[Shotimes] RE: (OT) - The Driver's Edge for Teens

[Ron Porter]

The Drivers Edge is a teen-specific training course that sounds like it is
very useful. Plus, using Camaros and BMWs pretty much can cover the spectrum
of car that young teens think are pretty cool, so they can brag to their
friends......not like driving Dad's four-door Taurus!!

>From an adult-driver standpoint, save your pennies and go to a Drivers
School. Bondurant and others are quite useful! Steve Nelson at the
Convention (he being the SHO & Viper owner....both of which attended!!)
talked about taking a class at a Corvette school that used Z06s. As Don has
stated, it doesn't seem that there is much that we can do as a group,
because the SHO Club doesn't have thousands & thousands of members to
solicit to get great rates for a school. You have to search it out on your
own.

The only suggestion that came to me from the Convention was that I believe
that everyone in the Novice class should have a more experienced instructor
with them for at least one session, maybe two (we could juggle the run
schedule so the Advanced folks could do this). The Touring Group should also
request instructor help. As we observed, those groups were not following a
racing line and had a lot that they could learn on a track like Blackhawk.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:57 PM
Cc: Shotimes; V8List SHO
Subject: Re: (OT) - The Driver's Edge for Teens


Well,

WE have done two Skip Barber Schools and one half assed Bob 
Bondurant school.  But Ford was helping with them, and they 
cost a LOT of money.  I checked out doing one at Road 
America this year in Wisconsin and could not get the price 
down to about $500 per person for a short day if we could 
guarantee nearly 100 drivers!  I knew there was no way.

The Novice class this year is a very good way to get 
licensed drivers some safe track time and help them learn 
car control.

There are similar schools around the country, and you can 
always go by yourself or in small groups and pay the going 
rate of upwards of $600-$900 per day.

Don Mallinson

John Stout wrote:
> Ok what can we as the SHO Community do to help our
> members with something like this, yes tracks are fun,
> but real life situations are better my .02
> --- Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
>>FYI,
>>
>>This is a post forwarded from another list, from a
>>very satisfied father and
>>the instruction his 15-year-old got.
>>
>>Ron Porter 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jon Beatty [mailto:jon@minnetonkasoftware.com]
>>
>>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:26 PM
>>To: 911/993/996
>>Subject: [911] NPC - The Driver's Edge
>>
>>
>>I apologize in advance for no p-car content but I
>>was so impressed with 
>>the Driver's Edge teen driver training my 15
>>year-old attended 
>>yesterday, I just had to pass the word.  If anyone
>>has a new(er) driver 
>>in the house, 15-21 years old, you MUST get to one
>>of these schools.
>>They set up 2 exercises, one was a skid-pad car
>>control exercise using 
>>Camaros and the other was a braking and evasive lane
>>change exercise 
>>using BMW's.  Yep, that's right, they supply the
>>cars and some 
>>pro-drivers as instructors.  A mix of chalk talks
>>and getting the kids 
>>behind the wheel makes for a pretty fast 4 hours
>>but, in the words of my 
>>son "I learned more in 4 hours than I did in 30
>>hours of driver's ed", 
>>it has nothing but an up side.
>>Check them out at:
>>
>>http://www.driversedge.org/
>>
>>Sponsors are paying the tab and they include
>>Bridgestone, AAA and Sprint.
>>Think I might have to buy a new set of Bridgestone
>>shoes for my C4 (P-car
>>content?).
>>Jon
>>
>>
> 
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>>Jon P. Beatty               Phone:      (952)
>>449-0187
>>Minnetonka Software, Inc.   FAX:        (952)
>>449-0318
>>17113 Mtka. Blvd. Suite 300 Internet:  
>>jon@MinnetonkaSoftware.com
>>Minnetonka, Mn. 55345
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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