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Originally Posted by RigaTony1982
I bet the percentage of BMW and Porsche owners who take their cars to the track is in the single digits or teens.
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My guess is that your numbers are very low. I read somewhere that 80% of Porsche owners track their cars. I doubt the same could be said for BMW owners, but I would guess it is much higher than just the teens. Most people who take advantage of track days don't usually talk about it outside of their group of track buddies.
I found a post by John Browne which seems to be a reasonable guesstimate. It is for all car owners. I don't know the percentage of BMW/Porsche owners who are in that group, so your guess is as good as mine.
Assume 2 race tracks per state (some have more, some have less), or 100 total. Assume on average 9 months suitable weather for track days. Assume 2-5 track days per month (I'm counting club days, open HPDE days, but not test 'n' tune days which are for race cars and licensed race drivers only). So for a ballpark you can have 200- 500 track days per month X 9 months per year, or 1800-4500 track days per year, with guess 50 people attending average per each. If you further assume the average driver attends 2 track events per year, then you have a VERY ROUGH ESTIMATE of between 45k and 112,000 people driving at least one track day per year. Split the diff and you get about 75k.
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