my .02
i have autoxed once! once!
i have 10,000 + laps of door to door competition under my belt, well some of it may hang over now
i do want to get into road racing,a s i have the same issue of time and money vs seat time. i raced fiat 124 coupes in nascars weekly racing series. won 2 championships and 52 races, never finished out of the top 5 in points. it was fun. i enjoyed building the cars as much as driving them. the fun was in the engineering, what i could get away with. and beating people with much larger budgets, and left them scratching their heads. after my tenure with my fiats i graduated to late models (purpose built tube frame cars 650hp and 2500 lbs, similar to gt1 road race cars) ran very well despite my lack of budget, i was spending 2500 a race to win 500. but the people i was racing against were spending 20,000 a week to win 2500. but it was winning money. but the seat time was incredible as most cases the races lasted 2 hours, and i had 2, 1 hour practice sessions each weekend and thursday evenings for 2 hours. burnt up tires (largest cost).
left that for a crew chief position on a ARCA team for a couple of years. then dabbled in racing again on and off. but in todays economy racing is not on the front burner as expendable income is not there as it was in the past.
now im very interested in road racing 2-3 times a year, have a scorpion im looking into building for NASA, or maybe just run one of my late models, still have 4. but the thing that im looking into is the hours of track time and the door to door competition, i dont have to win, i just want to go fast and have fun for a few hours at a time. thats the reason drag racing never worked for me. i dont want to race for 10 seconds at a time.