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Originally Posted by Hotrodz
I think it's all relative...some are just better drivers out the box than others and if you were given a GTR would you not learn on it regardless of your time!
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I see talent variations in new drivers all the time. Some people do have more natural aptitude for this than others, just as some people, who are naturally coordinated, pick up typing faster. Learning to type still trumps hunting and pecking. -Even really good hunting and pecking.
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I'm building my car first and learning to drive it and how it reacts to the upgrades, then I will hit the track and get some instruction. Different stokes for different folks and in the end I agree with cossie...man I wished I lived closer to a track!!!!
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Seat time can make the mod path obvious. Once you get consistent, you can zero in on the things holding you back.
My first mod was almost a cat-back exhaust. I had ~1k burning a hole in my pocket after a about 6 2-day events and set my sights on a shiny new Nismo exhaust. My wife (GF at the time) asked me what it would do and I told her it would give me about 5-10 more HP. Then she asked me how much time that would shave off of my runs...."Well", I said, "maybe a tenth of a second on a 60-second course." Then she asked how much time I would pick up with an LSD (I was running an open diff at the time)....That would give me at least half a second and maybe even a full second on some courses.
The Quaife LSD was my first mod, ~10 years ago, and the exhaust was one of my very last mods, just last year. (Borla TD)
I'm not saying that there's anything "wrong" with modding your car. I'm just saying that modding the driver will net you more speed than modding the car.