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I personally know several guys that teach at Skip Barber.
The biggest question and misconception in racing is "How to get into the Sport". Correct, most teams will not even look at a driver w/o a SCCA liscense, or at least some Driving School. Track time at most SCCA events will help you tune your skill, and give good seat time.
Biggest Misconception of all... Just because you have a SCCA liscence, doesn't meant your in with the big dogs!!
There is 2 types of Drivers:
Those who pay to play!
Those who get paid to play!
At some point after you have a good record, then you can present your skill to teams and hope to be taken in.
Easiest was to get in... Build your own Car & Drive it, and have friends as your Pit Crew. You will need an SCCA liscense and you will need to follow the rules and specs.
Best way to get respect on the track is to finnish. Finnish the race, dont try to be on the podium. Remeber you can kill someone very easy on the track. Once you learn how to give other drivers respect and rights to the line, then you will be respected. If someone passes you and you feel they are at about the same skill on the track as you... dont get pissed... dont follow... later on you can always get them back.
Racing SCCA events like AutoX is way different than having 20-30 people on the track with you. Almost every Pro driver, when they started their first race event, had the freeze take effect... reallity is scarier than you think, but once you get past the freeze, and you realize you have to commit... it will never happen again (on the track at least)!!
Words of Wisdom... This is the same advise you will get from anyone in the sport... In Fact, this is exactly what Daddy Beam from Skip Barber tells anyone interested in the Sport.
enjoy...
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