general advise please
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Hi there,
being a newbie I thought I would seek the advice of some more expert advise.
I am always keen to improve my driving etc and even would love to have the oportunity of doing some endurance race before I get too old.. how is the best way to go about achieving this. Is it best to go for my IAM first or what? and how does a person actually get a racing liecence.
All advise would be gratefully recieved
roni
being a newbie I thought I would seek the advice of some more expert advise.
I am always keen to improve my driving etc and even would love to have the oportunity of doing some endurance race before I get too old.. how is the best way to go about achieving this. Is it best to go for my IAM first or what? and how does a person actually get a racing liecence.
All advise would be gratefully recieved
roni
AS far a a race licence is concerned you can usually do a one day ARDS course, but a longer course is obviously preferable. All the race licence does is show you can know the rules of a race track (flags etc) and can drive round it without upsetting anybody, learning to go fast is another matter. There used to be a good course at Silverstone for about 2 or 3 K.
As for doing IAM first, this is a bit like saying 'should I Swahili before I learn Serbo croat?'. Drivers trained on a race track first often find they have to unlearn a bit when doing IAM training, irrespective of how much road driving they do and vice versa.
Given that you are bound to be doing road driving if only to get to the circuit it's worth doing IAM training as soon as possible, though perhaps not worth bothering with the test. Just be prepared to switch styles.
As for doing IAM first, this is a bit like saying 'should I Swahili before I learn Serbo croat?'. Drivers trained on a race track first often find they have to unlearn a bit when doing IAM training, irrespective of how much road driving they do and vice versa.
Given that you are bound to be doing road driving if only to get to the circuit it's worth doing IAM training as soon as possible, though perhaps not worth bothering with the test. Just be prepared to switch styles.
Ron,
Excellent advice from Dr J!
One of my associates surprised me when he told me he raced his Morgan or his XK130 every weekend...I wondered why he had come to the IAM...he later told me that he had got quite a bit of extra info from the drives we did together.
As I did, when he took me to Brands Hatch in the XK as a 'thank you'.
BOF
Excellent advice from Dr J!
One of my associates surprised me when he told me he raced his Morgan or his XK130 every weekend...I wondered why he had come to the IAM...he later told me that he had got quite a bit of extra info from the drives we did together.
As I did, when he took me to Brands Hatch in the XK as a 'thank you'.
BOF
Various thoughts, not sure what experience you currently have but:
- MSA are the body for motorsport : http://www.msauk.org/site/cms/contentChapterView.a...
- IAM is a rather different skill from track drving
- if you want to improve your car control at the limit (not something I associate with the IAM!) and learn the feeling of a car starting to slide then a skid pan day and/or karting (ideally a decent size outdoor one) are relativly cheap and safe ways
- Motorsport is generally an expensive hobby.
- Buy yourself roadcraft
I always wanted to do some form of Motorsport and did several years of MiniX racing - at the time it was one of the cheapest things to do. Great fun.
- MSA are the body for motorsport : http://www.msauk.org/site/cms/contentChapterView.a...
- IAM is a rather different skill from track drving
- if you want to improve your car control at the limit (not something I associate with the IAM!) and learn the feeling of a car starting to slide then a skid pan day and/or karting (ideally a decent size outdoor one) are relativly cheap and safe ways
- Motorsport is generally an expensive hobby.
- Buy yourself roadcraft
I always wanted to do some form of Motorsport and did several years of MiniX racing - at the time it was one of the cheapest things to do. Great fun.
Edited by balls-out on Friday 26th September 11:01
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