Just got back from Racing School!!
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Just got back from Racing School!! I went to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving and I did the 2 Day Grand Prix Specailty. It was the most fun I've ever had in my life. Now I was driving the Mustang GT's, but after driving the car on the track and getting quite a bit of time behind the wheel, I have developped a whole new respect for the car. I was on the track with other GT's and C5 Corvettes and I was passing the guys in the other Stangs and the guys in the Vettes! Not to toot my own horn, but I was the most advanced driver there so it just goes to show that just because a car has about 100 more HP than another it doesn't necessarily make it faster. If any of you out there were considering this school or any other, I would strongly suggest going. It is worth it! 
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Go to Bondurant's website and that will give you an idea of how much the different schools are. I know Bondurant is a little more on the expensive side, but his school is definately among the best out there. www.bondurant.com
Originally Posted by ActionJack
I have definately considered schools but how much are they???
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Originally Posted by plumbr
Headed there may 12th for the three day grand prix. Looks like it will be a blast even though I'll be the one without any experience.
Does not matter. You will have the time of your life anyway. If you don't have a great time, then you're doing something wrong. Here's my advice: Use a school like that to test your limits and not the car's limits. If you come close to your limit then you should, in most cases, be beyond the limit of the car. In other words, if you're going around their road course and you are at a point where you don't think the car can go any faster through a corner, try it. Push the car a little faster through that corner and if the car can't handle it, then you use your skill and what you've learned to bring it back. It's all about trial and error. If you don't test your limits beyond the limits of the car then you won't ever get any better.
P.S. Just don't crash.
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Originally Posted by Zo6Killer
The "Z06 Experience" sounds cool. I would of course make sure that I got my $$$ worth, and that pretty much involves beating the living **** out of the car. 
I would strongly suggest that you go do the Z06 Experience. When i was there, the group doing the Z06 Experience were a bunch of sissys with light feet. Those Z06's need someone like you to really go out and pound on em.
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That's good to hear, my Bondurant 3-day Grand Prix school is this Thurs-Sat. Supposedly this course uses regular C5 Vettes, not Z06 and definitely not the 'Stangs.
I'm psyched!! No clue where I'll be relative to my fellow students in terms of experience, it's pot luck.
I'm psyched!! No clue where I'll be relative to my fellow students in terms of experience, it's pot luck.
this is true just because a car has more hp doesnt make it faster....my buddy races SCCA w/ a Miata and continueously beats vettes,stangs,etc
Racing/Driving schools are a great driving tool to learn cars limits and yours...and def. helps out in everyday driving...
I went to the Skip Barber 3 day school 3 yrs ago and have also raced in the Formula Dodge series
That is another top notch school w/ intructors at every turn and giving you helpful feedback to get faster...
For Xmas my parents got me into the Doug Foley Drag Racing School I cant wait to try that....
PS Seat time is everything
Racing/Driving schools are a great driving tool to learn cars limits and yours...and def. helps out in everyday driving...
I went to the Skip Barber 3 day school 3 yrs ago and have also raced in the Formula Dodge series
That is another top notch school w/ intructors at every turn and giving you helpful feedback to get faster...
For Xmas my parents got me into the Doug Foley Drag Racing School I cant wait to try that....
PS Seat time is everything
I'd always heard that Miata's ruled in autoX. Then I actually started going to some autox meets around here, and was surprised so see the top dawgs driving 'Vettes! In the stock classes, Z06's seem to be beating about everything else.
his hp is somewhere around 300 hp or so....
autox is different then SCCA races....even tho alot of the autox is sacationed by SCCA..
He races at raceways i.e. road atlanta,kershaw,summit point etc..
autox is different then SCCA races....even tho alot of the autox is sacationed by SCCA..
He races at raceways i.e. road atlanta,kershaw,summit point etc..
Originally Posted by Demonicbird00
autox is different then SCCA races....even tho alot of the autox is sacationed by SCCA..
He races at raceways i.e. road atlanta,kershaw,summit point etc..
He races at raceways i.e. road atlanta,kershaw,summit point etc..
im not sure all the specifics in either scca or autox....ive only heard of solo1 & 2 a couple times so im not sure what it intails....
im sure if you go to the scca web page that will have all break downs and such...im still learning road racing info w/ cars....im only racing karts right now
im sure if you go to the scca web page that will have all break downs and such...im still learning road racing info w/ cars....im only racing karts right now