>>28532856
>you can absolutely get racing for under $1k if you go to a local banger track,
no you absolutely can't
the cost of a single race including transport lodging and materiel in even the smallest leagues is 10 grand. a weekend of autocross is close to that too. a kart will cost about a grand PER EVENT.
no real life racing offers what simracing can, sorry, no amount of larping and pretending there are free shitboxes anymore
>and there are plenty of shitboxes in most countries under $1k that are actually fun to drive
if you actually look at used listings the cars in running condition for that kind of money are not fun, the cars that are fun don't run, and the cars that run and are fun are NOT cheap anymore thanks to ccf, bat and other jalopnik type car collector community shitholes driving the prices up on anything that can hold over a g