Supercar training
Discussion
Hi All,
Quick question, mainly to the owners of supercars. I run a driver training business (sorry, cant advertise it here as no dount I will get told off!), anyway we are piloting the idea of offering people the chance to take a days advanced driving course (road based) to make them safer, more skillful drivers.
The purpose of this is they will then receive a certificate at the end which confirms they have done a days driver training, the cars make, model and registration will be recorded on this certificate/document.
This certificate will be "valid" for 12 months. After this time they will be invited for a 2 hour refresher course, where they drive in the same car, basically just as a refresher and to have any tips and pointers provided by one of our trainers.
Once the refresher course has been taken, the certificate/document is signed/renewed for a further 12 months.
The reason behind this, is when the owner comes to sell the car they will have proof that they have taken the time to invest time and effort in to their driving. Driver abuse on very fast, expensive cars is a big issue....A car can be serviced bang on time, at the right garage, using all the right parts...and a service history proves this. But how can you check it has not been driven badly? apart from dents in the bonnet, scrapes etc - you can't.....
We are wanting to see this certificate/document as an essential part to any supercar owners service history...sort of a drivers track record....
This has never been done before, and so may or may not work. Basically I would like your views....
Yes it is great, not sure, or no way.....be blunt - let me know....
The idea is still a bit vague at the moment...
cheers
Quick question, mainly to the owners of supercars. I run a driver training business (sorry, cant advertise it here as no dount I will get told off!), anyway we are piloting the idea of offering people the chance to take a days advanced driving course (road based) to make them safer, more skillful drivers.
The purpose of this is they will then receive a certificate at the end which confirms they have done a days driver training, the cars make, model and registration will be recorded on this certificate/document.
This certificate will be "valid" for 12 months. After this time they will be invited for a 2 hour refresher course, where they drive in the same car, basically just as a refresher and to have any tips and pointers provided by one of our trainers.
Once the refresher course has been taken, the certificate/document is signed/renewed for a further 12 months.
The reason behind this, is when the owner comes to sell the car they will have proof that they have taken the time to invest time and effort in to their driving. Driver abuse on very fast, expensive cars is a big issue....A car can be serviced bang on time, at the right garage, using all the right parts...and a service history proves this. But how can you check it has not been driven badly? apart from dents in the bonnet, scrapes etc - you can't.....
We are wanting to see this certificate/document as an essential part to any supercar owners service history...sort of a drivers track record....
This has never been done before, and so may or may not work. Basically I would like your views....
Yes it is great, not sure, or no way.....be blunt - let me know....
The idea is still a bit vague at the moment...
cheers
There is clearly some merit in what you are proposing. If I were looking to buy such a car direct from an owner, I would certainly try to get to know the owner and his attitude to mechanical sympathy. In such situations I would usually ask the owner to drive the car; one can learn a lot in just a few short miles (e.g. is the oil given time to warm up, are revs matched on gear shifts etc.).
If the owner had taken some form of advanced driver training I would certainly see that as a positive. However, in the same way as the car's paperwork won't tell the whole story, neither will a certificate regarding training taken once. What really matters is how the person drives day in day out, and that's harder to judge.
There is also the issue that the car may have been owned by the person for a few years, and the training is only recent - so what was the driver like before the training?
However, all told I would still find it a net positive. Any car can have its service life dramatically extended by mechanically sympathetic driving, and vice versa. This is especially true for high powered cars where clutches, for example, can be toasted in a few hundred miles.
That said, the presence of a driving certificate would not alter my view of value. It would aid my decision about whether or not to buy. So when you are marketing this idea to owners, I don't think you'll be able to link this to the car's value - I would instead focus on what I have found, which is simply that I get so much more out of these sort of cars with the training that I have had. That's the real selling point of such training.
Cheers
If the owner had taken some form of advanced driver training I would certainly see that as a positive. However, in the same way as the car's paperwork won't tell the whole story, neither will a certificate regarding training taken once. What really matters is how the person drives day in day out, and that's harder to judge.
There is also the issue that the car may have been owned by the person for a few years, and the training is only recent - so what was the driver like before the training?
However, all told I would still find it a net positive. Any car can have its service life dramatically extended by mechanically sympathetic driving, and vice versa. This is especially true for high powered cars where clutches, for example, can be toasted in a few hundred miles.
That said, the presence of a driving certificate would not alter my view of value. It would aid my decision about whether or not to buy. So when you are marketing this idea to owners, I don't think you'll be able to link this to the car's value - I would instead focus on what I have found, which is simply that I get so much more out of these sort of cars with the training that I have had. That's the real selling point of such training.
Cheers
I would have posted this in one of the Super Car forums such as Ferrari/Lamborghini (http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=63&mid=46714)
To be honest I don't think it would make a lot of difference to me as a purchaser, but as an owner I would be interested, especially if it helped my insurance.
To be honest I don't think it would make a lot of difference to me as a purchaser, but as an owner I would be interested, especially if it helped my insurance.
If your local RoADAR group has a suitably open minded observer (ours does), then you can get all the training you want in a year for £20 one off payment. You can do a test too, for independent verification of the effectiveness of the training
If you want to pay more then organisations like Ride-Drive do this sort of thing already
If you want to pay more then the HPC club might be interesting
If OP gets this going I wish them well, but to think they have something new in the market is, imo, a mistake
If you want to pay more then organisations like Ride-Drive do this sort of thing already
If you want to pay more then the HPC club might be interesting
If OP gets this going I wish them well, but to think they have something new in the market is, imo, a mistake
Hi Jez,
crisisjez said:
Where do I sign up my OH as I just bought her a 911tt.
You can already sign up here: www.ridedrive.co.uk/shop-high-performance.htmGassing Station | Advanced Driving | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff