Yearly Track Costs (or how to spend $20K/yr on a $10K Porsche)

[Jittsl]

Well the break down is;
TOTAL $25,997.27

Accommodation $2,837.48 (avg approx $100 per night)
Fuel (travel and at track) $3,894.63 (avg distance to event = 600+miles)
Brakes and tires $5994.41 (6 sets tires & 4 sets brake pads)
Other parts, updates and accessories $6473.66 (as mentioned largely 1 time exp)
Safety equiptment $1312.61 (new helmet and suit)
Service and repairs $816.75 (paint repairs and alignments)
Entrance and Licence fees $4667.73

Obviously, some of this is non-repeating (IE I only need a new helmet every 5 years), I choose to travel a long way to events and that costs me and, as I stated, I probably spent more on tires than I needed to. Because of this I have budgeted $20,000 for 6 events for next year which will still be over $3,000 per event. That, of course, will go to hell if I crash, drop a gearbox or blow a motor (all of which are always possible in a race car). I would be delighted if I could drop that number to $1500 (and so would my wife) but I can't see it in the near future. Any advice happily accepted.

Also of note is that my numbers have a lot of similarity to the original post. If you added my onetime charges and travel costs to his total you would end up in a very similar place.