I am sure you get this type of post often, but I would be interested in getting some opinions.
My wife has given me the green light to buy a new race car, she has pretty much told me to buy whatever would make me happy.
Thus I would be interested in getting a qualified opinion on what my next step should be. My objective is to race and have fun.
Currently I road race karts and I love it. Low maint, great competition etc, in my first year racing I won a "Duffy" and a IKF region championship. I would not give up kart racing, this would add to that. In addition I race offshore powerboats with Pacific Offshore, SBI, APBA, OSS, etc. My objective would be to race on a regional level as I really do not like to travel. In the event I was to qualify for a big race like the run-offs, I would go and do what was needed to put a car around me that could win (just the type of person I am, somebody has to win, why not me?)
While I am 41, I have enjoyed racing success in boats, karts, dirt stock cars, sprint cars and midgets. Thus strapping in is nothing new, although formula racing would be.
Please be brutal in your assessment of what I would be qualified to race, as a first step into formula cars.
The classes that I seem to like are FM, F1000 and F500. My other option is to get a new Lotus 2-11 and run the series Lotus is currently working on for 2008, but I think formula cars might be a good place to go next (then maybe the Lotus).
Thank you in advance for your opinions.