Spent a day with Andy on his car limits driver training day and it is without doubt the best fun I've had in the Z since owning it. Andy is not only a great driver but also a great coach and starts the day by getting you spinning due to your (my) bad technique going through the high speed bend. You then progress through a series of exercises to really understand what the car is doing, learning how to be feather light with the controls (such as steering through the high speed bend at 70mph with only one little finger) and then slip angles and feeling when the car is changing grip levels. All this is on an airfield where my 14 spins over the day can't get me into any trouble or hit anything solid.
The afternoon involves a sprint circuit with using the brake as you turn in to rotate the rear into the bend allowing faster entry and exit speeds and throughout the day the car without the DTC is a revelation. It's not a snappy monster but with the right instruction the car is enormous fun, very happy to oversteer on power but also fully controllable (although when Andy shows you how not to do it you can also see that without the DTC it could spit you into a hedge instantly if you don't respect what the car wants to do and control it within that envelope).
By the close of the day the high speed bend was fully controllable at at entry speed of 85mph (I span it at 55mph at the start of the day) and on the entry exit exercise it seemed for me an ideal entry speed to the high speed bend was 65mph to allow an exit speed of 90mph.
I can't recommend this course enough. Forget fiddling with tyre choice, springs, super vs normal unleaded, etc. 10 minutes with Andy will show you how much better the car is than you (I) am and how some training from a real expert will make you much faster and safer at the same time. Top marks :driving:
The afternoon involves a sprint circuit with using the brake as you turn in to rotate the rear into the bend allowing faster entry and exit speeds and throughout the day the car without the DTC is a revelation. It's not a snappy monster but with the right instruction the car is enormous fun, very happy to oversteer on power but also fully controllable (although when Andy shows you how not to do it you can also see that without the DTC it could spit you into a hedge instantly if you don't respect what the car wants to do and control it within that envelope).
By the close of the day the high speed bend was fully controllable at at entry speed of 85mph (I span it at 55mph at the start of the day) and on the entry exit exercise it seemed for me an ideal entry speed to the high speed bend was 65mph to allow an exit speed of 90mph.
I can't recommend this course enough. Forget fiddling with tyre choice, springs, super vs normal unleaded, etc. 10 minutes with Andy will show you how much better the car is than you (I) am and how some training from a real expert will make you much faster and safer at the same time. Top marks :driving:
oke: the time it took to write all that you could have found that out with one simple Google search.
