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?

[carr914]

I do all DEs on Street Tires (& I've done hundreds of DE's). It's a Driving Event not a Race!

the truth is... I've never known anyone that goes wheel to wheel to go back to DE on a regular basis. you might be that person... or someone else is.. but that is a rare trait.

the wheel to wheel racing really is that much better.

I'm one of those guys! Don't get me wrong, I still love Wheel to Wheel (I'm in a 1 Hour Kart Race tomorrow). But Wheel to Wheel guys have gotten out of hand in a lot of cases - not as much fun between Drivers as there used to be.

A Good Tire is Toyo Proxe's R888 - Street Legal R Compound Track Tire