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There was an old Top Gear episode with a race in a Nordic country with an interesting take on a price cap
the price enforcement was that anybody could buy your car (for no more than the price cap) after the race.
So I think you technically could enter the race with a brand new tricked out rally car...but anyone could buy it for $500/$1000/whatever.
Yep, in the 80/90 there were a lot, I went to one where a friends bigger brother ran his first race. His tuned up volvo 142 would not only had been bought but also won if he hadn't gone over the top in the finishing tour and went so fast he just flew off the tracks on a little hill.
Fun stuff.
This is actually how Amateur Motocross in the US works. It's really only for the upper echelon, sponsored riders on pro-affiliated teams as basically a development rider. But you sign a thing saying anyone can purchase the bike for 2x MSRP, so there is less incentive to dump money into an amateur bike and helps keep them closer to what a normal person can afford. Someone can feasibly get a $45k bike for under $20k. It's a nice system, you can spend yourself into oblivion if you like, but someone can take you to the cleaners in that investment later.
Lemons has this rule as well. I think it's been done once or twice.
yeah folk race! the winners are all put up for auction at the end.
you would also not want to enter a brand new rally car in a folk race... it's full-contact racing on a track that's basically all mud.