Autocross for noobs?
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Autocross for noobs?
So a family friend bought me tickets to drive a Ferrari on an autocross circuit.
Beyond driving a really nice car I really enjoyed the autocross course. I am used to driving up in the mountain twisties but obviously being a public road (with cliffs) its a very different experience.
I don't want to get into competition yet and I'm not sure how my lightly modified car would classify. I'd really just like to try it out and improve my own abilities really.
Is there such a thing? I'm in the SF Bay Area around San Jose specifically.
Beyond driving a really nice car I really enjoyed the autocross course. I am used to driving up in the mountain twisties but obviously being a public road (with cliffs) its a very different experience.
I don't want to get into competition yet and I'm not sure how my lightly modified car would classify. I'd really just like to try it out and improve my own abilities really.
Is there such a thing? I'm in the SF Bay Area around San Jose specifically.
I'm not familiar with California clubs but all of the clubs I have driven with on the east coast allow veteran drivers to ride with and/or drive new drivers on test & tune days.
Some clubs even offer novice schools with instructors. Our club, Gulfcoast Autocrossers, is one of them.
There are also stand-alone schools such as Solo-Pro and Evolution that are hosted at different venues around the country.
I have no direct experience with the evo schoo,l but I have heard nothing but good things from people who have attended.
We host the Solo Pro school regularly though. Tim Aro runs the Solo Pro school. He, and the instructors that work with him, are top-notch and very helpful. The stand-alone schools offer a LOT of seat time. (Some say it's like getting a year's worth of driving in a single weekend.)
http://soloprodrivingschool.com/
http://evoschool.com/
Some clubs even offer novice schools with instructors. Our club, Gulfcoast Autocrossers, is one of them.
There are also stand-alone schools such as Solo-Pro and Evolution that are hosted at different venues around the country.
I have no direct experience with the evo schoo,l but I have heard nothing but good things from people who have attended.
We host the Solo Pro school regularly though. Tim Aro runs the Solo Pro school. He, and the instructors that work with him, are top-notch and very helpful. The stand-alone schools offer a LOT of seat time. (Some say it's like getting a year's worth of driving in a single weekend.)
http://soloprodrivingschool.com/
http://evoschool.com/
Last edited by Z1NONLY; Mar 3, 2014 at 04:05 PM.
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Any scca auto x will suite you perfectly just go online and see where your car falls in class wise. If your car has more than a single anti roll bar and exhaust from behind the cats than you are probably out of a stock class putting you in stu. Where you wont be extremely compettitive but the other guys in your class should be fairly consistant so judge your progression off of where your times fall in comparision. But the best thing is you dont need a to do anything to your car to just get out there and do it. Hell here in vegas we have a guy finishing in the top 40 out of 110 in a bone stock lexus ct250 hybrid in overall raw times.
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