What is it you want to do ? What sort of facilities do you have (ie can you prepare your own car, get it to events, fix it, rely on having a service crew etc).

The racing roundy roundy bit is the easy bit to sort out, having the back-up and friends to support you is more difficult.

There is a whole host of things you could do with a Fiesta, Nova etc.

I'd be more keen to look at rallycross if I was to start all over again.

Part tarmac part loose, stock championships, regular meetings, and entry fees of around £210 per event make it attractive.

However if your car is standard you wont win a thing and will get dissapointed and frustrated very quickly. No mater what championship you enter there will always be the money men who have bigger and better budgets than you, they know the cheats and will use them until they get caught.

Budget approx £10k for your first season in whatever you do (that includes the car)