Now we're really moving up a gear with this option, as this is aimed at those who really want to make a serious commitment to the development of their driving skills, and who think seriously about how they will present themselves and their car to the rest of the motoring world.

This double helping Advanced Road Driving Experience, complete with vehicle handling session, is a full two day programme for you to share with your performance car and will give you the skill and the confidence to become at one with whatever it is you drive. The content of the programme is similar to both the Full-Day Advanced Road Driving Experience (S02PM) and the Advanced Handling Skills Day (S03PM) presented as one complete package, but sold at a more economical rate than if booked as two separate sessions.

You may find that you get more benefit from completing the sessions on non-consecutive dates, as the interim period beteen each provides you with the opportunity to practise the techniques you are given. Certainly your allocated Ride Drive advanced driving specilaist will give you plenty to occupy yourself with prior to coming back for the completion of part-2.

For the 1-hour vehicle handling session we use a wide section of runway where you will be led through a series of fascinating and informative set of disciplines that give you the opportunity to explore the behavioural characteristics of your particular car. This will include the identification of both oversteer and understeer, how to prevent skidding and to learn how you can avoid being involved in a collision. This part of your day demonstrates the effects of the different forces that act upon the car in response to the input that you give to it through use of the driving controls. It will be through these exercises that we help you to understand what it is you are asking of your car when you drive it and what you can reasonably expect it to cope with. You will also realise what warnings the car is going to give you before it lets go?

We always say that on the majority of the occasions where crashes happen, particularly those that do not involve another vehicle, are not caused by an incident in itself, but through how the driver will react to that incident. By completing this programme you certainly come to learn how perilous it can be if you do the wrong thing at the wrong time. By the end of the vehicle handling session you will know exactly what your car is doing at all times, why it behaves the way that it does and how to grab the thing by the scruff of the neck and make it do as it is told.

Apart from thrill of completing a Ride Drive Advanced Road Driving Experience there is another benefit attached to it that is well worth considering. Did you realise that Ride Drive has a unique relationship with one of the biggest motor insurance agencies within the UK, one that will reward your success with Ride Drive by offerring you a 25% discount from the cost of your annual premiums? It's true, and not only that, you will go on being rewarded, year after year at the same rate, providing you do not have an acccident that is your fault. All you have to do is to complete a Ride Drive Advanced Driving Experience, that consists of a total of 8-hours or more, be assessed by your Ride Drive coach as representing a low level of risk and 25% discount is yours. If you think that is too good to be true, then don't, because unusually enough the deal is exactly as it is described on the page. CLICK HERE and take a look for yourself.

If you would like to be able to drive a winding rural B-Class road in a manner that has spirit and pace, and be able to do so by accurately reading every bend and overtaking opportunity you encounter so that you hardly have to touch the brake, then you have come to the right place.  This isn’t about driving everywhere at speed, but more about producing a smooth and flowing drive where you may cover the distance efficiently by using accuracy and the intelligent interpretation of your road environment to make unobtrusive progress whilst remaining safe and in control at all times. It is all about you gaining a better understanding of your performance car and how to use it effectively on the road, as well as to develop your skills an dyour overall personal performance as an advanced driver.

Unlike many organisations we are not in the game of looking for square pegs to go into square holes, as we will happily take on people of all shapes and sizes and who have all different levels of expectation and existing ability.  Basically, whilst certain factors will always need to be included, we will always build whatever elements you want to cover into the session so that you will always get the best out of your involvement with us.

If you are wondering what we have to offer, the following list will hopefully give you some insight into what we are able to include within your Advanced Driving Experience,

• Development of advanced observation
• Car stability management
• Power management and control
• Steering methods
• Effective exploitation of gear ratios
• Braking techniques
• Defensive vehicle positioning
• Hazard identification and management
• Bend assessment
• Alternative road positioning methods
• Cornering techniques, which includes the linking of bends
• Acceleration sense
• Overtaking procedures
• Fast road driving (motorways and dual carriageways)
• Third party perception awareness
• Conflict prevention and resolution

VEHICLE HANDLING SESSION

• Emergency braking
• Tyre grip trade-off
• Clutch-drag oversteer (RWD cars)
• Power lift oversteer
• Cornering forces
• Vehicle balance and control
• Understeer an oversteer control and avoidance
• Collision avoidance