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Originally Posted by wparsons
When someone starts a track discussion with "I'm clueless", I aim them straight to basic car control.
The last place any instructor wants to be is in the passenger seat of a car in a high speed corner that started to lose the tail and should've been easily caught, but instead it spun badly from a bad reaction. All the theory in the world won't teach your right foot to stay on the gas when the tail steps out, you need to experience at slower speeds to learn the basics.
Can you safely drive a track with no prior experience, yes. Is it easier to learn basic car control at parking lot speeds than at track speeds, yes.
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As mentioned by others, AutoX is a super poor value proposition. Granted it will depend where you are to determine $$$. But for instance locally:
$55 (if you're already an SCCA member) gets you 8 ~45-50 second runs whilst spending all day on asphalt parking lot.
$100 gets you 5 20-minute sessions with an instructor nearly every session if you want. And I don't have to work the track half the day, I can sit in the shade between sessions, etc.
I'm mainly pointing out that I dislike this militant crap that goes on with the forums that YOU HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY.