[s-cars] Kids and cars

[Taka Mizutani]

The Skip Barber teen course or something similar is required attendance if
you can afford it.
Learning the right techniques and not learning bad habits will pay huge
dividends down the road.

I can't even count the number of times that I've been able to avoid
accidently because I was able
to draw upon past autocross and track driving experience and I don't have
that much of that kind
of experience.

I know that being able to handle a hydroplaning car at 45mph in a heavy rain
with the car getting
loose and having a car do a 270 literally less than 5 car lengths in front
of me, all this happening
at the same time, would not have been possible had I never spent time doing
auto-x and track events.

I know that having this experience, I was able to avoid major damage to a
rental car on an icy road
(crunched the grille and nothing else, super lucky). Those are only two
instances.

Taka

On 10/12/05, Mark Strangways <Strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> It's about time someone talked about training vs. surviving a crash...
> I have been holding my tongue for a while now.
>
> Mark
>