When a motor manufacturer builds cars, particularly high performance cars and sports cars, what will be the most important criteria the cars will need to meet? It is true the cars will need to have all the latest automotive technology in terms of the performance of their engines and pass the car safety test, but the main concern will be whether it will be good enough to sell well.

Sports Cars & Other Fast Cars

Sports cars and other fast cars need to look exciting enough for you to want to buy one. Performance cars and sports cars actually need to be visually stunning, mainly because they are suppose to be fast cars and therefore need to look as if they are driving at speed at twice their capability, even when parked in the car park. High performance cars and sports cars often owe their development to racing cars, perhaps from the British Touring Car series, where technology and design are tested under extreme track driving conditions, and this even filters down into ordinary family cars too. Definitely, fast cars need to look fast, be fast and to appear as every inch a racing car, but with number plates.

So, if there is so much excitement surrounding performance cars and sports cars with highly tuned powerful engines, why is it that anything to do with tuning up your skills as the driver, to get more out of the car, has to be so deathly boring?

The trouble is that anything to do with road driver training has gained a reputation as being, well - sissy. It’s that driving lesson mentality thing and that is enough to turn anyone off and even have them drifting off to sleep. That is why it is always so easy to put up such a good argument as to why we don’t need driver training, even if that training is a high performance driving course. Road driver training beyond the test usually is boring, as well as often being patronising and condescending, which isn’t what you want. Not as an experienced driver.

Why Do I Need Advice On How To Drive My Car?

You are going to need something, because having a powerful car it would help if you had some powerful skills to go with it, so as to tune yourself up to the same level. Buying a high performance car or sports car doesn’t suddenly inject you with upgraded skills, and you can’t make it up as you go along either. Like your computer, you can only get out what has been put in. Even if you have owned a powerful car before, this one may be quite different.

We estimate that over 80% of people who own a high performance car, sports car or any fast car, will realise less than 35% of its full potential, and when we speak of potential we don't mean reaching its top speed, as any fool can drive fast in a straight line. What we are saying is that around eight out of ten high performance car drivers are living through a period of car ownership during which they are missing out on about 65% of what their car can offer. It’s a bit like owning a beautiful piece of art and never seeing the colours, or having a musical instrument that you never get to play well. That being the case, the only point in owning your high performance car or sports car will be to look good in a traffic queue, or when cruising on a motorway.

At Ride Drive we understand high performance car and sports cars; all cars in fact, and we understand what you want to get from your fast car. Our high performance road driving courses will always provide you with those extra level and often specialist driving skills to understand what it is you drive on the road, and at a much higher level. Fast cars require the fast processing of driver information, and with the development of a higher range of skills, these being different types of skills to that of the standard driver, you can then start to get the best out of your overall driving experience.

So How Does Your Driver Training Work?

All Ride Drive advanced driver training programmes are conducted on a one-to-one basis with you driving your own car. We do this because no two makes of high performance car or sports car will drive the same; and your car is the one that you continue driving thereafter.

When you book a Ride Drive High Performance Driving Course you will very quickly realise that you have embarked upon an exciting and fresh approach to advanced road driving methods that will be aimed at developing a high level of accuracy and smoothness in delivery. The whole package, whichever option you choose, will give you the skills necessary to use your car more effectively within a public road environment, and so gain more from your period of car ownership by producing greater vehicle performance and drivability from behind the wheel. Take cornering at speed, for example.

In a manner that is friendly and understanding we build upon your existing driving skill, preserving all the good stuff that you do and know, before taking you forward to a much more advanced level. We guide you to realising how to make unobtrusive progress by driving more consistently whilst handling the car more smoothly and more effectively. Imagine gliding along the road in a seamless flowing style, and yet without breaking any rules or driving in an anti-social or inappropriate manner. Not only that, but the style of driving will actually reduce the running costs of your vehicle, and this is achieved by using the road and the performance of the car in a more intellectual manner.

Where Are These Driving Courses?

Whatever advanced driving programme you decide upon, we will make sure that you are assigned a member of our team who is either from or near to your local home area, and who has the most appropriate driving skills and experience to help realise your expectations.

Whilst we cover just about the entire mainland UK, not all additional facilities are available on a national level. To find out what driving courses is available in your area, when you access the information page relating to the performance driver training course that you want there is a link within the menu of that page that will connect you to a page that lists all the areas in which that option is available. If you are not sure, just give us a call or send your enquiry by email.

Which Driving Course Should I Choose?

As you can see there are many different high performance driving course options to choose from, and it is important that you take time to read about the content of each so as to understand what they have to offer. You can access this information by clicking on the INFO links that you see next to each.

Whilst choosing the performance driver training course you want you will note there are some that involve purely advanced road driving, and some that combine this with car limit and vehicle handling sessions, these taking place at selected and approved off road venues. We also build in skid pan sessions so that you can learn about skidding, as in skid prevention and skid control techniques, in case you ever find yourself driving on ice.

No doubt your choice will be based upon your available budget, as balanced against the content of the advanced driving programme that may interest you, but whatever you choose, we will make sure that the content will be aimed at what you want to get out of it and be tuned to the type of car that you drive. However, if you don't find exactly what you are looking for, just give us a call and we will see if we can build a bespoke driving course just for you. If you can’t make up your mind we are always happy to advise, and without hitting on you with the hard sell tactics.

Are There Any Motor Insurance Benefits?

Check out our amazing motor insurance discount scheme with Adrian Flux insurance, a motor insurance broker that is one of the biggest operating within the UK and is underwritten by a huge list of well known names within the motor insurance industry.

If you complete a Ride Drive high performance driving course that has a time-span of 8-hours or more, and we have assessed you as representing a low level of insurance risk, by renewing your motor insurance cover with Adrian Flux Insurance, you will be granted as much as 25% discount from what your current provider is asking for. It certainly is a good way to get cheaper car insurance.

How Do I Book My High Performance Course?

There are a number of ways in which you can book your high performance driver training course. This can be by telephone, using the details on the mouse and phone graphic at the bottom of this page, or if you click on that same graphic you will find this is an email link to us. Alternatively, you can go to our published list of performance driver training options and click on the BUY link, which feeds you to a course booking form.

Once we receive the information, including details of the driver training option you want, we will immediately set about allocating one of our advanced driving specialists who will speak with you about available dates.

Can I Buy a Driving Course As a Gift Voucher?

You can buy any of our listed high performance courses as gift vouchers, or you can buy a driving gift voucher that represents a contribution towards the cost of one of our advanced driving options. Whether you are looking for a gift for her, or a gift for him, you can be assured that the gesture will be very well received and the recipient of the gift voucher will be very well looked after. If you tell us what colour, make, model and year of car they drive we will even try to match it with a photograph of a similar car on the front of the gift voucher card.

How Do I Know I am Going To Get Good Service?

If you have not been to us before then you don’t know the answer to that question. However, if you can put your hand on your heart and say it had all been a waste of time we will tell you to tear up your invoice. You don’t make payment until afterwards anyway, so you have always got control over the quality, and you only have to look at the customer feedback we get to know this will never be a worry.

When you come to us with a high performance car the input you receive will be from a police class one trained advanced driver, who will be an individual who will have driven performance cars on the road in more extreme conditions, and under more stressful circumstances, than you are likely to see. Not only that, but all of our team of advanced driving specialists are absolutely passionate about driving, especially about sports cars, performance cars, or any cars, whether they are fast cars or otherwise. Their enthusiasm is infectious and they will understand where you are and what you need, and in that way, will develop your ability to make sure that you get your very best out of your Ride Drive high performance driving course.

The Most Effective Performance Accessory You Can Buy

If you want to get the maximum performance from your yourself as a driver to match the potential of the car you drive there is no better way to achieve it other than to complete a Ride Drive high performance driving course, as it is by far the most effective performance modification you can buy for a car. What makes it an even better investment is the ease in which it can be transferred from one vehicle to another, without there being a need for special tools or complicated fitting instructions. Driver training will be the best thing you will ever buy for a car, and even if yours is not a high performance car, once you have been to us, it certainly will go a lot better than it did before.