Racing driver Abbie Eaton is the most recent visitor on sequence 10 of the award-winning podcast Fuelling Round.
Eaton has been racing professionally for greater than 20 years in competitions such because the British GT Championship and the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain.
The 33-year-old sat down with hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty to debate her profession up to now, what it takes to be a professional driver and the true value of motorsport in 2025.
Abbie Eaton and Jason Plato bemoan the rising value of karting for teenagers
Throughout her chat with the boys, Eaton and Plato gave their views on the rising value of entry into motorsport.
“It’s getting more durable and more durable and more durable,” Eaton revealed.
“To do a European season in karting for like a 12-year-old, I may race in Porsche Carrera Cup for a season (for the same worth). It’s completely bonkers.
“We’re speaking £200-300k being spent on go-karting. It’s simply bonkers. And the issue is I don’t suppose it’s ever going to alter now.
“I feel it’s simply on that (upwards) motion and it’s solely gonna worsen. I feel again within the day, motorsport all the time needed to succeed as a enterprise as a result of finally individuals want wages and paying.
“However I feel there was nonetheless fairly a giant ingredient that it was nonetheless a sport. Whereas now it’s getting increasingly that really it’s purely a enterprise, an leisure enterprise, and the game is simply getting form of much less and fewer, which is an actual disgrace.
“As I say it’s a runaway prepare now and it’s in that path.”
Plato interjected and added: “I’d agree, completely agree.
“It’s so costly and it’s completely value prohibitive for something aside from very, very rich households. Or households that have gotten nice connections with enterprise.
“In truth I’d say it’s most likely value prohibitive for even the rich households as a result of it’s simply phone numbers isn’t it?”
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