Anybody know of any good places to go for advanced driving courses or skid pan training in the SE?

I have nice quiet roundabout close to where I live that the car starts to drift on at 20ish in the wet. From what I have read on scoobynet I was expecting the car to understeer but in fact the back end started to slide first. I was using a pretty light throttle to push the car around the roundabout and as the car started to oversteer I deliberately reduced throttle to provoke further oversteer. The car duly obliged to angle of 30-40 degrees easily controlled with a bit of opposite lock.

Before anybody starts going on about doing this on the public road please appreciate that the point I am making is that I know practicing this on the road is dodgy at best which is why I want to find a training site. Please just accept that I was very careful in my choice of roundabout.

The car is running 17" rims with PZeros which probably does not help the wet handling.

Any constructive advice gratefully received.

 

I spent a day with John Cave of Drivetrain - he's in Oxford but well worth the travel. Learnt loads and a thoroughly decent bloke.

His web site is www.drivetrain.uk.com

Neil
www.scoobyworld.co.uk

 

Thanks Neil,

I will get it touch with him for some more info.

 

1st Lotus isn't too far away from you (Essex):

http://www.1stlotus.com/

 

I have booked an airfield day (16/12/02) with 1st Lotus.