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Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« on: July 27, 2010, 04:03:21 am »



The majority of drivers on the road today feel that they are good drivers despite the fact that they haven't had adequate driver training, opines contributor Russell Purcell.  Lessons from the professionals can really make a difference, he says.

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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 01:33:41 pm »
Interesting article.

I recently asked people on the forum about getting into motorsports and it looks like you need to be prepared to go without insurance whenever you get on a track.

Wonder if it's also the same for 'driving schools' such as this.  As I found out in my research, there are several opportunities of this kind in Ontario (an article on Ontario opportunities would be good too!), but the insurance question makes me hesitate. 
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 02:44:18 pm »
Julie, insurance is good if it is a school.

Check out this article I wrote last year.  If you are itching, the Saab school has open spots in October!
http://www.canadiandriver.com/2009/07/28/feature-saab-enhanced-driving-school.htm
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2010, 07:14:04 pm »
Quote from: wing on July 27, 2010, 02:44:18 pm
Julie, insurance is good if it is a school.

Check out this article I wrote last year.  If you are itching, the Saab school has open spots in October!
http://www.canadiandriver.com/2009/07/28/feature-saab-enhanced-driving-school.htm

Cool!  Thanks James.   :D  I'll see tomorrow if I can get that day off....
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 12:18:36 pm »
Looks like these kinds of events are no go's for many insurers these days...

The BMW Club driving school's advice is to consider your insurance void (given 'current insurance climate')

Too bad.
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 12:22:39 pm »
What's the current insurance climate?  Make tons of cash by hosing customers?
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2010, 12:32:14 pm »
Quote from: wing on July 28, 2010, 12:22:39 pm
What's the current insurance climate?  Make tons of cash by hosing customers?

Yup.  The insurers lost lots of money with the US credit crisis....

Doesn't matter if it's a driving school, if you're there to learn driving skills and not racing skills, if there is no timing whatsoever, if there's an instructor with you in your car always, etc., etc... 
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2010, 02:45:18 pm »
I heard the G1 tests now include lots of questions about demerit points, license suspensions, fines, and penalties.

Yeah... Because knowing that will definitely improve your skills at operating a vehicle....

What a retarded climate we live in.
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2010, 07:51:28 pm »
Quote from: Mattesa on July 28, 2010, 02:45:18 pm

What a retarded climate we live in.

LOL.  Yes. 
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Re: Feature: Learning from the professionals at the track
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2010, 04:43:18 pm »
I learned the old fashion way... with parents rwd domestic tank car on hard-packed snow-covered logging roads*  :)  same laws of physics apply.

* one 4x4 and safety line required for cooked corners. modern cars would not survive a run-in with a snowbank with all that plastic.
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