Official BK Meet. Mount Laurel. Tuesday evening.

[Ciotti]

Originally Posted by CleanNeon98

Those little "trial" track days don't count, as far as I know, they have a speed limit and no passing. A real road course day requires some kind of track licence IIRC. For one, I plan to go to Pocono for a day this summer and I will be pushing my car flat out just like I did at autocross when I went, and I still consider myself a novice so your argument is void.

Brave words but unfortunately they are just that, words. The SJ SCCA Autocross event organizers I hang with are instructors for those PDX and HPDE events, and they always talk about how there are two typed of people that show up to those events... There are the ones that think they are Michael Shumacher and are going to push their cars to the absolute limit but actually end up bashing them into a wall from snap oversteer or any other handling snafu due to a lack of experience and talent. And then there is everyone else that get out there and are scared ****less (which is a GOOD thing) and they start out nice and slow but graually get faster and faster building their experience up and not wrecking their car in the process.

And for the record, autocross is just as hard if not harder on a car, end of story. The only thing that a track day is harder on is the cooling system which is only an issue if you're making tons more power than the car was designed for and haven't upgraded the cooling system appropriately. In an autocross if you are any good you are viciously throwing your car back and forth 30 - 40 times or more which is twisting up the frame, maxing the suspension, and doing many other horrible things to the car much harder than at a road course where you are easing the car into and out of every corner.