Skip Barber Driving school. Is it worth it?
08-14-2007, 09:38 AM
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Skip Barber Driving school. Is it worth it? I am looking at the Skip Barber High Performance Driving course as an investment into possibly saving myself from crashing one day. I am wondering if anyone here has taken that course or something similar and if you believe it was worth it or just a bunch of fluf. I really don't want to waste 1600 bucks :O
08-14-2007, 11:22 AM
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1: depends on if $1600 is a lot of money or not???
2: I always thought driving around a smaller track on a open track day or instruction day or through the cones in a parking lot in my own car would be a good start. helmet and $100-$250 a day. The problem becomes if you toast a set of brakes or tires. Touch a cone or worse...... maybe $1600 isn't bad. I want to drive my own car not someone elses. Someday....
2: I always thought driving around a smaller track on a open track day or instruction day or through the cones in a parking lot in my own car would be a good start. helmet and $100-$250 a day. The problem becomes if you toast a set of brakes or tires. Touch a cone or worse...... maybe $1600 isn't bad. I want to drive my own car not someone elses. Someday....
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i did skip barber at laguna seca. only did the one day class(in the little formula cars), but driving on Laguna Seca was worth it. the 3 day looks very involved and might be good, but dunno. the staff was good.
I also do the FAASST driving school. one day, get about 4hrs of track time, in ur car(they prefer race prepped cars, but i ran in the SS). was awesome and i would look into it also.
I also do the FAASST driving school. one day, get about 4hrs of track time, in ur car(they prefer race prepped cars, but i ran in the SS). was awesome and i would look into it also.
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I just talked to one of the instructors there about the different programs. I think I will be taking the 2 day driving school. It is the same as the high performance school except you use Mazda RX-8s and Miatas instead of M3's and 911's. You learn all the same maneuvers + recovery techniques and take the same classroom course. I will provide a writeup of my experience after I take the course.
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Originally Posted by ZeroFear
I just talked to one of the instructors there about the different programs. I think I will be taking the 2 day driving school. It is the same as the high performance school except you use Mazda RX-8s and Miatas instead of M3's and 911's. You learn all the same maneuvers + recovery techniques and take the same classroom course. I will provide a writeup of my experience after I take the course.
