This programme is a shortened version of our acclaimed full-day Advanced Handling Skills and Road Driving Experience (S03PM), or Handling Skills Day as we call it for short.

This is an exciting, informative and action packed 4-hour programme that combines the use of both public road and off-road driving environments. On a wide section of runway, you will be led through a series of fascinating and informative vehicle handling disciplines that will give you the opportunity to explore the handling characteristics of your particular car. This option not only gives you a mix of all types of road driving environments, but also contains a well-organised and sensibility structured hour long period away from the road where you can explore the causes of oversteer, 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 your use of the driving controls. These exercises will 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 likely to give to you before it lets go?

In addition to the off-road section of the programme, there is an informative and enlightening 3-hour period of road driving input that will incorporate a mix of many types of road driving environments. By drawing upon the knowledge and experience you will have acquired from the vehicle handling exercises you will find that you can drive with new found confidence, not only in the capabilities of your car, but also with confidence in your own ability as a driver.

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.

It will be through the completion of this programme that you develop a very close driver and machine relationship with your car in that you will end the day by working with it, rather than being at odds with it. This means that can always realise the very best from it in terms of your ownership experience.

Advanced driving isn’t about achieving a top speed, as it is more intelligent than that. It is about developing your ability to a level whereby no matter what the driving environment, or the speed at which you are travelling, you will always be in a position to deal effectively with anything that you encounter on the road, and to remain both safe and in control.

If you are serious about developing your car control and overall road driving skills, why not expand this driving option to a full day and so take advantage of the fantastic insurance discount deal that Ride Drive has brokered with a major British insurance agent? By completing a Ride Drive advanced driving programme of 8-hours or more, and if you are assessed as being a low risk catagory driver, you can claim a 25% reduction in your motor insurance costs, not just for one year, but for life.

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.

• 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