So im trying to decide between some cars on what to own as a track car. Mainly between a miata and a wrx for canyon weekend rides, and once a month track events. Since this is the WRX area, l had some indepth questions about owning a WRX. Thanks in advance for your=)

- WRX is obviously a AWD car, now does switching the tires happen pretty often if you take the car out for weekend rides and once a month track events? Would you consider it an expensive part of owning a WRX?

- I am not to familiar with AWD cars and what to do if the car starts to understeer into spinning out, or oversteer. From what l heard, countersteering is no recommended because it will really throw the WRX into a wall. What is your take on it?

- The WRX is good on sticking to the ground, but does it really keep glued down more then a RWD car?

- Do you really have to drop it at 4k-5k rpm to have a good launch? If so doesnt that hurt the trany really bad?

- How is the overall maintenance for the WRX? From a starters point of view, l see the AWD as an expensive car to maintain due to switching all four tires, and or the clutch or any other parts.

- Any pet peeves with the WRX?




Again. thanks for looking =)

if ur going to be tracking & daily driving u will want 2 sets of wheels/tires this can be done on the cheap as there r plenty of used wheels around to beat up on track days just pair them with a good tire combo. this would be true for any car,the cost of constantly buying a tire that u used for both purposes would be insane

yes a wrx is far more stable than a RWD thats the advantage of AWD,grip by the truckload

launching a wrx takes finesse & u will need to learn the proper way to accomplish it the gest of it is sacrificing the clutch instead of the drive train & slipping the clutch.


maintaining the car is no different than any other obviously if u r doing some sort of track use u r decreasing the life of the car over all & increasing wear & tear on consumables that holds true for ANY car so thats somthing u will have to come to terms with in whatever car u choose u should be tread shaving & matching sets on a FWD,AWD & RWD for track use aswell,so to reiterate
buy dedicated track & DD wheel /tire sets.

no pet peeves.but u will have to make changes to the car no matter what to match the type of track use u want it for.

the wrx is a great clubman road race & autox car & wins world wide in these events consistently check scca website for results aswell as surfing nasioc for race results.