SMACS are losing it!
 

Well, they were today! :D But after spending the morning and afternoon having skid car training, they are now well prepared for any further incidents :)
Big thanks to Malcolm and Steve from carcontrol who took us through the excellent training today. We started off with a quick classroom session on car balance, under and oversteer, 4 wheel skids and smooth braking and acceleration. After that, it's into the skid control car:
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Once you've got a feel for the weight of the car, your instructor will then add or subtract grip front or rear depending on the effect needed.
More weight at the front, lots of oversteer, more on the rear, understeer city :)
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Once we'd practised lots of fun oversteer, in teams of 3, we then moved on to a timed course, and of course, we're not very competitive! :D
The results of our competition on the sunday was Carl in the top spot, with a perfect run, with myself and Supertouring in 5th and 6th as we spun out :(
On the day before, JohnWRX came first in the morning session :thumb: and then bre3tt came first in the afternoon session :thumb:
The final session today saw Repsol1 take the lead :thumb:
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Saturdays session boys! :)

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Martin Sti in action! :)

All in all, for the price of a tank of petrol, it's been the best day of driver training I've had. The chance to really lose it in complete safety, and learn from my mistakes there and then has been invaluable. I and pretty much everyone who have been on this over the weekend highly recommend this event. :thumb:

A short 26mb wmv film can be downloaded from here: http://www.scoobysmacs.co.uk/Videos/skid%20training.wmv enjoy! :thumb:

What perfect timing for this course - https://www.scoobynet.com/northern-2...-fun-snow.html

Highly recommended. Great day.

Brilliant day as Chris said highly recomended:thumb:

PS good title Chris:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

What a top day we had and well worth every penny. Thanks Chris for organising it:thumb:

quality day :thumb:

cheers chris :D

Yes top day thanks again :thumb:

Just a few pics that I took. Thanks to all those involved in organising and running the day(s) and also to those who took part for making me laugh so much!!! :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

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Our venue for the day:
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What Mike (TI7OJO) did to the tires after his donuts:
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And yes, that is the canvas!!!

great day out in the greatest city of them all. i agree with what cw42 said about liverpool being worthy capital of culture status.

highly recomend this to anyone though :thumb:

I would never say that! :D

Did everyone make it back with all four wheels attached to their Scoobs?:D

Looks like you had a great day out.

nice one:thumb: