Driving school

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Bondurant is by far the best technical training school you're going to get....

They have a very proven (boring) base building way of training -- but -- and this is the big butt -- when you get on track and show that you can actually drive and have paid attention to what they're telling you -- THEY WILL HELP YOU GO FASTER... the instructors there TRULY want you to go faster.

Some schools (shall remain nameless around Las Vegas area) are more "pay your money for an adult play school"... so you might get more "seat time" - but they won't help you go faster. HUGE DIFFERENCE. Just huge.

Bondurant WANTS you to go fast and they'll work on you and break it all down and if you're fast enough - the instructors will come out and PUSH you harder. Gotta love that!

Do their track cars run Intros?

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Do their track cars run Intros?

On request!


But if you want to go FAST -- you have to run WELD RACING.

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

On request!


But if you want to go FAST -- you have to run WELD RACING.

Ok I got it

Intos = style
Weld = utility

[SLO_Z28]

I would take a serious look at the Evolution Driving School. I would argue that autocross is more difficult than time trials where you get to practice the same corner 10000 times, and any skills gained in autocrossing directly translate into time trials. These guys are fairly well known as probably the premier autocross instruction schools. You get training in your own car too, which helps.

http://evoschool.com/

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by SLO_Z28

I would take a serious look at the Evolution Driving School. I would argue that autocross is more difficult than time trials where you get to practice the same corner 10000 times, and any skills gained in autocrossing directly translate into time trials. These guys are fairly well known as probably the premier autocross instruction schools. You get training in your own car too, which helps.

http://evoschool.com/

The Evolution school is another great idea. I would argue though that autocross and time trials (road racing, yes?) are different enough to warrant two different driving styles though, and the skills gained from one won't translate to the other without some serious adjustment. Both schools will teach fundamentals like vision and vehicle dynamics, but how you brake, what you do with the steering wheel, and how you provide inputs to the the car are going to be completely different. I went to autocross the day after Bondurant, and I had to completely change driving styles.

Matt