- you need a team, so instead of having to figure out all the stuff yourself (the race car, getting the car to the track, etc.) you'll have motivated people to help you
- because the goal is to still be running at the end of the 2nd day, drivers mostly look out for one another on track
- other teams are super helpful to newbs. Our neighbor in the pits welded up a spot on our cage, we ended up borrowing tools and safety equipment from 3-4 different teams, and we got lots of quality advice
- the rules and culture of the series help keep costs down as much as seems possible
+1 on other teams being super helpful. We coasted our car into the pits with a broken shifter clip (which lives right next to the surface-of-the-sun hot exhaust pipe). While we were trying to figure out what on earth to do, another team volunteered that they had just done theirs recently, dove in, yanked the old part, tossed the still burning hot part to a teammate who welded it back together, and slapped it back in the car, in under 10 minutes. It felt like a NASCAR pit stop.
Some great things about lemons:
- you need a team, so instead of having to figure out all the stuff yourself (the race car, getting the car to the track, etc.) you'll have motivated people to help you
- because the goal is to still be running at the end of the 2nd day, drivers mostly look out for one another on track
- other teams are super helpful to newbs. Our neighbor in the pits welded up a spot on our cage, we ended up borrowing tools and safety equipment from 3-4 different teams, and we got lots of quality advice
- the rules and culture of the series help keep costs down as much as seems possible