Driver Training
Discussion
RobM77 said:
Silverstone do one to one tuition. Check out their website. It's about £275 an hour in one of their Exiges I think.
It's about £275 an hour - You are kidding right?!The ards is just to show you are Safe (not that you are fast), if you are save and have very basic knowledge of where to place the car and know the flags, this sound a bit excessive! Not many fail the ARD's (if you do it is a clear message, like not passing your driving test first time!;)).
jellison said:
RobM77 said:
Silverstone do one to one tuition. Check out their website. It's about £275 an hour in one of their Exiges I think.
It's about £275 an hour - You are kidding right?!The ards is just to show you are Safe (not that you are fast), if you are save and have very basic knowledge of where to place the car and know the flags, this sound a bit excessive! Not many fail the ARD's (if you do it is a clear message, like not passing your driving test first time!;)).
Incidentally, I'd also recommend a test day before embarking on your first race. It gets one used to turning up early, unloading the car, signing on and last but not least, driving with other people on track.
STOWE said:
My new job is UK MD of a sports car manufacturer and I felt it was important that I could drive there cars with the professionalism required! I can't say who the company is until we do our press release next week.
Sounds like a great job ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Do let us know next week which company it is, you've got me guessing
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Best of luck in your new job
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RobM77 said:
STOWE said:
My new job is UK MD of a sports car manufacturer and I felt it was important that I could drive there cars with the professionalism required! I can't say who the company is until we do our press release next week.
Sounds like a great job ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Do let us know next week which company it is, you've got me guessing
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Best of luck in your new job
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STOWE said:
RobM77 said:
STOWE said:
My new job is UK MD of a sports car manufacturer and I felt it was important that I could drive there cars with the professionalism required! I can't say who the company is until we do our press release next week.
Sounds like a great job ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Do let us know next week which company it is, you've got me guessing
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Best of luck in your new job
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I can also vouch for Simon Mason's abilities. I haven't had any training from him, but people that I race with have and rate him highly. There is a standard course for high performance road driving, called HPC - I believe EVO have put a few of their new journos through it. I think if I was in charge of a sports car manufacturer I would want all my sales staff and a few others to attend a course such as that. I'm a training management consultant, and I negotiate corporate discounts on courses all the time; you'd be surprised what you can get and the tailoring and benefits you achieve by doing things that way.
Best of luck
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Can arrange car hire if needed too - but from the sound of it you way want to use one of yours!
Can arrange car hire if needed too - but from the sound of it you way want to use one of yours!
jellison said:
Is it just me - or does 1 in ten racer seem to offer this Driver training!
Mind you I could never sit next to anyone I thought was useless with out telling them to just STOP, and tell them straight Jesus mate get another hobby.
I confess I have sat with a few instructors who I've considered (and I do this for a living!) to be pretty useless. Lovely people, but no idea how to coach people properly. Most of the dialogue amounted to "yes, good. good. good. Turn in a bit later next time. good. good." Mind you I could never sit next to anyone I thought was useless with out telling them to just STOP, and tell them straight Jesus mate get another hobby.
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