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Originally Posted by nyfries

Just did my second autox day. My progression is not as good as the first day. On my first day my worst ran and best ran was 13 sec apart lol. This time they are only a bit more than 1 sec apart. I kind of feel like the stock tire doesn't have enough grip but I also realize that it's probably better to learn on the stock crappy tire. I can't help but noticing that other novice frs driver was much faster than me by 3-5 second other only mods being better tire. At what point would one be ready to step up to better tires? If I were to get better tires would I ran better time even though I'm making mistakes?

I would stick with the current tires if I were you. Yes, stickier tires would improve your time but it will make it all that much harder to get good (because you can look ok doing things that are sucking speed). Until you are in the same time range as most people at the event, you probably shouldn't bother with changing anything with the car outside of normal maintenance. You could spend many thousands of dollars on your car and still not get close to the other people at the event until you get your own skills up to par (Assuming you are talking about a sub one minute course, five seconds is a huge difference).

Also, being consistent in your time is a great thing; you can start to see how changing one piece changes your time overall.