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Are the result from your event listed online somewhere? If so share the link and I'll try to help decipher it for you.

PAX is like a handicap in golf, only it's based (loosely) on a car class, not the driver in the car. You should probably spend more time looking at the raw time results more than anything else until you get a feel for how things are going.

When you are looking at which cars finished where, pay less attention to the type of car and mods and more to the driver behind the wheel.

For an example, we typically have around 100 drivers at our SCCA events. When I first started, I usually finished around 70th in raw time. 3 years later, with a bunch of improvements to the car and the driver, I'm steadily in the 25-30th range out of 100 drivers and I regularly beat quite a few import cars with good drivers in them. The really good drivers in well prepped cars more built for this than my car still stomp me pretty good although I'm gaining on them every event.