HIGHWAY SURVIVAL CLASS FOR TEEN?

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HIGHWAY SURVIVAL CLASS FOR TEEN?

Ken Cemo 05-21-2006, 9:36 PM

Have you thought about sending your 16 year old teenager to a student driving school? It is now a reality for me. I have heard about this School given by Jim Russell Racing Schools at Infineon and checked out the website. It sounds good. Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this school or any other school like this in the No Calif area?

KEN

Re: HIGHWAY SURVIVAL CLASS FOR TEEN?

RandyC 05-24-2006, 1:54 PM

I have done three different schools at Russell but not the Highway Survival class. I wish I knew about it when our daughter was younger. I have watched that class and the reactions during the class while in other forums and it seems to get their attention. The exercises they did during the high performance class had some of the same braking and car control stuff along with the skid car and it all helps. I think I have my wife convinced that it would be helpful for anyone, especially in a high performance car.

2002 Corvette Coupe, with EOC, brake ducts, 6pt harness and fire extinguisher. Still on Street tires.

Re: HIGHWAY SURVIVAL CLASS FOR TEEN?

Robert Craig 05-24-2006, 4:49 PM
My daughter has done both the Jim Russell and the Skip Barber classes. I can wholeheartedly recommend the Skip Barber. It is a full-day class, and they work the kids the whole time. There is no "skid car," but rather they wet down the paddock and the kids practise recovery under real-world conditions. Again and again and again! A much more demanding program than the Jim Russell, which is a half-day course with a skid car (hydraulically-actuated outboard wheels raise the car up, making it more difficult to control, but resembling a car in a skid not at all!).

My daughter confessed that it has already saved her from an accident . . .

Now, if you ask my opinion of the racing courses, it's exactly the opposite. I've taken the advanced courses at both SB and JR, and JR was far and away the better.

Robert.