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Originally Posted by swarb
1. Don't take a car to the track if you aren't ready to walk away from it($$$). You may crash and total it and most if not all insurance companies won't cover it.
3. Light prep, mostly safety check and brake pads(NOT STOCK) and brake fluid, helmet, tool set, jack and maybe extra wheels/tires.
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I was about to refute your first point then I remembered that out of 4 track days I've been to I've seen 3x cars balled up and unable to drive home (and 2x at an AutoX even) so yeah... have a contingency for getting to work on Monday.
It took me about 1.9 track days to exceed my stock pads and fluid (~200 minutes of track time), unless OP is comfortable braking hard enough to engage ABS before he even shows up I'd say that upgrading pads and fluid is unnecessary for a complete newb for his first day. It should without a doubt be budgeted for subsequent events though.
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Originally Posted by donoman
The reason I don't suggest Auto-X is because you don't get much seat time. I think a skid-pad is more useful than Auto-X... HOD does over Skidpad at some of it's HPDE's. For me, Auto-X is a big waste of money and, more importantly, TIME.
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A competitive AutoX day is definitely a poor proposition in terms of education and gaining experience, you pretty much spend the whole day out in the middle of nowhere for 5-10 minutes of seat time.
An AutoX school however is probably the best place to start from nothing, the local BMW CCA chapter is hosting one where they're advertising 3 hours of seat time with one-on-one instruction. It sold out in 12 hours though.
Just to see if there was anything in OP's area I searched
motorsportreg.com and came across an Audi event, $500 plus membership to their organization is pretty decent for 2 days of solid instruction, but you'll need a hotel unless you're insane, and I have no idea if it'll be as good as they advertise:
https://www.motorsportreg.com/index....6#.VZr-aEZmrTQ