The Y03PM option is an exciting and informative 8-hour day that has the same content as the full-day advanced road driving programme (S02PM), but with the addition of a visit to one of our approved skid prevention and control facilities. By completing this option it will allow you to experience the opportunity of not only developing your road driving skills to a higher level of accuracy and smoothness, but also to give you the 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.

The day gives you a mix of different road driving environments and will help you to develop your road driving skills to a level whereby every jourrney you make can be completed with confidence and ease. It will certainly make you more aware of what if happening around you and how much of it is actually within your control. You also develop a closer driver and machine relationship with your car so that can always realise the very best from your ownership experience.


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.

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.

By gaining a better understanding of your car, and of how to use it effectively on the road, you can use those skills to improve your overall personal performance and ability.  Unlike many other 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

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

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