RideDrive - Advanced Handling skills & Road driving experience

I'm doing this on Friday:

Ride Drive, High Performance Course, Advanced Driving, Car Handling, S03PM

Basically a couple of hours on a track / unused airfiled, then the rest of the day on the roads, learning good habits to get the most out of my car under the guidance of a police trainer (all day in the passenger seat).

Anyone done this? Apparently it changes the way you drive dramatically. I'll post here of my thoughts net week, but with 25% off your car insurance renewal quote with Adrian Flux, and my car cost the earth to insure, I can go on the day training and still save money!!!

Sounds interesting. Keep us posted, and how much was it BTW?

Cheers,

Nigel

Originally Posted by slimbloke

I'm doing this on Friday:

Ride Drive, High Performance Course, Advanced Driving, Car Handling, S03PM

Basically a couple of hours on a track / unused airfiled, then the rest of the day on the roads, learning good habits to get the most out of my car under the guidance of a police trainer (all day in the passenger seat).

Anyone done this? Apparently it changes the way you drive dramatically. I'll post here of my thoughts net week, but with 25% off your car insurance renewal quote with Adrian Flux, and my car cost the earth to insure, I can go on the day training and still save money!!!

Oh yeah! Your car must have cost a fortune to insure! How's she running?

Yep - keep us posted please I remember looking at their site ages ago. For those asking about prices, there is lots of info available from the main page Ride Drive, Advanced Driving, Advanced Motorcycle, Fleet Driver Training, Main Menu Page

Did This a couple of years ago....

Very good session very useful helped me no ends...

Guy was hugely enthusiastic - police driving instructor, really nice bloke.

Simes.

sounds interesting. looking forward to your report bud.

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Wow - what an amazing day... 260 miles later, I have (a) realised what my car is capable of, and (b) now know how to use the road in both a safer but (if necessary) more aggressive manner.

Full report to follow...

Originally Posted by slimbloke

Wow - what an amazing day... 260 miles later, I have (a) realised what my car is capable of, and (b) now know how to use the road in both a safer but (if necessary) more aggressive manner.

Full report to follow...

Sounds good, how much did it cost?

Great stuff, look forward to the report

Just looked at the site, seems a bit pricey, is it worth it?

Originally Posted by JimmerUK

Just looked at the site, seems a bit pricey, is it worth it?

Driver training in general

Err .. it's the biggest and most cost effective performance and potentially saftey upgrade you will ever give your car.. and you take it with you to every car you drive.

I've been banging on at this for a while - remaps, LSD's induction kits, better brakes are all good things, but driver training can show you how to use what you have to it's maximum rather than use half of what you upgrade, and htne loose both physically and financially when you change your car...

These guys as posted above were good...

Simes.

I did this course about a month ago and loved it. Would recommend it to all!

Do these recommendations apply to all regions? Not that there are any in Cornwall anyway, but the Devon one isn't too far.

Originally Posted by Simes

Err .. it's the biggest and most cost effective performance and potentially saftey upgrade you will ever give your car.. and you take it with you to every car you drive.

I've been banging on at this for a while - remaps, LSD's induction kits, better brakes are all good things, but driver training can show you how to use what you have to it's maximum rather than use half of what you upgrade, and htne loose both physically and financially when you change your car...

Absolutely!

You'll probably find you'll save on your fuel bill too as you'll vastly improve your observation and anticipation skills, making you a smoother (yet probably quicker) driver.

Win-win all round.