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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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Very good stuff, I neglected to point out the mental side of being prepared to write off your car. If you are afraid, that fear can also lead to mistakes.