# WNY SCCA 2008 Autox Season and \*\*\*NOVICE SCHOOL\*\*\*
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550 "2008-03-06T11:34:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@cky89](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cky89)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/101 "2008-04-18T22:24:43Z")
my car may be competitive in it, but what about me? I’ve never done any type of racing like this before.
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/102 "2008-04-18T22:30:14Z")
That’s what the novice school is about. And you won’t ever get any better if you don’t try. If you want to register for novice school, email me.
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### Author:  [@cky89](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cky89)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/103 "2008-04-18T22:33:59Z")
PM’d
Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@buffalove](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/buffalove)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/104 "2008-04-18T23:09:11Z")
If i get my tires in time i am in for novice school, which i doubt…
but other wise i got a new camera and a new lens, so i should be up there to take pics.
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### Author:  [@cky89](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cky89)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/105 "2008-04-18T23:15:35Z")
See you all there 🙂
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### Author:  [@Silver](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/106 "2008-04-18T23:37:10Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> what mods do you have? Don’t worry about classing, just go have fun and learn how to drive.
+1 Chances are no matter what class you are in, you aren’t going to win anyway. Certainly not trying to knock you, but I don’t know anyone who has gone to their first event and won their class (unless there were no other participants). I’m sure it happens, but not often.
Fuck, going on my fourth year and I’m still lucky to get second to last _sigh_… blasted AS.
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### Author:  [@cky89](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cky89)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/107 "2008-04-18T23:39:46Z")
> [@Silver](#):
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> +1 Chances are no matter what class you are in, you aren’t going to win anyway. Certainly not trying to knock you, but I don’t know anyone who has gone to their first event and won their class (unless there were no other participants). I’m sure it happens, but not often.
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> Fuck, going on my fourth year and I’m still lucky to get second to last _sigh_… blasted AS.
Oh I don’t care one bit whether I win or not, I just don’t understand how the whole thing works and I’d just rather have fun rather than be frustrated the whole time.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/108 "2008-04-19T05:03:37Z")
The class you’ll be in is “novice.” Your times will be compared against all the other n00bs. Next year you will be in a real class.
Don’t worry about it. You won’t be frustrated. I always just wound up racing myself. My goal for every day was to get better with each run, and by about halfway through I’d have a time goal for my final run.
FWIW I think I was 15 seconds behind FTD (Fastest Time of the Day) at my first event and I had a fucking blast.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/109 "2008-04-19T07:29:55Z")
yeah, my first time out I was just trying to do better than my previous times. I didn’t do half-bad either. I was faster than some other people that were there, so I was happy.
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### Author:  [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/110 "2008-04-19T08:07:19Z")
> [@cky89](#):
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> Oh I don’t care one bit whether I win or not, I just don’t understand how the whole thing works and I’d just rather have fun rather than be frustrated the whole time.
Yea… don’t sweat winning right away, but you will care eventually. Just go out, have fun and try and improve on your own times.
I didn’t really get competitive until my 3rd year really, its all about getting to know the people in your class and having fun with it. Don’ be bashful about hitting some cones, everyone does it, no one cares (unless you rack up 10 or so in a single run lol).
Also don’t worry about looking slow or bad or w/e, everyone else in concerned about themselves and their times they aren’t watching you 🙂
edit: DEF go to novice school you will get more seat time than 3 events, and lots of instructor time.
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### Author:  [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/111 "2008-04-19T10:16:40Z")
I can’t wait!
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/112 "2008-04-19T15:08:58Z")
Last call for novice school registration - I am going out for dinner, and when I get back, I’m closing registration.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/113 "2008-04-19T18:35:23Z")
how many people are registered jim?
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/114 "2008-04-19T18:42:30Z")
30ish
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### Author:  [@speedracer329](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/speedracer329)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/115 "2008-04-19T21:30:19Z")
charging my camera right now… good luck to everyone at novice school for a fun successful day 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/116 "2008-04-20T13:37:09Z")
good times, i learned a lot
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### Author:  [@Nivek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nivek)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/117 "2008-04-20T14:05:45Z")
it was great today and a good turn out!
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/118 "2008-04-20T14:18:14Z")
A good time indeed, perfect weather.
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### Author:  [@Silver](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/119 "2008-04-20T14:34:13Z")
Had a blast, as usual. The novices did great, I was very impressed with (almost) everyone. Very few people tried showboating, and even those people realized how much they had to learn very quickly.
Thanks to everyone that I worked with 🙂
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### Author:  [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wny-scca-2008-autox-season-and-novice-school/44550/120 "2008-04-20T14:39:57Z")
I had a great time! Learned a good bit. My times I felt were pretty good considering I had blown struts. :lol:
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