great to hear your keeping the landy. enjoy what you can do and keep practicing you will get more comfident and better in no time you will be showing your friends up.
i have driven seris threes for years and found them more than capable driven against suzukis in comps and have never even been worried about them let alone beat
they are totaly differant dont try to drive your landy in the same way as your mates
welcome paterson what typ of landy do you have there is a lot of knowledge in this nut house of a forum but stick to it and you should have lots of fun.