I've done about 3k miles in my Z4, mostly longer drives around Wales. It's brilliant, I absolutely love it but I sometimes it terrifies me. It's my first sporty, rwd car and I don't know if I would be able to handle it if it got out of control. What's a good way to improve my driving skills? Can anybody recommend any driving schools, preferably on track, that teach handling a car like that? Or are there any videos on YT worth watching?
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Anglesey circuit do a number of driving courses e.g. skid control winter driving; Car control; rear wheel drive plus in addition to the race ards and training courses. Prices seem to start at around £135. Not done any courses there but it is a great circuit. Depending on where you are, other circuits will probably have something similar. https://www.angleseycircuit.co.uk/holding/performance-driving-centre/
Probably those I have done are long gone. Prodrive circuit and skid pan, Bill Gwynne Rally school, Instructors on trackdays. All were worth it. Rally school days and skid pan training were far more useful and fun than track work, for me. Track work is good if you want to go fast on track though.
Liverpool
I've not done any since my Don Palmer days 20 years ago...
www.donpalmer.co.uk
There are still some ex-police 'Road Craft' type courses around, and I think CAT driver training still runs different levels from basic car control to extreme performance courses.
catdrivertraining.co.uk
...but others are available...
www.total-car-control.co.uk
www.drivingmasters.uk
A day on a drift pan, or drift circuit can help with car control where you've initiated the slide/drift, but doesn't necessarily translate to a wet Welsh moors road with sheep running out.
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There are still some ex-police 'Road Craft' type courses around, and I think CAT driver training still runs different levels from basic car control to extreme performance courses.
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...but others are available...
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A day on a drift pan, or drift circuit can help with car control where you've initiated the slide/drift, but doesn't necessarily translate to a wet Welsh moors road with sheep running out.
Shropshire, UK
Another I've seen mentioned on here is Andy Walsh's drive limits days, https://www.awdrivertraining.co.uk/. Video of a Caterham taking part
Oof, painfully accurate
Having aquaplated at National speed limit, ish, on a few bumpy C roads, I disagree. Without instinctively knowing what to do I would have been in ditch or a wall afew times. Wet driving and even on snow, when I could find some, was always something I practiced, back when I could still drive quickly.
Sorry, I wasn't clear.
I don't mean the skid pans where you have the car on a dolly, or a very low grip surface to practice catching a unwanted slip/slide...I was talking more about the low surface tracks where the aim is to learn to drift it around a course.