djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin) (02/03/86)
I have never been up to Sears Point, but have a friend that has
taken the three day class, and another that took the four day.
The friend who took the three day class, drives a warmed up
Corvette, with COMP/TA's, fast. The guy who took the four day
course used to drive Ferrari SCCA(?) stock races, commutes to work
in a Mustang GT 5.0 and has a '70 Fiat Dino (No, a real one) for fun.
Both are *very* serious about their driving.
My impression is that the one day course is not worth the money. The
big difference between the two and three day courses is that you get to
spend the third day on the track practicing everything that you learned
the first two. Seems worth it. The four day gets you a mixture of
cars, you get to drive the Formula Fords the fourth day, after beating
up on the Mustangs the first three. The feeling is that unless you want to
race, the three day course wins. Price was ~$1k with rental last year,
may have gone up.
Both are *very* happy with the instructors and the equipment. The above-
mentioned Mustangs are 5.0 liter jobs, specially built with full SVO
group race suspensions, beefed up drive trains and Hurst shifters.
Instruction includes oval speed (heel/toe, picking tracks through turns,
etc.), skid pad (90, 180, 360 turns and spin control), and more. I plan
to shell out the bucks, but it only seems worth it if you really care
about your driving skills, and have a car to back you up.
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***dan
{allegra,astrovax,princeton}!fisher!djl
The misplaced (That car sure is rusty!) Californian