Full Day - £269 (including car and all equipment)

Advanced Skid Control Training and Performance Driving tuition in one full day - our most popular on track course..

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This Advanced driving experience combines our Driving Survival Skid Pan Driving training in the morning and the High Performance Driving Course in the afternoon. This combination has been really popular with our customers - so we are now offering it as a package at a reduced price! We believe this course is the most complete one day driver training experience available - anywhere!

The movie footage of our courses is only a brief overview, for full course details please seen below.

The Morning

The day starts with our unique advanced skid control course (or it could be performance driving first dependant on structure of the day) where you will not only have fun testing your driving ability but also learn the full range of skills needed to "Survive" on today's roads. It has been developed from our experience in providing skid control training for US State department body guards and Military Special Forces and also winter driving courses on ice lakes in Sweden.

The Afternoon

After lunch - which is available at our on site cafe, you will then move on to our race circuit for the advanced performance driving course. This advanced driving experience offers a unique opportunity to learn the skills and techniques used by race driving champions, having learnt the skills of skid control in the morning you can now move on to learn; racing lines, effective braking technique, hand eye coordination, corner turn-in technique and much more!

The Instructor

Your instructor will be a national championship winning race or rally driver. who will also have experience in teaching skid control to rally competitors on ice lakes in Sweden.

The Equipment

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.

For the performance driving you will be driving one of our school cars (Ford Focus Zetec). These cars are well balanced and easy to drive allowing you to soon get up to speed! All the performance driving sessions are around our 1.6 mile circuit which has a mixture of high speed curves and tight hairpins.

Advanced Driving Experience Course Details

Car Control Dynamics Briefing

First there's a briefing from your instructor explaining exactly what happens when a car skids, and tips are given 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 electronic driver aids like ABS and ESP, but what do they do? Your instructor will also explain how this equipment works and what it can do for you! You are then split into groups and introduced to your track instructor (maximum group size 4 people).  

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 under steer control, most modern road cars will under steer 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 an avoidance exercise to demonstrate just what this system is capable of - if you know how to get the most out of it!

Session 3 - SkidPan

Back on the skid pan again. On this session you will find everything much easyer and more natural. Your instructor will encourage you to let the car slide more and ever spin around! This will give you the confidence and techniques needed to bring the car back in control from some seemingly impossible situations!

Session 4 - Crash and Escape Workshop

This part of the session 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.

Lunch Break

A one hour lunch break in our on site cafe.

Briefing - Learn the secrets!

An informal briefing by your instructor on everything from basic car dynamics to the techniques used by the world's best racing drivers. You are then split into groups and introduced to your track instructor (maximum group size 4 people).  

Session 1 - Instructor Demonstration

Your instructor will show you the correct lines and braking points and also demonstrate other high performance driving techniques explained in the briefing.

Session 2 - Advanced Performance Driving

Then its your turn behind the wheel of our school car getting to grips with the basics to start with such as: Racing Lines and Braking Points!

Session 3 - Advanced Performance Driving

Behind the wheel again improving on the skills developed in session one and also moving onto: Turn-in Technique, throttle balance, Weight Distribution and for the more experienced - Heal-toe.

Session 4 - Final Skill Assessment

This final session allows your instructor to assess your performance and fill out your assessment form. You can now pull together all you have learnt in the previous sessions and really let your driving push the limit.

Debrief

A final chance to ask any questions and a look at your hand written assessment.