by Turtlez » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:55 am
Hey Daniel,
I think at the moment we have 9 confirmed. Will work out the numbers when it all washes up.
So we have from 8 - 12:30 I believe, last skid pan day we had 9 or 10 guys. we had 4 10 minute runs I think the last one was 15 minutes a few left early, and the guys at fifth gear said the other group had not turned up so we got to drive till 1pm.
First run of the day is with an instructor (usually have 2 cars going and 2 instructors) they will sit in the passenger side and ask you questions, as well as show you how to get the car sideways, and what to do to keep the car drifting/ sliding. They will also show you how to control the car. The instructors will show you either how to control the car for when your on the street in case you get into trouble, and then they can show you how to join the corners to drift the whole course.
Simply they jump in the car you sit in first gear and use the hand brake while turning to lock the front wheels and sent the car into a spin, Its a lot of fun and gets the adrenaline pumping. As mentioned before it is roughly 10 minutes on the pan, and roughly 4 runs, so all up 40 minutes. If we have more guys might be a little less.
If your willing to come there is always a spot, I think capping this at 12 would be the best option.
Lastly, the skid pan is covered in water so it makes for sliding all the more fun, and barely uses any tread on your tyres, also don't go to the pan with bald/very low treaded tyres as they wont grip and you wont have as much fun, the video I shot had 3 brand new tyres well with 1000km of road use, and one tyre close to wear, but that was rear right. It was a lot of fun.