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apparently back in business
Totally new company - just bought the name - but many of old instructors have been hired.Quote:
Originally Posted by provamo
Started out with Mustang based schools.
Recently have gone with expensive NEW Formula Cars like Lucas School etc.
So Skip Barber 5.0 (yes there were a lot of resets) seems to be getting back to solid ground.
Disclaimer - I have no experience other that word of mouth from some in industry.
ChrisZ
PS - Roos ended up with some of the old cars (and rebuilt completely) and some of the Instructors went there also.
Looked up some prices - a lot of sticker shock.- if all the schools are like this - could drive people back to SCCA.
for the formula car school, i found only 1 day classes on the calendar through 2021. the price was $2195, just about what it was when they shuttered last time.Quote:
Originally Posted by FVRacer21
i can see this actually being successful, since the school cars are now F4 cars. lots and lots of kart grads will want to do this.
That's a great price! Sounds too cheap even
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When I did my 3 day school at Sebring back in 1984 the cost was $1,100 for the full 3 days. At the end of one day Bruce took us over to a garage on the other side of the track to so us a new car that would revolutionize FF racing. I think it was something called a Swift.
Ed
The Three day Formula School looks like $6995 ($7000).
Now using my inflation calculator what we charged in 1980 would be about $3,000 today.
BUT we were using Formula Fords towed by beat up pickup trucks going to tracks that were desperate to book time in between races.
Now you are using a MUCH more expensive car - at tracks that are booked 90% with car club days and some things like insurance and healthcare for workers is gone through the roof.
I believe a Race Series weekend is $17,500 and that includes 3 sets of tires! Much different than in my day where one set of tires might go for a entire weekend - for 5 race groups.....
I wish them luck but their marketing plan is not the same as in years (many years) gone by. Maybe that plan does not work anymore.
ChrisZ
When I went through the three-day racing school in November of 1982 it seemed that the cost was $1100 using Crossle 35s. In 1983 I went to an advanced school at Sebring and we used Crossle 40s. I don't remember the cost of that one but Mike Rand was the chief instructor instead of Bruce McInnes that I had for the basic school at LRP. My other memory of going to Sebring was taking 6 hrs to fly there from Bridgeport CT with a pit stop at Myrtle Beach in my Bonanza F33A. I believe we took Carl Lane Lopez and Skip for a flight around the Sebring course at that time.
I went to the school in 1979 at Mid-Ohio and raced in the series in 1979 & 1980. As I recall, the cost for the 3 day school was about $1000 or so. I believe we used Crossle 32F's. The series was also very reasonably priced. I was living in Houston at the time and, including airfare ($200 RT on USAir), food and lodging, and practice/racing, each weekend was around $1000 - $1200, if you didn't overrev or damage the car. Instructors (for the school and the series) were Bruce McInnes, Carl Lane-Lopez, Bill Pruett, and Danny Sullivan. Danny was not real well known in the US at the time and the rumor was Skip hired him while trying to get him a professional ride.
Best regards,
Lowell
Gents;
A Skip Barber alumnus. Vic Elford, Jim Pace and Greg Borland were my Instructors, $1100, BIR long course. Sent both of our sons, $3000, RA, What is in a name? Reputation and name recognition. What’s it worth? Name and reputation.
My family paid for most of a 3-day Skip Barber school at Laguna, and I was hooked about 2 laps into the first lead-follow session on the track.
After that, I went back for a 2-day advanced.. ...then another... ...and was the oldest by far at their first Indycar Academy Shootout.