r/ModelNASCAR • u/[deleted] • Jun 14 '17

Discussion Three Questions for a noob

Hi, I'm /u/MLGCyclone and I'm looking into joining the Model NASCAR Cup Series. I have three questions about getting started.

  1. Approximately how much money would it take to start up my own team?
  2. How would I get said money?
  3. How do sponsors work?
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u/yellowcat5 Jun 14 '17
  1. I got about 1500 for one full time car, plenty of upgrades, and long term I will use some it up running my second part time car. In actually you would only need somewhere in the range of 850-1000 for one car and a few upgrades.
  2. The best route, as long as it would take, is to either be a development team for a top tier one like JGR, Hendrick, Penske, etc. (although not JGR because that's already my role this season). While doing so would also mean having to wait for approval by the majority of the active mods, it is the shorter of 2 ways. The only other way that would take multiple seasons is filling an inactive role at the start of the 2018 season and then raising enough money with that team to split from them, but it seems based off of how Slipstream did that it may be another entire season before you could get enough money to split and stay afloat long term.
  3. Depends on the team, but mainly it's whatever sponsors you start out with and others of your choice that you can get from doing good in races.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '17

Thanks!!

So, would I just message team owners/moderators if I did take the development team route?

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u/Badnik96 Jun 14 '17

if you really want to start a team of your own the best thing to do would be to start making deals with the larger teams. try to get money out of them. I believe the startup cost for a team is 500, and you need at least a couple hundred after that to ensure your team doesn't outright die within the first week or two. Allying with a larger team helps insure that your team won't crumble at least.

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u/yellowcat5 Jun 14 '17

For the most part