[RallySnake]

I agree with all the comments here and have used them all. However, I personally learned the most from running SCCA Solo 2's. Every time I ran, I had to analyze what was wrong and how to fix it. I had to work out a lot of problems with my car to get it to handle at all. I tried a bunch of junkyard anti-swaybars on the front and rear until the car was balanced enough so I could maintain 4 wheel drifts. I burned up a lot of Mickey Thompson street tires before finally buying a set of Hoosier race tires. After I got the car balanced with those, I won a Regional Championship event in B/SP. After a couple of years of Solo2's, I got a little tired of driving hours to and from the tracks to make a few 1 minute runs. So, I started running rallies. Now two of us can enjoy the car for hours instead of minutes and it's just as competitive. The tires last for years instead of months, too.

However, whenever I buy a new type of tire, I go back and run a Solo 2 to learn their limits and to work with tire pressures to get neutral handling.

RS