Skid Pan - Advanced Car Control Training

Skid Pan Courses on the largest skid control area in the UK from DriverSkills. Skid pan sessions are great fun and will also improve a your vehicle control skills, making journeys in difficult conditions safer and less stressful.

Half Day Course - £139.00 (Can also be purchased as a gift voucher) 

What You Will Learn

On this course you will drive on our vehicle dynamics area and learn skid control skills and techniques from a professional motorsport instructor. These skills will help you to handle difficult or unexpected slippery conditions in normal road driving. See Full Course Details 

DriverSkills on TV 

The BBC featured our skid pans recently if you would like to see the report click the video button below

Anti Lock Brakes

Also included are sessions driving on our simulated motorway area, here you will learn how to control the use of ABS (Anti Lock Brakes) for emergency swerve avoidance.

Driving Skills Covered

• Car Control
• Skid Avoidance
• Correct Use of Controls
• Anti Lock Brake System Correct Operation
• Early Skid Recognition
• Emergency Avoidance Techniques

Our Unique Skid Control Cars

Our skid cars are unique we don't use an adapted vehicle (as these adapted vehicles do not handle like a normal road car) instead we fit lower grip tyres to a normal family hatchback. This means that our cars will handle in the same way that a normal vehicle does allowing you to develop control skills that can be applied directly to your own vehicle!

Our Skid Pan is a clean environment using clear water and allows you to master skid control at higher speeds..

The skidpan is a huge area of smooth concrete which measures 1/2 mile by 3/4 mile and is the largest in the UK This large area allows us to teach skid control at higher speeds than a normal skidpan and in total safety. Many vehicle control courses will only allow you to drive at a very low speed (around 20 mph) but its a fact that the most common skids that often result in a road accident occur at around 30 to 40 mph. Because of this our skid control area is designed to allow drivers to skid in safety at 30 to 40 mph allowing you to develop real skills that will be of benefit to you.

Your Instructor

It's important that your skid control instructor has a high degree of skill and experience to enable accurate assessment and development of your skills. Your instructor will be a race winning rally or race car driver and a professional skid pan instructor. Some of our team also have experience teaching ice driving techniques on frozen lakes in Sweden and Norway. This degree of skill and experience will ensure your taught the correct vehicle control techniques.

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