I've done track days and drag racing in a stock XR6T manual and skill is needed for both. If drags were so easy, then I (and many others) would have run close to identical times on every run. Trying to get the car off the line without too much wheel spin, without bogging it down and then getting through the gears shifting at the right RPM etc... isn't easy. There was 1sec difference between my best run and my worst run. So it took more skill to run the 14.0 (that I did late in the night after learning a few things) than it did for me to run the 15.0, and that’s a stock car.
The skill needed for a track day is a little more obvious. You think you drive hard on the street sometimes. Huh, its nothing compared to being on the track. But yes, it does take more skill to drive a Porsche GT3 round Wakefield Park than it does to drive an XR6T round the same track.
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