[dalyduo]

I'll second everything Peter says and add that the luxury of not having to worry about car prep and having spare cars you can jump into if you crash or the one you're driving breaks is a huge benefit to your learning curve as a driver. Because all the cars are the same you'll also really be testing your driving skills against other drivers. That's not easy to do in other series where often it's the deepest pockets that can afford the trick motor or demon upgrades that tip the scales of class equality. You can't buy a faster car at Skip Barber... They're all the same motors, shocks, tires and transmissions.

Can't imagine a better way to learn car control and race craft than at least a couple of seasons with Skip Barber. The open wheel cars are difficult to drive well but when you learn to drive them well you can get into almost any other type of race car and adapt quickly and do well. If you move on to another series, those years with Skip Barber suddenly pay dividends big time. Ask Spencer Pumpelly or Juan Pablo Montoya and Dr. Jim Lowe or the hundreds of pros and amateurs who started with SB. It's the best basic training there is for everything else.