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Re: Driving Schools
Lone Star Region - Porsche Club of America is
having a driving school on the 20th & 21st of February at Texas World
Speedway. It is $160.00 for the weekend, & an instructor is
provided. If you want to go really cheap, they will let you run for free
on Sunday if you volunteer as a corner worker on Saturday or vice versa. I
can't remember exactly what their web site is, but if you type "lsr
pca" in your browser, you will find it. The web site will have the
entry form & all the information that you need except for the work/run
arrangement I mentioned. For that, you will need to contact the registrar
to express interest.
Of course, for this school as well as the one
that Billy mentioned, you have to provide the car. If you want a school
that provides a car, you will need to go to one of the big schools (read big
bucks). As an alternative to Barber, Bondurant, Russell etc., Derek Daly
has a new school in Las Vegas that I have heard good things about, & there
is the new Panoz school that runs at Road Atlanta. Also, one of the big
schools (can't remember which) runs a school in Canada, & because of
exchange rates, it is substantially cheaper to run the school in Canada even
with air fare (from Houston, TX). I know this because I have friend that
is considering attending the school in Canada.
By the way, I would highly recommend doing some autocrossing
(at least once) before going to a high performance driving school. It will
give you a chance to learn the basics in a low stress setting. It's much
easier to push the car to 10/10ths in an autocross setting as a novice because
you don't worry nearly as much about hitting a wall of cones at 50 mph as you do
about hitting a wall of concrete at 100 mph. It doesn't matter how
aggressive you think you drive on the street. You will push much harder in
a race setting whether it be road race or autocross, & it takes some
getting-used-to. You will get much more out of the school if you have some
autocross experience under your belt. I autocrossed for about a year
before I set foot on a race track. This was more by budget than by choice,
but the experience paid off when I finally got the chance to go road
racing.
Good luck!
Michael Keith
Pasadena, TX
'98 Jetta GLX
'85 Golf SCCA ITB
Where
do you live? We have a good one in Texas, at Texas World Spped way in
college station(Bryan)... cost is 275 for a two day school. The
guy that organizes them is really into VW/Audi. I can get more info if
interested.
Billy T.
"Karp, Steve" wrote:
This is a bit off topic, but what kind
of experiences have you all had with driving schools like Skip Barber,
Bobdurat etc. I'm looking for something where I can learn the
basics of high performance driving/racing, get a lot of track time, and
just have fun. I've never done anything like this, have never
autocrossed, or raced, or anything ... a complete novice looking to
learn.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
98 GLX Red/Black
10K Stock with 20% Tint all
around