It sure don't make anything sitting in the shop, and you might just get lucky, now if you spend more on the trip, then closer to home might be the better option, when I raced TQ's, I made more, I felt, even before the purses got bigger, than driving all over the country running go-karts for nothing, zero, zip, now I have an attic full of trophy's, and not a dime in compensation, but we were having fun, and we were, I've been all over the country running karts on my own nickels, been to places no one would go on purpose, but I've seen things that those people haven't, and we had fun, much better than a cruise, to me and my wife, money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of what's in second place! I guess you could say the kart racing was part of the learning curve, but maybe I stayed with it too long, the TQ was a blast, and as I was able to do all my own work, and some for others, and almost every time we went to the track, I was usually able to put some $$$$ in my blue jeans, so it wasn't all bad. Like Tim says, you get to rent the track for cheap.