This programme is a shortened version of our full-day event (Y03PM) and provides a mix of advanced road driving input with a skid prevention and control session. By completing this option it will allow you the opportunity of beginning the development of your road driving skills to a higher level of accuracy and smoothness, and will also give you additioanl confidence to drive your car in poor road and weather conditions. Depending upon the area of the country in which you complete the programme you may either use a wet surface skidpan, or on an all-weather facility with a specially prepared skid car.

Becoming involved in a skid situation is something that many drivers have never experienced, and yet it is perhaps one of the things they fear will happen to them the most.  In reality a skid is actually a symptom of something else that is wrong, and that something will usually be a lack of understanding of the demands a driver will place upon a vehicle when driving it, or what he or she may expect from it when and where they turn the steering wheel, apply the brake or put their foot on the accelerator.

With a Ride Drive skid prevention and control programme you will become very much aware of all of the issues that will provoke a car into a skid situation, and you will understand there are really only four reasons as to why a car will skid, as you get to experience each of them.  Through completing this programme it is most unlikely that in the future you will become involved in a skid, but it is perhaps best to know what to do anyway – just in case.

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.

N.B. Ride Drive do not run purely skid prevention and control courses, and all skid car sessions are delivered as an integral part of an advanced road driving programme.

Obviously, with only 4-hours to play with, an hour of which is spent on the skid control session, there is only so much that we can fit into the time and still do justice to what we have to offer. However, we do pack as much into the time as we can, and without making you feel under pressure or as though being rushed.

The aim of our involvement with you here is to enhance your existing level of skill and take you forward to a new level of confidence and ability. 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

SKIDDING SESSION

• ABS familiarization
• Tyre grip trade-off
• The causes of skidding
• Collision avoidance
• Power lift oversteer
• Cornering forces
• Vehicle balance and control
• Understeer an oversteer control
• Braking and deceleration techniques