The Advanced Handling Skills day, as we call it for short, has become by far our most popular advanced driving package and has received very enthusiastic reviews from those that have completed it.

This exciting and informative action packed 8-hour day has the same content as the full-day advanced road driving programme (S02PM), and not only gives you a mix of all types of road driving environments, but has the addition of a visit to one of our approved aerodrome sites. Here, during a well-organised and structured hour long period away from the road, and on a wide section of runway, we lead you through a series of fascinating and informative vehicle handling disciplines that give you the opportunity to explore the handling characteristics and behaviour of your particular car. There will be the opportunity to discover what can cause your car to 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 use of the driving controls and will take your relationship with your car to an even deeper level. 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 it is likely to give you before it lets go? Thsi means that you develop a very close driver and machine relationship with your car in that you will end the day by working in harmony, rather than being at odds with it.

We always say that on the majority of the occasions when 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 and why it behaves the way that it does.

After successfully completing a Ride Drive Advanced Driving Experience you should find that no matter what the driving environment you will always be in a position to deal with anything that you encounter on the road and to know how to remain in control of your vehicle.

Apart from gaining the increased driving ability you gain from completing a Ride Drive Advanced Handling Skills and Road Driving Experience, there is another benefit 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 by making the car flow along smoothly and by accurately reading every bend so that you hardly have to touch the brake, then you have come to the right place.  This is about devloping the skills so as to 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 also about about you gaining a better understanding of how to enhance your skills to improve your 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 choice 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