"Pointless if you can't control it"

[racepar1]

It is best to learn with a lower horsepower car whether you are drifting, autocrossing, or road racing. This is because it forces you to hone important skills that can be somewhat supplemented with horsepower. With a low horsepower car driving technique is very important. Understanding and executing actual racing lines, smooth precise inputs, braking point, entry speed, apex, etc... are all magnified in importance due to the low power. If you go off-line in a low powered car, you're fucked. If you go off-line in a high powered car you can recover easier. Basically learning on a lower powered car teaches you to be more precise and disciplined with your driving. When you combine that kind of technique with a lot of horsepower then you have something special...