Skid control in Scotland?

[mccarn]

Anybody know any decent courses in Scotland for skid control? Just I lost the car on a roundabout yesterday (started to slide, overcorrected it, hit the banking and rolled it on its roof).

[Big Fat F'r]

Try this: http://www.knockhill.com/index.php

Look up the the skid control under the video clips.

While you are doing that, see how long it takes for someone on here to tell you that what you need to learn is skid prevention, rather than control!!!

BFF

[StressedDave]

Big Fat F'r said:

Try this: http://www.knockhill.com/index.php

Look up the the skid control under the video clips.

While you are doing that, see how long it takes for someone on here to tell you that what you need to learn is skid prevention, rather than control!!!

BFF

Is now soon enough? It's true, merely because the amount of real estate you have to play with to control a skid on the road is usually insufficient for the task. That said, being able to determine when you're getting close to the limit is one of the key things to learn and the only place to do that is on a skid control course.

[CorsaScott]

Can recommend the knockhill course. Did it about 9 months ago now (only had my licence for 4 months at that point) and it was a great experience. I've always been into my cars (used the play the game where i would name the make, model and production years of each car we drove past with my dad when I could barely see over the dash) so I knew what to do in the event of skidding, but there is nothing like acctually doing it.

On the knockhill course they have you do the obvious understeer and oversteer on the skid pan, then take you to the braking area. I thought this probably the most useful part, because they got you comparing the various braking methods. Heavy braking with antilock brakes, then they turned the antilock off and got you to lock up and feel what it's like. They then went on to teach Kadence(spelling?) braking, and the braking when you lock up, turn the wheels while your locked up, then release the brakes at the last second to get yourself to dive in the direction to avoid a hazzard (for the life of me, can't remember the name of this the guy gave me)

The course is well worth the money, I would highly recommend it to anyone.

[RabD]

I can also recommend the Knockhill course. The braking training is especially good.

[jaf01uk]

But excellent as Alistair and the guys at Knockhill are you can't beat the skidcar frame, skidpans are very restrictive by design, the frame allows you to do so much more and at real speed, not sure if there is one near you, the guy here that does it is the agent for Scotland and was saying the other day that the are getting a frame and car with ESP on so that could be interesting, if you google skidcar scotland you should find something,
Regards,
Gary

[BOF]

When I lived in Scotland it WAS a skidpan for a few months of the year - never had to pay for it.

Must be the climate change?

BOF.