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I want to get on the skid pan with mine! bit of a hand full and I can practice anywhere safely

<GB> wrote:I want to get on the skid pan with mine! bit of a hand full and I can practice anywhere safely

Keep the semis on the front and fit some chinese crap on the rear. Now that would be fun.

Back in the good ol' days.... when Subaru @ Docklands had their skid pan running, they used to provide an Advanced Driver course to customers and it was run by a guy called John. Cannot recall if he was affiliated with DECA, but certainly knew a considerable amount about the Police driver training and the DECA training.

Anyway, was a great day with the morning spent in the theatre at Docklands, and the afternoon on the skid pan. We got to use WRX sedan, WRX Hatch, Mazda 6 and Ford Falcon to compare the AWD with Front and Rear drive. The best of that bunch was the WRX hatch. Superb balance and poise in very slippery conditions and very difficult to induce a spin. Most of the skid pan practice was on Braking and avoiding simultaneously from 60 kph. Then a session without ABS and TCS which surprised most people as they were able to beat the ABS and TCS braking distances with the modulation braking technique. A final session on the skid pan doing circles at up to 60 kph while avoiding understeer and oversteer and maintaining maximum traction and speed. That was fun!

Maybe worth asking Docklands if they are going to bring back the skid pan and driver training? They shut it during the drought despite the use of recycled water due to public perception.

No helmets or fire extinguishers were needed.

Great info thanks!

The MG Club are running a driver training session out at Calder Park on Sat Sep-28.
It consists of low speed (= 60 km/h) braking and manoeuvring around pretend obstacles in the morning, then high speed laps around the race track in the afternoon, with an instructor next to you to start with.

Here's a video of last year's event. (Yes, that's me at 2:30 having a friendly chat with a driver that had been holding me up... )

owen wrote:

<GB> wrote:I want to get on the skid pan with mine! bit of a hand full and I can practice anywhere safely

Keep the semis on the front and fit some chinese crap on the rear. Now that would be fun.

these semis are off theyre shit

Sounds fun. Depending on the cash situation count me in for both, been a while since I've done an advance drivers course, last time was not very insightful but it was fun to throw my old vk around the track

Cool : ill be making a few calls soon

Hi all. I am new to this forum. I hope I am posting at right place. Actually, I want to buy a Jeep for and want to make myself independent. But before buying jeep, it is important to learn driving it. Can anybody here suggest me some good driver training course and school in town?

Dear necro spam bot...

Between Buddah and this bot we may as well make this Club Jeep.

On a completely serious, non spam bot note, has there been any development on this topic?

Yeah, there was a DECT day in Sheppardton, driver training and skidpan, as promoted by the WRX Club and organized IIRC by the Porsche Club.
I had to miss it last year but will be more prepared this year.

Nothing yet more locally to Melbourne, perhaps its time to follow up with RTR...