2–Day Advanced Driving, Car Control & Skidpan Experience

Allocated Time: 16–Hours 1:1 (2–Days)
Content: On–Road Advanced Driver Training, Inc. 1–Hour Car Control & 1–Hour Skid Pan Experience
Content: Free Driver Risk Assessment For Discount Car Insurance
Option: Include National Accredited Qualification
Vehicle: Customer Supplied Car (Road & Car Control). Supplied Vehicle (Skid Pan)

N.B. Ride Drive do not run skid pan courses as a single activity, as all skid car sessions are delivered as an integral part of an advanced road and skid pan driving package.

Introduction

This Two–Day On–Road Advanced Driving Course not only provides a superb driver training activity, but combines this with a Car Control Course and a skid pan experience. In driver improvement terms this has practically everything you need to take the relationship you have with your car to a completely new level.

The Y05PM–SC driving course option really does pack in the best of everything, pulling in all the resources that Ride Drive has to offer the road driver over a two–day period. The three elements of the car control programme, skid pan experience and advanced road driving course, all complement each other very well, providing what is probably the most complete on–road advanced driver training package.

The manner in which the course is delivered is that of being totally relaxed and friendly, whilst always focussing on the positive aspects of your development to help build your confidence. You could be forgiven for assuming you were participating in a recreational event, but you will learn a huge amount about yourself as well as your car.

As the various learning points are delivered in such a subtle manner it may be only at the end of the course you realise how many new skills you have taken on board.

Format of the Course It matters not whether the skid pan experience of your programme, or the car control session, takes place on day–1 or day–2. Usually the decision as to which you complete first will be decided by venue availability and convenience. On a date and at a time you have agreed with your Ride Drive trainer you will meet at a mutually convenient location for the beginning of your first driving day. This should be somewhere reasonably close to your home address. At the time of arranging the appointment you will have discussed the aims and objectives of the course on the telephone, and been given the opportunity to have your say about what you want to get from it. The road driving input of the day is delivered both on the way to and from either the skid pan or the off–road driving venue and we generally arrive sometime in the middle of the day. Location and timing will determine whether a lunch stop is made before or after the off road activities.
		The Two–Day Advanced Driving, Car Control and Skid Pan Course is available in many regions of the UK, including, Leicester, Solihull, Oldham, Stockport, Rochdale, Newbury, Hitchin, Coventry and Kettering. Click on the map above for full list of available start points.

The First Driving Day of Two

The day begins with a short safety briefing and a recap of the agreed format of the day. With your Ride Drive trainer comfortably on board you begin to make your way over a predetermined selection of roads your trainer will have mapped out to illustrate the various points to be covered.

Your route will take you towards the first of two off-road driving activities at the skid pan or aerodrome, as the time-slot there will have already been booked.

About mid–morning there will be a coffee stop and this will provide a good opportunity to discuss the techniques you have begun to learn. This is usually where the coasters on the café table are used as model vehicles and manoeuvred into position to illustrate a point or two.

For the afternoon, and after a light lunch, a different route is taken on the way home and you will notice how the structure in your delivery has changed. The flow of your drive will seem less hurried and smoother, and yet your pace will be more progressive. The car will feel more balanced and there will be a whole lot less braking going on.

At the end of the day there will be a thorough de–brief and you will be advised which points you have covered during the day that will benefit from some self–motivated practice.

The Second Driving Day

It is always best to separate the two dates with what we term as development time. Depending on how much mileage you cover, and over what time scale, the usual break between dates is about 2–weeks. This helps you to become more comfortable with what can be to you quite a radical driving style.

Again, the day begins at your agreed meeting point, and after a quick recap of the safety aspects of the day, and the points covered during day–1, you set off for another great day of driving.

It will be during the afternoon, and after you have completed the second of the two off–road activities, you find you have really connected with the car. This is where you are now working on partnership with it, as opposed to dispassionately operating a piece of machinery.

At the day’s end there is a final debrief, during which your Ride Drive trainer will hand over to you some notes, indicating all the skills you have covered and showing any areas that will benefit from your particular attention. However, these will not be faults as such, but advice on fine–tuning your drive to add even more polish to your delivery.

The Car Control Session The car control programme of your two–day advanced driving course takes place at one of the various hard surface driving sites to which as have access to around the country, and which we have risk assessed for your use. These venues usually take the form of a disused airfield and are selected to provide plenty of open space in which to complete the car control exercises. The facilities are closed to the general public and provide what we term as a controlled environment. Within this space we can carry out various car control manoeuvres safely and far away from the unpredictability of the public road. With plenty of space available the exercises begin as basic activities, designed to illustrate how the things you do at the wheel affect the balance of the car. As your understanding grows we move onto more technical activities, by the end of which you will gain a much greater appreciation of what you ask of your car as you drive it. If your car is fitted with electronic driver safety aids we will be asking you to turn these off.
							Please note, this driving programme does not involve a track day, participation in a motorsport event, time trial, speed driving activity or any form of competitive driving. Off road manoeuvring and car control sessions are completed at risk assessed venues that are closed to the general public, so as to remove the activities from the unpredictibility of a public road environment. Standard road speeds will not be exceeded.

Everything you do here has a direct relationship to safer road driving, so that when you are on the road you will have a greater connection with the road and the vehicle. The car control activities are structured so as to be educational without harming your car.

Whatever happens, always remember that you are captain of your own ship and therefore have the last word on whether you complete any suggested manoeuvre.

Skid Pan Driving Session

There is a common misconception held by the general public that a skidpan experience will teach techniques that will enable you to correct a skid if this happens whilst driving on the public road.

When you take part in a skidding course for real, one thing it will demonstrate very clearly is the huge amount of space that is required to correct a skid. Even at maximum skidpan driving speeds of 15mph the space needed for recovery you will find as quite shocking.

What the skidding course will teach you clearly is that if you get into a skid at real driving speeds on the road you have practically no chance of getting out it without crashing, simply because there will not be room.

A skid pan driving course is really all about is learning how to drive on a low–grip surface without skidding, which you achieve controlling the car by your finger tips in a silky–smooth manner.

This comes back again to the process of feeling the car along the road, as opposed to operating a machine. Being sensitive to the vehicle will help you to predict more accurately its behaviour for any given situation and therefore maintain control of it effectively in all road and driving conditions.

After you have completed the skid pan course, and returned to the public road, you should notice how very much more aware you are of the car beneath you. You sense the way the suspension moves, the effect created when applying the brakes and changes in balance that occur relative to the application of steering.

Who Will be Suited to This Driving Course?

The Y05PM–SC On–Road Advanced Driving, Car Control and Skid Pan Course has been listed to attract road driving enthusiasts. This for people who want to get so much more from driving their car on the road, to really get under the skin of driving and who want to develop their skills to an exceptionally high standard.

There will be many who will look at this course and think it is too heavy–going for them to cope with. That will be a shame, as the reality of the matter is, the course is delivered whilst catering for the specific needs of the individual and will progress at a rate that is in tune with the customer.

There are no exams to pass, no big points to prove and no demeaning Highway Code quizzes. This is certainly not a driving lesson, but is a course for grown–ups that offers real life driving skills to help you not to become entangled with the incompetent actions of the standard road driver.

Discount Car Insurance Scheme

This driving course option is one that is recognised for the purpose of completing a driver risk assessment under the Ride Drive⁄Adrian Flux special discount car insurance scheme.

Customers assessed as representing a low level of insurance claim risk during their course can be awarded an advanced driving certificate to be used to claim as much as 25% off (excluding Insurance Premium Tax) the cost of renewing their policy. This will be conditional, however, upon that car insurance policy being renewed through Adrian Flux Insurance Services, instead of an existing provider (Terms and Conditions will apply).

Suggested Follow–On Courses
Incorporate these course features into Class–One Advanced Driving Course (Product Code T03CN–SC)
Incorporate into this option the Level–2 NQF Accredited Driving Course (Product Code T02CN–SC)

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Saturday, 29-Jan-2011

Available throughout the UK, including
Leicester, Solihull, Oldham, Stockport, Rochdale, Newbury, Hitchin, Coventry and Kettering.

2–Day Advanced Driving, Car Control & Skidpan Experience