It only gets exspensive if you want all the good stuff and use it a lot. Stuff breaks he more you play with it. Also, racing makes the hobby very much more exspensive, since you are always having to buy the good parts to be near the front, and stuff is always breaking. I used to race at a grassroots level when I was a kid, and it was hard to get my parents to keep my set-up going.


Some guys spend an excess of $10,000 to set-up and race on a local level, and probably spend another $2,000-$5,000 a year to keep racing. Others may only spend $1,500 to set-up, and another $500-$1,000 to race a season just to get out there and have some fun.