Ultra high performance driving school by skip barber
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Hi guys,
I have done about 15 track days with PCA, BMCCA, NASA, Trackmasters, and others for the past 3 years, and autocross quite regularly. I am thinking of doing the ultra high performance driving school by skip barber. Has anybody here done that? I wonder if I will learn alot by taking the school. I guess what I want to know is, is it worth the money for me who has the above experience?
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I have done about 15 track days with PCA, BMCCA, NASA, Trackmasters, and others for the past 3 years, and autocross quite regularly. I am thinking of doing the ultra high performance driving school by skip barber. Has anybody here done that? I wonder if I will learn alot by taking the school. I guess what I want to know is, is it worth the money for me who has the above experience?
Thanks, any comments appreciated.
Richard
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Richard, what are your goals and what do want to accomplish in the next one to two years?
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I did the one out at Laguna Seca. It's all autocross and car control exercises. It's basically a 2-day drifting school in the Vipers. It really helped me get comfortable sliding a car around, and by sliding I mean excessive slip angles, not something you would do on track. I feel much more comfortable approaching (and exceeding) the limits of my 911 on track now that I've done it.
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earlyapex and chrisp, what I want to learn is to be able to slide the car, not just small slides, but powerslides. I talk to the skip barber sales guy, but he says there is no dedicated time for drifting, so I am not sure if this is the right school for me. Bondurant had a drifting school, but they cancelled it due to high costs. But from chrips's description, this is something that I want to do.
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Ask about the car control clinic too if you only have one-day to commit and/or prefer the open wheel car.
I forgot to mention that we did some skid pad work in the Dakota's too.
I forgot to mention that we did some skid pad work in the Dakota's too.
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Richard,
You can get a lot of practice stepping out the rear end of your car on an autocross. I see that you're in the bay area so I encourage you to attend some of the Loma Prieta autocrosses. We get at least 10 runs a day and instruction is available. All this for $30!
You can get a lot of practice stepping out the rear end of your car on an autocross. I see that you're in the bay area so I encourage you to attend some of the Loma Prieta autocrosses. We get at least 10 runs a day and instruction is available. All this for $30!