As an up and coming, or returning driver myself I'd agree with the above, don't go for too much too fast is my view, I agree try to keep mistakes to a minimum apart from things beyond your control obviously. See if you can do a race without being marshalled and taking it easy over obstacles. You'll notice that although many of the drivers around you will be doing faster laps you will still beat them over 5 mins. Find some benchmark drivers around your level and look to improve relative to them.
Once you've got round cleanly look at the lap times and you'll see that you might be 5 seconds a lap off the best at the meeting, but then as others say, take each section of the track and try to do it slightly quicker and in time you'll learn the limits of the car and you'll find that gap starting to reduce.
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