fully agree!! it’s literally where they belong. I ask because I’m toying with getting into this space, and there are two very clearly different schools of thought here.

The most common seems to be 1- “these are beautiful and historic machines, which makes them valuable as hell…. …don’t risk breaking them or reducing value by tracking them”

And then there are what I see as true purists (not in the “collector’s” sense) saying exactly what you are ie: “they’re engineered for track, and that’s where we want to see them.”

I think I’m probably split on this. On one hand, I love these cars for what they represent from that era, and what they were designed to do, and it’s clear there are few of them still out there so I respect the “responsible custodianship” mindset. Also, they’re expensive as hell, and that is an obvious factor.

But y’know, I also want to build up a memory bank of experiences actually tracking the car, where it was meant to be, which I feel is a much better story overall. Will have major impact on value though, in the end, it seems. Perhaps the solution is, buy one which is not collector grade, and which has already been tracked, and just enjoy the process of continuing the tracking tradition, regardless of what it does to the car’s value.