Comparing Race Driving Schools

[hound dog]

If you want to do just one day wait and catch a cobra club track day. You'll get some seat time, maybe get an instructor to ride with you, but no real race instruction. If you take the Skip Barber or Panoz school you'll get some real concentrated instructor/track time, but you'd better be in a hurry because it's all going to be over in a couple of days. But for my nickle I decided to go with the NASA high performance driving events. You can't get an instructor to ride with you in the cobra unless you have a roll bar for each of you and the "ride follow" technique is a maybe. What I did was go out and buy an '88 TRANS AM GTA (I'd rather tear up a $2,500 car than a $38,000 Unique cobra) for a track car and just let it rip. You won't become a race driver in a weekend, but over a period of time you can develop your skills to where you will be able to drive with the best of them. NASA also has a division going in Texas and runs at the Texas Motor Speedway occasionally. So, I'd recommend NASA for good instruction, run at your own pace classes, and long term value. I don't think you'll regret it and you can sell the track car when you're done. Or maybe even keep it and race it
h dog