Skid Pan/Skid School Training
Discussion
otolith said:
The Silverstone facility is good. I don't know for sure whether they will let you take your own car out, but when I was there I said it would be interesting to drive my Elise there and the instructor didn't seem to think it would be a problem.
I like the kick-plate system they have there, because you have to correct a skid that you didn't initiate - when you know in advance which way the car is going to go, and you have deliberately put in the input which causes it, removing it is a lot easier.
There is also the Prodrive facility at Kenilworth. Did a couple of days there years ago with the RX-8 owners club. They've got some low friction surfaces for skid training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ayL_8ZfWU
I did the low-friction surface at Porsche Silverstone in my BMW. About half of the cars on that day were non-Porsche. That was 2012, so they may have changed since then. I like the kick-plate system they have there, because you have to correct a skid that you didn't initiate - when you know in advance which way the car is going to go, and you have deliberately put in the input which causes it, removing it is a lot easier.
There is also the Prodrive facility at Kenilworth. Did a couple of days there years ago with the RX-8 owners club. They've got some low friction surfaces for skid training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ayL_8ZfWU
otolith said:
The Silverstone facility is good. I don't know for sure whether they will let you take your own car out, but when I was there I said it would be interesting to drive my Elise there and the instructor didn't seem to think it would be a problem.
I like the kick-plate system they have there, because you have to correct a skid that you didn't initiate - when you know in advance which way the car is going to go, and you have deliberately put in the input which causes it, removing it is a lot easier.
There is also the Prodrive facility at Kenilworth. Did a couple of days there years ago with the RX-8 owners club. They've got some low friction surfaces for skid training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ayL_8ZfWU
I found the kick plate section at the Porsche track particularly good, and probably could have spent a whole morning on it alone.I like the kick-plate system they have there, because you have to correct a skid that you didn't initiate - when you know in advance which way the car is going to go, and you have deliberately put in the input which causes it, removing it is a lot easier.
There is also the Prodrive facility at Kenilworth. Did a couple of days there years ago with the RX-8 owners club. They've got some low friction surfaces for skid training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ayL_8ZfWU
One of the problems I had (which according to my instructor, is quite common) is that if and when as car goes out of control, many drivers tend to `freeze' or lock up (it was certainly something which I tended to do) although my particular mistake tended to be to make the correct initial control input, but `then' freeze up.
By spending some time on the kick plate, I learned to remain `loose' so that after putting in the correct control input, I was ready to put in further inputs to catch whatever the car was going to do next.
I was a long way from getting it right every time, but the difference in my response to `fully' correcting a skid between when I arrived there, and when I came out, was worth the
cost of attending the event on its own.
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