[dradernh]

Originally Posted by 35etrgsd

dradernh and msendit

I'm myself in the market for a new car. I've done ~20 autocross events and 3 rallycross events and I'm looking to get back into them.

Base on your expertise, does it make sense to build a car over time to do both motorsport? Whether it be a 230i or any other car and if you can list the car(s).

I'm afraid I know so little about rallycross that I can't offer a useful opinion.

I've done little in the way of autocrossing, just a couple of Evo School events and one actual autocross event. The one thing I did come away with was that a car that is easily turned is one that's going to be quite a bit more fun to compete with. I don't think of our cars as being among those that are easy to turn at speed; they're just too heavy to be nimble.

However, if a 230 is what an owner has, then he or she will still find a way to have fun. After all, the main idea is to get the car out onto the racing surface and drive it to its limits.

Most of us build a car over time because that's what we can afford to do. I think there's another reason to do that, too: as you learn more about your car, the sport, and what you want out of both, you might make more appropriate modifications than if you made them all at once at the beginning. Lots of owners have had to re-do modifications after discovering that one or more of them that they'd made didn't really suit them, the car, or the particular type of competition they regularly entered.

OTOH, if you or a shop you use already know pretty much everything you need to know to go racing, and you can afford it, then I'd suggest that building the car all at once makes more sense.