Street vs Track tires for first DE event? Options

[stugray]

I will be taking my first full track drivers ed this year and I have been debating with a "seasoned driver" about whether I should run street tires vs full race slicks.

The experienced driver is adamant that I go straight to the racing tires and learn that way.

I have a differing opinion where I believe that learning on the street tires would have numerous advantages such as:
The car will be a little more loose presenting sliding and brake lockup sooner so that the "excursions" will be less extreme.

The street tires will give more feedback as they begin to loose grip than the track tires (street tires will begin to make noise before the track tires)

The street tires will loose grip more gradually giving the new driver more time to compensate for loss of traction.

The street tires will loose grip at slower speeds giving the feel of recovering from loss of control at safer speeds.

I feel that learning to drive the car on street tires and progressing to stickier tires is not only safer, but cheaper in the long run.

Opinions?

[brant]

I think you will be fine on street tires for even 1 or 2 events
lots of other things to learn first...

but I would steer you away from spending $600 on street tires and then another 800 on Toyo's...

once you are a couple of weekends into it... you won't go back to the street tires... really even for rain...

so if you can borrow, or find street tires for 2 events great
but if your buying everything brand new... use the toyo's for a whole season and skip the street tires

I unfortunatelty don't have any 205 stock.. or I'd loan it to you
since you sound like you are going to end up on hoosiers.. its a slightly tougher call...

their life cycle is shorter..
but I'd hate to see you buy 2 sets of tires up front
any chance you can find 15inch street tires to borrow for 2 events?
it would be worth the mounting and balancing probably versus buying them brand new

if it was down to buying 2 sets of tires up front... I'd skip the street
I'd go toyo and hoosiers

I run unshaved toyo's for rains.
(actually I run hoosiers for rains until it gets really deep... then switch to RA1's)

and we have very very few rain races. Most of the rain driving I've done has been in CVAR, where the humidity is higher

brant