I’m late to the thread but the main reason I haven’t been to enthuastic about Autox this year is the ridiclous amount of downtime. At the first RIT event this year my first run was at 11:15am, my second run was at 1pm.
I don’t mind the whole $40 or 4 minutes so much, but when I have to wait almost 2 hours in between runs it ruins my day. I spend 40-60seconds on course, then don’t get to run it for so long that I never get a chance to learn it.
Open track days are fun if you want to amuse yourself, but without an instructor do you really learn much…?