Hey everyone! First post here! Like a lot of you I dream of doing as much racing as possible. I'd like to do a racing school or some type of driver development course. I have a week of vacation to use this year. I know some things maybe shut down for now. But I'm planning for in the future. Any suggestions? Ideas? I'd like something that can help me as a driver but also a fun city or town to explore with the girlfriend while I'm there.
The Porsche Experience Center recently re-opened here in Atlanta. It's a super quick ride from the Atlanta Intl Airport and has a nice hotel on premises. Similarly, the BMW Performance Driving School at the BMW factory near Greenville SC has just re-opened. I've had instruction at both venues and would absolutely recommend a trip to (and tour of!) both.
In reply to nderwater :
Thanks those are great ideas! I'll be looking into them. How would something like skip barber or Bondurant schools compare?
Different focus — the factory schools are partially about exposing you to driver training in awesome cars so that you want to buy them; the racing schools are more about pure driver development.
In reply to nderwater :
Ah gotcha, either would probably be a step in the right direction for where I am at right now. I need to do some research. Some of the bmw stuff looked like it was a good bang for the buck.
HPDE in your own car is the better bang for your buck, but if you’re looking to use vacation time I’d assume you’re looking for more of a unique experience. What’s your instruction background so far?
In reply to nderwater :
Mostly self taught, Read a lot of good things in grass roots magazine, internet and some good YouTube videos. I had a 2014 v6 camaro I bought myself at 22 intending to track it, modified it heavily and sadly had a seizure at low speeds and thankfully only thing I lost was the car. No one hurt no one else involved just myself and a tree. Got cleared from the doctor put on some meds and have been karting heavily since October of last year. I've done a few autoX events in the camaro though. I'm also doing a rental karting league once a month @nola motorsports. I also go to one of two tracks every weekend just to get cheap seat tune in the kart in. If the track is pretty slow I work on setting my best possible time. If it's busy I work at reading other drivers and passing. If it's raining it's usually pretty slow but I work on feeling grip and finding the fastest way around I can in the wet.
I am looking at getting something to track and get proper seat time in, I have my eye on a 06 civic Si that would fit the budget.
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