Good High Performance Driving/Racing School

[Jester]

Does anyone know of a good drivers training school for mid-engine cars (ie: NSX and/or Porsche Boxster

) in the Northwest? I would love to attend one sometime, but the closer the better (less travelling expense). I want to know how to really DRIVE my car and really enjoy my time on the track. Please let me know if you have experienced any, or heard good/bad things about any. Thanks in advance.

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2001 Porsche Boxster
1997 Mustang GT (selling)
1995 Mustang V6 (selling)
Dreams of Future NSX

 

[Lud]

Autocrossing is a good, safe, legal way to get a feel for how a car reacts to different situations. It's also cheap. Autocrosses are also held all over the place so travel shouldn't be a big problem. The thing I hate about autocrossing is that you have to sit around all day for a total of 3-5 minutes of actual driving time.

 

[David]

Autoweek publishes an anual directory of driving schools and I believe they list them by region. You might check with them and see if you can get the list. It might even be on their website.

 

[David]

Just checked the stie. Go to http://www.autoweek.com/ and click on 'driving schools'.

 

[Schatten]

Jester - how is that free boxster holding up? I see you want to squeeze out all the handling limits in the car and yourself.

local autox's are a great place to start, other than that, just look for tracks that have DE's (driver education events).

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2001 S2000
http://www.buymeaferrari.com

 

[nsx1164]

I'd contact the local PCA chapter (Porsche Club of America) and start there. The local BMWCCA also probably does these. Figure about $300 for a weekend school where you'll get about 3 hours of track time. I've attended schools with both clubs and are pretty happy with them.

Semi-pro schools like TrackTime cost about double that, although you get a little more time (approx 4 hours for a weekend school) and more consistent, structured instruction.

The "pro" schools (Barber, Russell, etc) get you more track time, but the $$ start to ramp up - figure $500 or more per day

Once you get more experience, the 'bang for the buck' deal are the lapping days (sometimes called test-and-tune). For about $150 or so per day, you get 4+ hours of tracktime.

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Manuel C
93 NSX S/B #394
93 300CE
93 NH750