There is nothing like professional instruction. On my first run I overheated my breaks and flew across the chicane. Second run, with professional instructor, wa

There is nothing like professional instruction. On my first run I overheated my breaks and flew across the chicane. Second run, with professional instructor, was chasing down cars with +150 hp. This was at the annual Shelby bash in Vegas - cost of entry is a Shelby, so pretty high. A few weeks ago I spent a Saturday with a Porsche-owning friend at a PCA autocross day. So much fun. These are people who own Porsches because they are genuinely great race cars. The fastest car was a beat-up-but-loved 914. Plenty of people had 924's and 944's. As has been said here, $1500 will get you a fun track car, and if its a Porsche you have access to a solid community of racers who are more than happy to instruct: in fact newbies have to have instructors.