This programme is a shortened version of our widely 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 and informative 4-hour programme that combines the use of both public road and off-road driving environments. On a wide section of airfield runway we lead you through a series of fascinating and informative vehicle handling disciplines that give you the opportunity to explore the characteristics of your particular car. This is a well-organised and structured hour long session in a controlled environment where you can explore the causes of oversteer, understeer, how to prevent skidding and 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 that occur 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 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 session there is an informative and enlightening 3-hour period of advanced 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 a new level of confidence, not only in the capabilities of your car, but also with confidence in your 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, they 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.

Advanced road driving isn’t about achieving a high speed, as it is about how to drive in an appropriate manner and to develop your skills to an advanced level so that no matter what the driving environment you will always be in a position to deal effectively with anything that you encounter on the road and to know how to remain in control.

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