JST
10-19-2003, 08:34 PM
I go away for two weeks, and someone starts a new website on me, TD gets a new wagon, and Hack gets a Z4. Things move fast around here.
Last week, I was in Spartanburg (actually, Greer) at the Performance Center doing their two day car control class. Overall, I was impressed with the class. The cars that we used were 330iA SPs, so there was no heel and toe work, but other than that, they covered the majority of topics I wanted to work on. We spent a fair amount of time on the wet skidpad, as well as doing various lane change and braking exercises. The highlight of the class, though, are the "autocross" sections, which are done on sections of the track that are much faster than what I think of as an autocross around here. They run you through finding the apex, the turn in and track out points, and continually emphasize how important it is to keep looking ahead. This is all stuff I've heard before, but the hands-on work was very helpful.
Then they let us hammer some other cars around. I'll post that in a different thread...
Last week, I was in Spartanburg (actually, Greer) at the Performance Center doing their two day car control class. Overall, I was impressed with the class. The cars that we used were 330iA SPs, so there was no heel and toe work, but other than that, they covered the majority of topics I wanted to work on. We spent a fair amount of time on the wet skidpad, as well as doing various lane change and braking exercises. The highlight of the class, though, are the "autocross" sections, which are done on sections of the track that are much faster than what I think of as an autocross around here. They run you through finding the apex, the turn in and track out points, and continually emphasize how important it is to keep looking ahead. This is all stuff I've heard before, but the hands-on work was very helpful.
Then they let us hammer some other cars around. I'll post that in a different thread...