Hi Larry!
The CVAR school and the Stephens Brothers school are both mainly geared
toward racing safely at those specific tracks, and how to drive those
tracks in your specific car (I have been through both of them myself).
While this is good for your use of that track, it doesn't help you learn
basic and advanced driving techniques applicable everywhere.
While I have not attended any other schools, I have heard good things about
the Bondurant schools and some of the other schools around the country from
people who have attended them. TWS has Team Texas, Panoz and the Petty
schools, I believe, and there are several other ones around the US.
You want to make sure you take the two-day or longer school and not the
afternoon or day school. The shorter ones are basically to introduce you
to driving a racecar on a track, while the longer ones deal with driving
mechanics and techniques. You can find the course descriptions on the
school Web sites.
I hope this helps!
Keep Triumphing,
Susan :)
Original Message:
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From: Larry Young cartravel@pobox.com
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:20:44 -0600
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Learning to Drive
We had a one hour Enduro at the CVAR race this past weekend. Bob Kramer
and I decided to share the driving of my car. Bob is a previous owner
of the car and a more experienced driver, so I thought it would be
interesting to see what he could do with it. Sure enough, it took him
only about 5 laps to get down to my best lap time after two years of
struggling. He probably would have gone even faster if the race hadn't
been cut short. So, I'm wondering how to improve. I've been through
the CVAR school at TWS and a Stephen's Bros. school at Hallet. Both of
these schools showed me "the line" for that course, but didn't explain
"why". I'm sure there are those that have natural instincts for driving,
but I'm not one of them. I feel like I need to understand a bit more
about the physics of driving. I've read Carroll Smith's book "Drive to
Win", but it's written for F1 wannabes and didn't do much for me. Can
anyone recommend books or schools that might help?
Thanks,
Larry Young
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