The key is to go with a group of people and split the price. Running on your own all day would be too much, I think.. no to mention your tires would HATE you by the end of the day. Get like 4 friends and pay 60 bucks each.
I'm pretty sure it's more expensive than $60 even for a regular track day lol. I'd have to check on that.
Here are a handful of pics from the event (before when we all met up and during the event):
http://wenink.smugmug.com/Cars/Watkins-Glen-Opening-Weekend/16656984_fZdxX3#1255737833_bTwsMT6
There were are a lot of regular family cars and crappy cars there. But our group mainly consisted of more race-oriented cars. The only car in our group that sucked major balls was the Jeep
. I got stuck behind it with the 350 on one of the runs. We were on his ass the entire time lol. We'd lag behind for the turns and stuff but then we'd catch up mid turn because he was going SSOO slow through it lol.
The 350Z lost it on "turn 9" (it's a sharp and long left, slightly uphill) in front of me. That was scary... I saw his ass start to slide out so I immediately braked. He corrected but then slid the other way, and overcorrected and slid back and completely lost it, came a few feet from the tire wall, and stopped on the side facing the wrong way lol. I look in my rear view and the guy behind me almost locked his wheels up coming to a stop and a few seconds later there are 6 other cars stopped lol.