Advanced Skid Pan and Car Control Training
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The Drivers Survival Course!
Half Day - £139.00
(includes all equipment and insurance)
- The Car Control Course
- This is a unique skidpan course where you will not only have fun testing your skid control ability but also learn the full range of skills needed to 'Survive' on today's roads on skid pans. You'll learn how to stay in control of a car when it goes beyond its limit using the skid control skills and techniques used by the worlds best rally drivers! You will also learn how to master the use of ABS and EBD for emergency avoidance!
- The Car
- Our skid car is unique we don't use an adapted skid car, instead we fit lower grip tyres to a normal family hatchback. This means that our car will handle in the same way that a normal vehicle does allowing the participants to develop skills that can be applied directly to their own vehicles! We also wet one of the bends to create a change of grip/surface to emulate real road conditions.
- Our Skid Pan
- Our skid pan is a huge area of smooth concrete which measures 1/2 mile by 3/4 mile and is the largest in the UK. This allows us to teach car control in total safety at both low and very high speeds.
- The Instructor
- Your instructor will be a race winning rally or race car driver and a professional skid pan instructor. He will also have experience in providing tuition to rally competitors. Some of our team also have experience teaching ice driving techniques on frozen lakes in Sweden and Norway.
Advanced Skid Pan Course Details- Car Control Dynamics Briefing
- First there's a briefing from your instructor explaining exactly what happens when a car skids, how cars behave on skidpans and will give you tips on how to avoid a dangerous skid situation on the road. He'll also explain how top class rally drivers avoid crashing in horrendous conditions. Most of today's cars now come with 'active' driver aids like ABS EBD and EBA, but what do they do? Your instructor will also explain how this equipment works and what it can do for you!
- Demonstration
- Your instructor will demonstrate the driving techniques needed for each activity before you are put in the hot seat!
- Session 1 - Skid Pan
- During the first session your instructor will help you master the basics of car control including understeer control, most modern road cars will understeer in the majority of situations and if you know a few basics you can soon get the hang of controlling it.
- Session 2 - Avoidance
- On this session you will learn how to master the use of ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) in an emergency. We set up a couple of avoidance exercises to demonstrate just what these systems are capable of - if you know how to get the most out of them!
- Session 3 - SkidPan
- Back on the skidpan again but this time with the car set up to oversteer (rear end skid) This is quite a challenge at first but its also great fun. Your instructor will help you gain the confidence and techniques needed to bring the car back in control from some seemingly impossible situations!
- Session 5 - Crash and Escape Workshop
- This part of the course lasts around 15 min's and is unique to driverskills.com you'll learn all the vital information necessary to cope, if you are ever unfortunate enough to be in an accident situation. Workshop includes:-
What to do in the first 10 seconds (it will surprise you!), Getting out of an upturned car safely, What air bags do (and don't do!), Storing things in your car safely, what is the risk of fire, Do's and don'ts, and much more!
- Debrief
- Then its time to ask your instructor any questions and also receive your Certificate of skid pan Completion.
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