About the Advanced Skid Pan Experience

The advanced skid pan experience includes the same content as the 1hr experience plus the following:

• Driving dynamics - the causes of under and oversteer.
• How the driver influences these states and best corrective action.
• What electronic stability control systems are actually doing to a car to help keep it under control.
• Intensive driver tuition helping you consistently control a sliding car, including braking and obstacle avoidance.
• Understanding the limitations of electronic stability systems in adverse conditions.

Unlike many venues, we use modern front and rear wheel drive cars so that you will understand and feel how the electronic safety systems, fitted as standard to most cars, will help in adverse conditions, but also how to control a sliding car when all the systems are switched off relying on pure driver skill. We feel this will give you the best preparation for anything the roads and weather may throw at you!

• This skid pan experience is a one hour session on the skid pan driving both the MINI Cooper and Toyota GT86.
• Your experience will start with a 10 minute briefing and short demonstration. The remaining time (approx. 50 minutes per driver) is all driving.
• Your skid pan instructor will be outside giving detailed advice, instruction and encouragement via a two way radio.
• Each session will run with up to four participants, two in each car as driver and passenger.
• Driver and passenger will swap places half way through the session in each car.
• After both have driven one car, they will swap into the other car.
• At the end of the session all participants would have had equal time as a driver and passenger in the MINI Cooper and Toyota GT86.

Driving Content

• Straight line slalom, weight transfer and direction change controlling under and oversteer.
• Prolonged control of under and oversteer on 45m diameter circle.
• Exercises will be experienced with all electronic stability systems switched on for first run.
• Time trial to end session.