[Msquared]

It's always good to see another person join the autocross fray! You accomplished the important goals for your first event: getting your feet wet, improving your own time through the event, having fun, and (hopefully) starting to meet other competitors. That last bit becomes useful for my biggest advice to you: try to start getting right-seat rides with fast drivers to get a sense for how this should feel. This is often a challenge for newbies: what kind of forces should they be feeling and how do they know where the limits are? Seat time behind the wheel is obviously key, but IME you can really accelerate your own learning by seeing/feeling what others are doing. Watching others' runs from outside is not the same.