[JamesNoBrakes]

Awesome, this car does very well for it's weight and is generally a surprise under-dog that no one else expects to do well. It still prefers larger courses, but it surprises in how well it dosen't suck at turning and tighter stuff.

Drive it with all the nannys off by holding down the traction control button for 5s and seeing both the traction and stability control icons illuminated. Learn to drive it like this, it is the hands down fastest way around a course and you can also gradually "turn up" the speed, go slow the first time around the course and get it right. Other modes all pull power and while they don't seem slow, they are pulling power and costing seconds around a course, and a second or two is a giant amount of difference. Don't slam the throttle mid turn or coming out of a turn, FEATHER it and be careful, but that's your number one thing to really learn in this car and again, you won't be able to do it with nannys on.

Get the autoX GM eDiff flash. It opens the eDiff up more for AutoX ONLY in the mode described above.

The PS4S or 5S tire are great for initial autoX. They don't wear too fast where AutoX just ruins them, I ran them for a few seasons. Our local autoX started making semi-nat and nat class for people using less than 300 tread wear tires and less than 200, so using something like a PS4S was a great way to not get bumped into these more aggressive classes.

Roll those windows down and make sure you are looking hard left and right to see what is coming up. As Dave was saying, you gotta learn how to read the courses right and doing stuff at speed can seem so much more different than when you walked it. Stuff doesn't seem like it's in the same place and if you get a little out of sequence or wide, something will be a LOT further left or right than you anticipate and you gotta keep looking left and right to see and plan. Most of us roll down the windows for this fact, it encourages looking left and right with nothing in the way (tint, etc.).

A big big part of driving is not going "as fast as possible", but trying to balance out braking, acceleration, cornering, etc. If you try to go max acceleration, that means you gotta brake earlier, carrying more speed may exceed the grip available in the turn, put you wide, etc. There's the adage that "slow is fast" and there's a lot of truth to that. You want to be at the limit, but to be at the limit means being at the limit at the right times and being well below that at the other times to set yourself up for that.

In any case, the car is very well sorted and fun stock. Making a bunch of mods will kick you into far more competitive classes very fast. The car can still be fast with those mods, but it gets a lot more expensive quickly.

You'll see at AutoX there are plenty of cars that "talk the talk" but don't walk the walk for doing even just lap after lap of AutoX (let along a bigger track). This car though is well sorted for it and fun. The chassis is outstanding.