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I road race actively through scca, i attended a three day scca school, have been to numerous open track days and have also tried out autocrossing. Hows that for experience? pretty sure i would able to deal with a dangerous situation better than most people on the road

BSR accident avoidance at Summit point raceway. LOADS of fun and VERY useful...if you drive a RWD...

Ive done the Skip Barber 3 day racing school. Raced karts since I was 9 yrs old(im almost 21) I am currently racing 125cc shifterkarts this summer competing in the CART stars of tommorow, hoping to enter the Barber-Dodge race series in the future. Ive also done a track day at Homestead Motor Speedway along with an autox.

It helps that my father is a retired Indycar driver

Bondurant is presently located just east of Phoenix AZ at Firebird Raceway. Years ago it was located at Sears Point Raceway (and for a long time too) but Sears Point is in Northern California, about an hour's drive north of San Francisco.

A related note to the thread, we all spend lots of money buying stuff we think will make our cars faster, but I can guarantee you that 95% of the time, the most effective way of making your car faster, is to make you the driver, better. And as a benefit, it will carry-over into any car you drive.

sears point is no where near vegas.

damn near san francisco though

-jason

High school driver's ed

Bondurant 3-day HPD course (at Firebird in AZ).. Great stuff, and the 20% off courtesy of SVT was great as well.

I did a winter driving school which taught me a lot about vehicle dynamics as they are exaggerated by ice and snow. I am also losing a bit of weight. Less weight maks car go faster

Escape/Evasion In an Urban Warfare Area, USN Class. Does that count ?

I used to live in Mesa, AZ and over there I had a buddy I grew up with who went to that instruction course at the Bondurant Driving School, plus he also autocrosses as much as he can in his 5.0 GT. And he taught me how to correctly handle a car. He taught me initially on a non-ABS equipped car (that 5.0 RWD) first, to learn fundamentals. And then we switched over and started practicing with my ABS equipped FWD Contour. He really liked the way the Contour handles when we were practicing out on the canyon roads of NorthernAZ/SouthernUT. I used to practice all the time, and getting fairly good, but now I live in Washington, and there are less low-traffic deserted highways to go practice on