5-day intensive course @ Silverstone Race School
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Absolutely! You can adapt the skills they teach to everyday road driving to improve your pace and safety. It's probably different for different people but for me the key learning was The Vision or what they called 'looking ahead far enough'. The theory in a nutshell is as follows... What causes a driver to make sudden changes in speed and direction? Answer -- not having enough time to react in advance. Why? Because he wasn't looking ahead far enough. It's a very common mistake, apparently. Because in city driving we learn to look at the nose of our car to make way through traffic. This doesn't give us enough information about what's happening ahead, and as a result not enough time to react...
What they taught me about car control is also of great help. Over the course of 5 days I had so many sideways moments that I've learnt not to panic but just work WITH the car (they spent quite a long time drumming in that a car is just a piece of physics so you have to respect that as a driver and work with it).
Another key learning was that most people don't brake hard enough. I was amazed to learn that when I thought I braked really hard and late I could brake even harder and later on the next lap, and still get away with it! It was also very interesting to learn and experience that locking up is not always bad. If it's the front inside wheel than it's OK.
So it's things like these and many more that you learn and then apply consiously or unconsiously (this spelling doesn't look right but you know what I mean
).
Hope this helps.
Andrei
PS. Yes, 2 grand will buy you many different and nice things (not sure about a car though ). It's a matter of personal interests and priorities, I suppose...
Absolutely! You can adapt the skills they teach to everyday road driving to improve your pace and safety. It's probably different for different people but for me the key learning was The Vision or what they called 'looking ahead far enough'. The theory in a nutshell is as follows... What causes a driver to make sudden changes in speed and direction? Answer -- not having enough time to react in advance. Why? Because he wasn't looking ahead far enough. It's a very common mistake, apparently. Because in city driving we learn to look at the nose of our car to make way through traffic. This doesn't give us enough information about what's happening ahead, and as a result not enough time to react...
What they taught me about car control is also of great help. Over the course of 5 days I had so many sideways moments that I've learnt not to panic but just work WITH the car (they spent quite a long time drumming in that a car is just a piece of physics so you have to respect that as a driver and work with it).
Another key learning was that most people don't brake hard enough. I was amazed to learn that when I thought I braked really hard and late I could brake even harder and later on the next lap, and still get away with it! It was also very interesting to learn and experience that locking up is not always bad. If it's the front inside wheel than it's OK.
So it's things like these and many more that you learn and then apply consiously or unconsiously (this spelling doesn't look right but you know what I mean
).Hope this helps.
Andrei
PS. Yes, 2 grand will buy you many different and nice things (not sure about a car though
). It's a matter of personal interests and priorities, I suppose...
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