Questions about scca events..

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by AlanLGuy

You get those types every now and then, but I can tell you that the guys who are the quickest, who consistently finish at the tops of their class are almost always the friendly ones who talk with everyone and who don't stick with one group.

The guys who refuse to interact with others outside a small friend circle usually run midpack at best. The best drivers learned from others and they are usually more than willing to pass that knowledge on as well.

This has been my experience. These are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. It's kind of funny seeing people who are supposed to be competing directly with each other so eager to help each other out, whether it's a tip on where they're picking up time on the course or just letting you borrow their spray bottle to cool off your tires. It's the ones who aren't enjoying themselves who are standoffish. Even the people who come and run the slowest times of the day but are just there to have fun are very helpful people.

[Miniata]

I've been autocrossing for 13 years now, and if it ever stops being fun or friendly, I'll stop going out. I spend way too much money for tires and parts, I have to get up a lot earlier than I like to autocross, and end up standing around for 8 hours in the hot sun (or sometimes cold and rain) to spend maybe 5 minutes driving on course, if we didn't have a great bunch of guys to run with in our region (and surrounding regions), I wouldn't do it.

[Asterisked Accolade]

Originally Posted by StarsGarrador

I'll just start off by saying I'm coming from a 2.5 03 Altima. I have driven my buddies 240s a couple times but never really drove them good. I have been to a few scca events with my friends but only to take pictures. I'm wanting to get into this now that I'll have my BRZ. A few of my concerns are; I know how my friends were to people that didn't really know anything about Auto-X, Kind of embarrassing for me to ask for help, and the inevitable "why did you get the brz then"" he doesn't deserve that car" etc etc.

Any tips on getting started in it or the generally the best way to avoid things like this? (I'd ask my friends for pointers but all are in basic now or moved away, also this car is a surprise only a handful know about it)

Thanks in advance, I also looked on their site to see if I could see a school day but never found one.

Those kind of people make this hobby so much more unpleasant than it has to be.

[FRkane]

Your friends must just know everything about everything without asking questions. Lucky bastards! Surely someone answered their questions.

[StarsGarrador]

I appreciate all the info, my first event will be this Saturday at the scion first drive event should be some great pointers and people to help since its just the frs and I'm sure they will have someone riding with me and it's open to anyone

[BlaineWasHere]

Just go out and tell everyone you see it's your first time!

About half of them will jump at the opportunity to help you!

[StarsGarrador]

I never told anyone it was my first time.. xD I wanted to see how it was. We didn't get a walk around but after I reviewed my video and ask one of the guys running it a few questions my time was 2-3 times better. Appreciate all the info! Really helps the ease of my first lap.