How we define car control
We offer a detailed car control course for both people that have never been on track before and more advanced drivers. This will build confidence in your driving skills and prepare you for track and race days, all within a controlled exclusive environment with no other cars around.
Our advance driving course also caters for drivers who are looking to fine tune and master the smooth balance of a car, understand what is going to happen next and work on consistency. We will take you out of your comfort zone and experience spinning a car, drifting, which in time will give you better reactions and awareness on track.
The following activities have been designed to gain a better feel for the car, learn skid control, plus improve the hand-eye-foot co-ordination. The day will be tailored based on your level of experience.
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Basic car control techniques
1. Doughnut
The activity’s focus is drifting a car in a circle round a cone. This is one of the easiest car control techniques. Once mastered, the front wheel will pivot round the cone with a controlled throttle and steering technique.
2. Larger Doughnut
The same as a normal doughnut, but aiming to drift the car round a larger circle, using second gear. Therefore the speed of the drift will be a bit faster and it requires a skilled throttle balance and steering action.
3. Figure of Eight
Always a favourite amongst customers, this exercise focuses on understanding the need for more or less power to help with the angle of the car on track. For example, if the car is straighten up too early coming out of the slide, then more power and wheel spin will cause the rear of the car to step out and give you the angle you require to continue the drift, and vice versa. If you feel the drift is getting too fast and angle too much, reduce the power and the angle of the car will reduce.
4. Slalom
The slalom will see you try to drift the car through a line of cones using weight transfer and throttle to help set you up for the relevant angle. It will also improve your reactions as you will need to be very quick with the steering to catch the slide and avoid spinning.
5. Slalom into Doughnut
The aim is to complete a full slalom line of drifting through the cones, at the end of the line place the car into a complete doughnut, then return back down the slalom line of cones. This means now you can go up and down the slalom continuously.
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Advanced car control techniques
6. Slalom with Doughnuts round every cone
For the next step in the slalom activity, the car will drift between the cones and into a doughnut round every cone before moving onto the next cone. This exercise is designed to get you thinking and looking ahead for your car position.
7. Doughnut, Figure of Eight, Box Drifting
This is a very technical activity in a small area, ideal for advanced drivers, or drivers who have a good feel for what’s happening underneath them. Start with a doughnut round a cone, then transfer into a figure of eight and drifting round the cone next to it, and so on in a square direction.
8. Doughnut, Figure of Eight, Box Drifting attached to Slalom with Doughnuts
Here we are adding two activities together to make it a long course, seeing how drivers can continually think where they want to place the car and adapt to different shapes and angles within the same sequence.
9. Race Starts
Practice race starts using Formula One Style lights and try to minimise wheel spin for better traction.
10. Against the Clock
A course is available to drive against the clock, using the Formula One lights to start your session, and then driving as fast as you can to register a time.