Just as a heads up to every one who wants to attend a track day or try a their hand at road racing check out http://www.tracksunlimited.net . they have a lot of good local events at a pretty reasonable cost and usually they have someone around that can give you a little instruction.

Here is one of the upcoming events-

July 10 @ Nashville Super speed way- this is going to be a mixture of several events, 1st is an open track day with four run groups w/ 15 min times, the 5th run group will be a 15 min run for drifting, and lastly at the close of the Day will be a time attack session. All these are tentative details, check out TU.net and find out the details.

August 20th at Roebling Road (Savannah Ga) Cost is $195 for the Friday event.
Map of the Track-

These events are a ton of fun and a good chance to meet a lot of really good people.