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Originally Posted by insite
autocross is fine, but you will get like five minutes of driving around some cones with minimal instruction. with DE, you'll get around four hours of driving on a race course with classroom and in-vehicle instruction. i'll let you guess which will improve your driving more.
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This is not true for a lot of regions. In ours, a typical course is about a minute and a half, and I've gotten up to 12 runs before. Plus I go every weekend, sometimes twice in a weekend. Also, if you go to an SCCA event, you are required to have an instructor for your first 2 runs, and at least in the 4 different regions I've been to, they are always more than willing to help you out after that. I think it's unfair to say you get minimal instruction when it all varies on your region and how open you are to asking people for help.
Just freaking go to an autocross ONCE to see what it's like and get a feel for things. It's going to be all of $50 TOPS and then you can decide if you think you are ready to jump to a track event or not. To me it would be better to spend $50 to realize that autcross didn't help me, then to spend a couple hundred plus to find out I wish I had had a better feel for my car before a track day. What can it hurt?