{"id":371,"date":"2007-01-07T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T18:29:03","slug":"cost-zilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Cost-zilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have asked me how much it actually cost to do WRGB.  I don&#8217;t think it would be possible to do it any cheaper than we did, unless you lived in the area; the B&amp;B was the biggest single cost aside from the entry fee!  Anyway, I was asked by Paul Stevenson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrcresults.com\">WRC Results Magazine<\/a> to do a short piece on it, as he will be covering it in the next issue, along with the costs of a WRC team.  Should be interesting!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are my costs &#8211; firstly to be in a position to enter the event &#8211; car preparation, safety gear, and the events to get Paul&#8217;s licence.<\/p>\n<p>Car preparation for FIA safety equipment: \u00a31000<br \/>\nCompetitor Safety equipment: \u00a3300<br \/>\nCar preparation for event \u00a31500<br \/>\nEvents to be ready to get Navigator to International \u00a32000<br \/>\nRecce Car \u00a3350<br \/>\n<strong>Pre-event cost: \u00a35150<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Licence upgrade for driver \u00a3122<br \/>\nLicence upgrade for Navigator \u00a3142<br \/>\nRecce Car Preparation \u00a3100<br \/>\nService Van and trailer \u00a3200<br \/>\nService Van fuel \u00a3100<br \/>\nRecce Car fuel \u00a3200<br \/>\nRally Car Fuel \u00a3165<br \/>\nRally Car Tyres\t(8 Kumho R700) \u00a3282<br \/>\nB&amp;B \u00a3577<br \/>\nFood \u00a3100<br \/>\nService Tent \u00a393<br \/>\nRally and Recce Car Insurance \u00a392<br \/>\nEntry Fee \u00a31445<br \/>\nWRC Tracker &#8220;damage&#8221; (their poxy aerial fell apart) \u00a330<br \/>\nDamage to car: \tSteering Rack \u00a345<br \/>\nFront Subframe: \u00a3122<br \/>\nWheels: \u00a344<br \/>\nAlternator \u00a365<br \/>\nIn Car Camera \u00a340<br \/>\n<strong>Wales Rally GB Total \u00a33964<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I regret it?  Do I b******s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have asked me how much it actually cost to do WRGB. I don&#8217;t think it would be possible to do it any cheaper than we did, unless you lived in the area; the B&amp;B was the biggest single cost aside from the entry fee! Anyway, I was asked by Paul Stevenson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}