How many people here have actually gone to racing school

Interesting that some of Fchat's most vociferous racing EXPERTS don't claim to have GONE to racing school. Hmmmmm.....

I believe that it is more important to invest in oneself versus spending money on some racing gizmo that may make the car go faster. I also believe that a good professional driver can take a regular 360 around the track much faster than most amateurs could take a 360 CS or 430 or even a 599 perhaps.

I remember when Derek Bell was my instructor driving my 355 F1 GTS around the track... how fast and how smoothe his was. Effortless really. While I was so uptight that you couldn't get a pin up my @SS with a sledgehammer while he was watching me "drive".

Or just try to follow a really good driver on the track in the same car. A very humbling experience I can assure you.

Knowing our own limitations is an important part of life IMHO.

 

Really?

I thought just the opposite: Most of the usual suspects have checkedn in here and stated they did racing school and/or racing.

 

+1

 

No road racing classes, but I did attend an Evolution AutoX class and have attended a civilian high performance driving course at the East Texas Police Academy.

I don't understand the implied requirement in the original post. Does one have to be able to throw 87 MPH to discuss baseball?

 

No, but you probably should at least have played softball once in your life.

Kinda like non Ferrari owners talking about the cars...

 

Nice screen shot from your "video game" in your avatar.

 

I went to a track once.... It was pouring down rain but there was some idiot out there anyway
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Yes.

Sorta like the biggest self-proclaimed experts on raising children NEVER HAD ANY. It's alot tougher than it looks.

 

I just fell off the couch! (sorry, no armchair) LOL

 

I prefer the Eames lounger, actually.

 

In 85 I went to the Jim Russel school in Canada at Mt. Treblant and since the Canadian GP was cancelled that year I did a 2 and 3 day school. Got to drive the F1 course one of the days.
In 88 at Laguna Seca I did the California Superbike School 1/2 day and full day. In 89 I did the same. Then I went back for a 2 day advanced school,
unfourtionately I on did a day and a half before I had the unpleasent distiction of have the worst crash in Subebike school history. Tip when you travel make sure your wife has credit cards with her in her name.
I cancelled our Amex when my wife had to live in a safe house for battered
wives for almost a month. I was out of it for a months. I saw Amex's ad for cards being replaced lost on vacation, the banks turned my wife away. The hotel was booked so she had to leave.
Gave up my dream of racing after that.

stephen

 

I said at the time, Juan shouldn't have done that. Here's an OT question that I think at least 5 of you can answer. How is the RX8 beating the Porsches this year in Grand Am GT1.

 

+1 - Went in 2002 - great time, had a blast. Brought my wife so I ran double time, everyone else had a buddy who split time with them.

 

I know it's the 1st full season in Rolex GT. Is it a new rule that bumped them up this year or factory support. They didn't run like that in the past, did they? Exciting ending at Homestead.

 

...and they won yesterday

 

Thank you, somebody gets it

Pete from the armchair

 

(Humor) i stayed at a Holiday Inn while doing Skippy, so guesss that makes me a Super Expert. Schumacher can kiss my rear axle ;-)

 

I've done the 4-day Bondurant class but the best day of instruction I've ever had was just yesterday. Our lead instructor was this guy:
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A friend and I did the Bobby Ore Motorsports beginner stunt driving school. Did it help me with racing? No, but I can slide a car sideways into a parking spot with reasonable accuracy and most of all its lots of fun. How many people can say they have been in a car while its on two wheels... on purpose?


Gene

 

I used to do that a lot as a kid with my cart. Would be fun to do it with a real car.

 

That's funny because some of the most unexperienced/unknowledgeable Ferrari people are many of the owners I've met!

EDIT: BTW, I did Skippy at Laguna, my "home track" so to speak!