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Originally Posted by renfield90
You really shouldn't track a car unless you are mentally (and financially) prepared to wad up the car in a tire barrier. I speak from experience as I blew the motor on my last car on Firebird Main. Have you ever had your brakes fail on you? I have twice, both on the street and at an autocross. Both times I had enough margin to save the car. On the track, there is zero margin - particularly in a complex such as turns 2-3 on Firebird (Bondurant?) West. I've seen professional drivers eat it there...
That's to say nothing of equipment failures or bad decisions of the drivers around you. There's a reason DE2 scares me more than DE3.
That said I'll track the FR-S once or twice if I get around to buying good street tires for it and good pads. The car needs a lot of other, higher priority things to prepare for nats in September.
Go talk to Robert Rose on his opinion of autocross, he was the DE3 leader last time I ran with NASA. Robert understands the value that autocross can add to you as a driver, any other road course naysayers are full of it.
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Agreed with all of your points. Again I have no intention to just jump on a track. I already said that if I were to start anywhere it would be autocross. Even at that level its still scary to drive a daily driver. Anything can happen. I was just posting the difference from both as a PASSENGER. It was an awesome experience to go through both with autocross and track. I would absolutely ride with Mook again if I get the chance. The Autocross was a blast too. (Ninjin, I still have to get a ride from you, its been awhile)
Sometimes you just have to take risks. A very good example, a street bike. I actually just had this conversation at work today. My coworker won't ride because he is too afraid of what other people will do. I am the opposite, I love riding and I won't let someone on the street ruin my fun. You just have to pay attention and be smart. Thats all you can do, you can't control the world. Lots of times bike riders will go down and never get up again and that is really unfortunate. I hope that never ever happens to me or anyone. I could just sell the bike and get something else (maybe more mods for my car
) but I will never do that because I love to ride and I feel its a great time. Its a risk, just like taking your car to the track or autocross for that matter. Same concept. Another risk. I hate to be cliche but you only live once.
Me personally, it's my daily driver and I can't afford another car at this point so I won't be taking my car to the track, if I do anything it will be autocross and I am not sure if it will be on a crazy competitive scale just for fun.
At least for now
Ask me in another year...