[s-cars] Driving Schools in the Midwest?

[Chad Clark]

Aaron,

The q-club(I'm sorry, I should be politically correct and say ACNA) does 
some ice racing on the lake at Georgetown in addition to the Steamboat 
event. This event on the lake will get your feet wet, no pun intended, with 
the low coefficient of friction conditions. Then you can step up to the 
Steamboat event, or vise-versa, it really doesn't make much difference.

Most here don't need to hear me preach again of how important I think a 
school like Steamboat is for young and old. As Pizzo mentioned, it's by far 
the best environment to experiment with your car, pushing your limits, the 
cars limits in a controlled environment and finding how good quattro can 
really be.

Every year I attend Steamboat, I can't believe the growing number of new 
younger drivers I see. Parents, such as those of you on this list with 15-16 
yr olds, that have wisely enrolled your child in this driving school is 
money well spent. Last year we had a 16 year old girl in a '93 90 
quattro(btw, perfect 16 yr old car IMO) that, to put it lightly, barely knew 
the difference between the gas and brake pedal. By the end of the two days, 
she had the skills to drive out of oversteer and understeer situations. Not 
to mention knowing the difference between cadence, locking and threshold 
braking, ABS and non ABS situations, off camber and positive camber car 
control, etc, all on solid ice/packed snow.

I wish my parents had enrolled me in such a school 19 years ago when I got 
my license. God knows I needed it!

Chad


>From: "Aaron Taylor" <aaront at cox-internet.com>
>To: "'Toborg Michael (AC-SM/ESC3) *'" <Michael.Toborg at us.bosch.com>,"'Chris 
>Holinger'" <cholinger at mac.com>, <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Driving Schools in the Midwest?
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:22:04 -0600
>
>Anybody know of any schools in the Rockies besides steamboat?
>Thanks
>A
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Toborg Michael
>(AC-SM/ESC3) *
>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:09 PM
>To: Chris Holinger; s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Driving Schools in the Midwest?
>
>Mid Ohio has some drivers schools that Bosch uses for our chassis
>control engineers. Skip Barber operates from Road America up in
>wisconsin, Beaverun near Pittsburgh must have some driver training
>things going on. There was an article in C&D about an engineering
>vehicle dynamics/driving course that SAE puts on there. That gets more
>into technical suspension design and vehicle dynamics than driver
>training though.
>Any track day will have instructors that ride along with you, Or there
>is also Ice racing up in minnesota and northern Michigan during the
>winter. Very cheap if you don't break anything on a snow bank... I rode
>passenger in WRX with studded tires on a frozen lake course -that was
>supernatural.
>Mid-O might be the best bet if it is anywhere near you.
>http://www.midohio.com/school/overview/
>I was at skip barber a few years ago, and the people I know that whent
>to mid-O rated it better than Skip Barber. I'm sure that depends on what
>class you take.
>....Seat time is the best mod to make you faster. Some dirt trackin'
>would be pretty cool to...
>-Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Chris Holinger
>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:39 PM
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: [s-cars] Driving Schools in the Midwest?
>
>Checking out the Team O'Neil website made me start salivating for an
>experience like that... Would love to hook my Dad (and myself) up for a
>Christmas gift.  Anybody know of some good schools in the Midwest?
>
>Chris
>
>
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