 feet of ramp and 4 huge boards to load it into my enclosed trailer, so not exactly convenient 😅 But sure is a blast to drive!
This brought back memories from my 2nd race car, a Ralt RT5 I bought in 1982. That thing looked like it was home sitting in my garage. I'm going to subscribe to see what you do with yours. Have fun.
This was really informative. I'm in Canada so it would be a bit different but sharing the steps was very informative. I hope to do the same in a year time. Thank you!
This is such an interesting video. Truel well done. Cheers mate
Well done !
bro, i can see it infront of me how fkn super stoked and lyrical you mustve been when rolling it into the garage! Such an awesome feeling, rolling a new vehicle into ur garage!!!
"33k sounds like a lot of money."
_Laughs in Motorsport_
I'm totally jealous. Outside of the odd track day with a rented car, I'm stuck with getting my racing fix with Sims.
Big congrats. Nothing is better than single seater racings. Enjoy.
So excited to see more videos! I’m so jealous! Wish we had more open wheel leagues/clubs in the west coast of ‘murica
It's absolutely fantastic in this day and age to find a down to earth person like this who has made and still makes great well thought out decissions about making his passion come through. I can only imagine the feeling of racing a liteweight open wheeler, the lack of inertia and fantastic feeling of race suspension. The closest I've gotten was in a Lotus street car 10 years ago. After that I dreamed of designing and building a liteweight Porsche 909 Bergspyder like car with an Audi TT 1.8T midmounted drivetrain but that's for my next life ha ha.
Congratulations on your purchase. I hope you enjoy the journey. I loved the backstory and the logic behind the choice. I would concur with most of them. Our point of difference may be that I would have chosen the Super Sports series, as I think it is incredibly strong at the moment and getting better all the time. That said you explained why you didn't go that route and it makes sense. I am a professional race engineer and am currently involved in the Super Sports series in NSW. I was also involved with the original Speads Sports Racers when they were imported by Meridian Motorsport. Happy too chat if you think it may be useful.
Small world :) If it wasn't for my driveway I would have bought the Williams and entered Supersports. Darren was super helpful. I had a builder come to the house to quote on structural modifications to accommodate a crane/hoist for getting the car onto a trailer, but it just wasn't worth it. FRCA and SuperSports are quite often racing at the same events so maybe I'll meet you next year at some stage.
So awesome. I'm excited to see what engineering grade 3D printed mods are made for it. 🏁
Best of luck with the car from everyone here in Pennsylvania. Glad you got an open wheel car as that form of racing is the best and most interesting. (Super cars are pretty cool, too).
Great idea, Michael and congrat's on the purchase. I've just been through the same decision and bought a 1000cc Ya-Car Cross Kart with broadly the same specification as you had. It should arrive later this year so I'll be doing a few track days to shake it down. If you're interested in catching up at one and doing a bit of a comparison then drop me a line. Cheers, Rob
She's a beauty mate I hope you have many happy days at the track with her
An F1000 is a lot of car for your first openwheel race car probably a FF or F4 would have been the better choice when starting out. But atleast you bought the slowest F1000 (Speads) an aero brick in a class that was highlighted by some radical aero choices (see JDR). Your first 3D printing project for the car should be new smaller side pods as the frontal area on those cars was huge! Good luck and if you do feel like the car is too much dont be afraid to sell it and move down a class or two no sense ending up driving a fast car at only 30% vs a slower car at closer to 100%
loved this video!
Subscribed for more, looking forward to learning with you.
No idea how this cropped up in my reccomended, but this is fantastic to watch! Best of luck mate, hope it goes well.
Welcome aboard!
I’ve been following you for years, and you have no idea how excited I was to see you start a Motorsport channel!! I’m a huge Motorsport fan with my own race car, so love watching anything ms! If you had started talking to me about buying a race car, you would still be talking to me about it haha
Most people in my life were very patient. I tried to be aware of it and control myself too.
Please Document as much as possible. As an F1 fan this is kind of a childhood dream for me !!
Well I'm here for the long hawl! Let's go!
I’ve been going through this process off and on for a couple years. I even went out and saw that yellow F1000 in WA. The car I ended up buying was a Tarmac Rally car and is an absolute dud. After it’s fully sorted (as I don’t intend to pass on a problem) I’ll sell it and I’ll be back in the market for an open wheeler. Wish I’d gone that way first time. Look forward to following your journey.
Love the video, enjoy the car, I enjoyed the little homage to Senna as he's my countryman.
A man of the people
Loved the video bro, topped off with a rough paraphrasing of one of the greats hahaha
Goody goody... and it is a PROPER race car. Not hobbled by production car engine / trans / suspension etc. Nice choice Michael! 👍
Liked and Subscribed.
Watching this made me realise how great it is living in the UK.
Just looked on Racecars Direct, and found around 6 cars that would have fitted your criteria. F1000 Jedis, a 900cc Speads (very similar to what you got), a carbon tub Mygale, and an older Ralt F2000 Toms Toyota.
New subscriber here. This is amazing, great work. I hope to be following in your footsteps within a few short years as I’m interested in giving a formula car a run
I'm a layman in motorsports, but this was very interesting to watch. Congrats for the car! :)
Yay for Dave and Darrel!
Invaluable.