As far as tripoding, I don't worry about that. I've been seeing that since the early days in club racing with the VW rabbits buzzing around Lime Rock. They would always get up on threes. It justs looks like plain old fun to me.
What I don't understand is this, I've been reading all these posts and threads about a whole bunch of mods and speed enhancements that everybody does to their cars, but to what end? So they can drive to work faster? Maybe I'm just weird but I'd really like to push it to the limit. Even if it's just stock for now. Find out what it has got, find out what I've got and just have fun.