Har-ray

Just back from Ron Fellows. Awesome experience!! Has anyone else noticed yourself a liitle more aggressive on the throttle and taking turns faster after the driving course?

Ramler

I was probably already too aggressive but now I am confident. Plus I now know how to make the car handle better. Learned loads about the capabilities.

Bill Dearborn

It isn't being more aggressive it is just realizing you don't have to putt putt around like your Grandmother told you had to. You now know cars can go around corners faster without tipping over and they can accelerate fairly rapidly while still being operated sanely and with an eye to fuel consumption. The slow drivers all around you have no idea how incompetent level of their car handling skills and you are advised to be more aware of them so you can avoid them as they will not be expecting you to drive the car in an expeditious manner which means they will make further errors in judgement as to when to pull into a lane, when to attempt to pull away from a stop sign, etc.

Bill

Iconic

The desire to drive cloverleafs hard enough that you have to throttle steer.

wiiltn

lol, I have found myself doing this since getting back for COS.

Co-Vette

All of the above, and a strange compulsion to line up behind and chase Camaros I see on the street.

mdiiulio

This

The challenge is how long can I hold 1g?

pickleseimer

I don't think I've gotten more aggressive on the street, but I will say I see the turns in the road in an entirely different perspective, to the point where just in normal driving you notice how others set up ahead of you - you can tell who is thinking about what they're doing and all the others.

I'm also more confident in adverse conditions. This past week was driving some wet curvy roads between Somerset, Pa and Cumberland in the Cruze. One semi-blind right curve surprised me and I realized I could be a tad fast for the conditions. Instead of jumping on the brakes, just applied a bit of brake to balance the car slightly forward and it went right through the turn. Those wet skid-pad exercises stuck with me after more than two years since the school.

davepl

I'm probably the opposite. Kind of like learning to ride a motorcycle made me a more paranoid automobile driver.

I really like the track environment and just don't trust the road surfaces and other drivers on public roads. So I actually never push any limits on the street except raw acceleration. I'm probably seriously in the minority but I'm not a big fan of "driving in Mexico" or "canyon carving" or that stuff, I'd rather be at the track.

Not a judgment, just a story.

Har-ray

LOL

Z06NJ

Absolutely! I was scared chicken when I first bought the car; I'll never forget I was afraid to even give it gas driving 2 hours back home from CT.

As soon as I got back from Spring Mountain, that's where I discovered 650 HP is not enough and now I want to add 200 to 300 more HP by upgrading the supercharger when the warranty is up shortly.

I should have never went to SM. Just kidding

Har-ray

I want to ask the governor of my state to install turn-in and apex cones on all entrance and exit ramps of all turnpikes and highways.

ExRedRacer

Awesome stuff....

I'm going there next Monday and Tuesday...can't wait.

Har-ray

Intense, awesome, and tons of fun; all at the same time! All of the instructors went above and beyond the call of duty. Professional, personable, and knowledgeable. On a scale of 1-10, I would give the course an 11.

VH Vette

Jmcdude

When I'm going into a turn with speed, I now do most of my braking before I enter the turn, roll through it and back on the throttle sooner

JonMN

After Ron Fellows I noticed two main changes--First, I went from occasionally using M mode in my A8 to using it 100% of the time. Second, I take corners and S curves a little different now, tending to pick my points and smooth them out (within the lines, of course)


RF was a lot of fun!

RFBHD

I can get the car in launch mode in seconds.......first time passengers..pass out

cv67

Found after hitting a track my driving on the st was tame never got temped to screw around. Roads and tracks are entirely different.
The proverbial idiot trying to show their sKi1lz on the st is super annoying.

socalspringmountain

you all crack me up!
It is good to see that we had an effect on your daily commutes!
Until you experience the track, with a professional behind the wheel, there just is no way to fully realize what a car is capable of!
it's been almost 20 years since I was taken around a road course for the first time, in a c4 corvette, and I remember when we went into the chicane (on our north/south track) and thinking, there is no way, absolutely no way, we are making it through here...but the instructor straightened out the esses, broke, downshifted (heel toe of course) broke for turn 4 and came out of there howling...it was surreal and I was hooked, plus never drove the same again!
Lucky enough to have worked my way up the chain here, and put in thousands of laps, in all kinds of cars. Just blessed!
I'll add that on the road, I have avoided, conservatively, about 50 wrecks, due to visual scanning, seeing situations before they develop and car control, all learned here.
keep the stories coming! I'll share with our staff.

Thanks to all of you who have come and continue to come!