Welcome to the Forum! You'll find people from all over the world here, who will be happy to offer help and share their experience. That said, there's nothing quite like having someone you can call on locally. Just remember that there is no such thing as a daft question, however basic: we all started out in this hobby once and needed to know about track or controllers etc.
Just watch out for the humour. As you see, we can't even spell it correctly.