if you're respectful of the other people at SCCA events, you can get a few runs for a lot cheaper, espically if you can make it to the Test'n'Tune.
If you show up like an asshat, and just go plowing through cones and doing burnouts towards course workers, they're gonna get displeased.

Normal Novice Schools or Test'n'Tunes generally have a couple long sweepers that are good at learning feint-into and understeer-to-power-over transitions, as well as some tight boxes to work at continual drift execution (fishtail through a chicago box), then a really tight 180 to kick it loose like a hooligan... (And all for $50 bones). Laugh with the serious SCCA people and try not to be a coneslayer and you'll have a great time... but I will warn you, they aren't a big fan of drifters, in the same way they look down their conedodging nose at everyone else.