Lotus driving experience (lotus licence)
Discussion
Has anyone done the 3 day session before - i have done CAT advanced driver training and looking for other options to improve my skills.
However at £1,600 and if I've read correctly, only 6 hours of actual seat time, I'd like to get some thoughts first.
First of all, worth doing, and secondly good value for money?
However at £1,600 and if I've read correctly, only 6 hours of actual seat time, I'd like to get some thoughts first.
First of all, worth doing, and secondly good value for money?
I actually did the 3-day Bronze-Silver-Gold course this past weekend. Major luck with the weather considering I booked in the Spring!
Good value? I have not done anything similar elsewhere to directly compare but I would say yes.
Good points:
Clearly very enthusiastic instructors and 3-4 instructors per day so you get a range of perspectives and feedback. Some more experienced than others, Rob Barff in particular ran a tight ship but really knows his stuff and gotna great balance of instruction with fun/ engagement.
Cars all well maintained and instructors not precious in the slightest - active encouragement to push performance. Instant confidence in the machinery.
A real opportunity to get to know the on-limit characteristics of the car(s)
Nice people - had a good international group, including French, Swiss, Ozzy and Japanese - all Lotus fans!
Very cool tour of the heritage Chapman F1 collection and very interesting tour of full production line.
In terms of on-track instruction, you kind of had short high-internsity blasts - clearly they know what they are doing, non-professional drivers will lose concentration quickly and you are doing 130mph at the end of the day!
Circuit - 2.2 miles - great mix of high and medium speed stuff, satisfying corner sequences that were learnt by end of day one.
It was the first time I had done anything of this type and I did it to give me confidence to take my own car on track.
I would suggest you would learn significantly more on this course than by spending the equivalent readies on however many driving 'experiences'... the only alternative might be some one to one driver tuition but I'm not sure how far £1,600 goes on that front...
Hope helpful - Lotus licence holder #156
Good value? I have not done anything similar elsewhere to directly compare but I would say yes.
Good points:
Clearly very enthusiastic instructors and 3-4 instructors per day so you get a range of perspectives and feedback. Some more experienced than others, Rob Barff in particular ran a tight ship but really knows his stuff and gotna great balance of instruction with fun/ engagement.
Cars all well maintained and instructors not precious in the slightest - active encouragement to push performance. Instant confidence in the machinery.
A real opportunity to get to know the on-limit characteristics of the car(s)
Nice people - had a good international group, including French, Swiss, Ozzy and Japanese - all Lotus fans!
Very cool tour of the heritage Chapman F1 collection and very interesting tour of full production line.
In terms of on-track instruction, you kind of had short high-internsity blasts - clearly they know what they are doing, non-professional drivers will lose concentration quickly and you are doing 130mph at the end of the day!
Circuit - 2.2 miles - great mix of high and medium speed stuff, satisfying corner sequences that were learnt by end of day one.
It was the first time I had done anything of this type and I did it to give me confidence to take my own car on track.
I would suggest you would learn significantly more on this course than by spending the equivalent readies on however many driving 'experiences'... the only alternative might be some one to one driver tuition but I'm not sure how far £1,600 goes on that front...
Hope helpful - Lotus licence holder #156
skinny said:
That's great feedback, thanks for taking the time to reply with so much detail.
Baldchap you did the platinum day too? Would love to but don't think i can justify the cost on that one
Yes. We actually did the very first four day block course. The missus has 'carbon license' 001. We've also discussed going again, it was awesome.Baldchap you did the platinum day too? Would love to but don't think i can justify the cost on that one
You can tack platinum day on later if you want to do it, having done the first three days prior.
TripAdvisor has some good detail as to what each day holds.
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