It's the only attitude to have if you're strapped for cash!!!......... why would you bother driving hundreds of miles up and down the country if you can't afford to compete properly?, doesn't make sense to me. You'd be better off doing club meetings and regionals and actually enjoying it rather than going to a national and not being able to do your best because of your budget
Unfortunately money plays a part in everything we do in life and unless your lucky enough to have loads of it then for most of us we can only dream of doing the things we'd love to do ........... I'd love to do all sorts of things but I can't because I can't afford it, but I can afford to race model cars at national level. I use a tent and camp out, the Travelodge's are cheap but if you take away that cost and put it into tyres that would make more sense.
We're probably only talking about an extra set of tyres per class so it's an extra £15 or £20 per day, hardly anyone (including the top boys) uses a set a run anymore because there is usually more grip than even they can handle. How much would you expect to spend at an average national?
We've all got two (at least) cars, complete with expensive radio gear, top notch speedo's/motors/servo's, it all costs far more than a couple of extra pairs of tyres. You can have all the best equipment in the world but without grip the things are useless and as said before, if you think you'll level the playing field by limiting the amount of tyres then think again because the best will always be the best, they didn't get there because they had tyres thrown at them for free, they got there because they were good. If you take away the grip, they'll still win, just by a bigger margin because the rest of us will suffer.
The more the merrier at national level, i'd never want to put anyone off entering but if you want to compete properly you'll have to spend some money on the basic running costs i'm afraid
