Day 1 & 2 Completed, You are Now Driving Confidently at Speed with a Systematic Technique
The emphasis now shifts from focusing on you the driver, to the vehicle you are driving and the circuit you are driving on.
Our objective on this day is to awaken your senses to the dynamic platform you are driving, examining each corner and evaluating the vehicles performance from a steady state driver benchmark. You will enjoy dissecting the Millbrook Handling Circuit and Alpine Loops corner by corner to optimise speed and safety. Unravelling the mysteries associated with optimum lap times you will know what is the fastest line and understand why.
A damper tuning session will see you explore 7 ride and handling evaluation criteria, adjusting the vehicles platform to your driving requirements. By analysing the change in the vehicles characteristics you will optimise your lap time and the vehicles drivability.
Introducing circuit focused techniques such as trail braking, left foot braking, heel and toe and reference points, each discipline builds your preparation for your finale to the Academy Programme - driving on circuit. Are you ready?
Your instructor will be looking for consistent flawless laps against the clock around the challenging Millbrook Handling Circuit - all within 200ths of a second of each other. Consistency is king. Only when you can drive consistently can you work out how to go faster.
The day ends with an over grip limit and skid correction session in our track prepared Caterham 7. Great fun and confidence inspiring, an exciting exploration into the world of over grip limit mastery and control.
Duration: 1 day
Driving Time: 5 hours
No. of Trainees: 1 or 2 - at your request
Location: Millbrook
Price: 1:1 basis £1125 using your car £1250 using CAT vehicles (Subaru/Caterham) £1350 (Boxster)
Price: 2:1 basis £590 pp using your car £700 pp using CAT vehicles (Subaru/Caterham) £795 (Boxster)
Lunch and refreshments included
You must have completed the Grip Limit course before you can take part in the Optimisation course.
Academy Programme day 1 - Performance
Academy Programme day 2 - Grip Limit
Academy Programme day 3 - Optimisation
Academy Programme day 4 - On Circuit
Academy Programme day 5 - Racing
Please contact Jo Hoad on 01234 757633 to discuss your requirements and book your Academy Programme.
One of the Most Challenging Days You will Spend Behind the Wheel
Our emphasis on your development through unique motor industry training techniques separates CAT from any other driver training company. Test engineers drive with unparalleled precision and comfort at grip limit. The Grip Limit course held at the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground has been designed around core motor industry training exercises - advancing your road and circuit skills to a professional level.
Morning Session - Indy Circuit
Dedicated slalom and lane change exercises develop your skills against the clock in the following areas:
- Optimising grip from a standing start
- Body posture
- Seating position
- Observation
- Linear steering inputs
- Spacial awareness
- Threshold braking
- Grip limit identification
- Robotic isolation
- Understeer and oversteer identification and control and
- The relationship between pedal speed and vehicle balance
You will explore how to correct an oversteering vehicle at speed at grip limit, working on the relationship between vehicle yaw rate and counter steer input, and as importantly what to do with the gas pedal when correcting oversteer.
Through varying damper settings, you evaluate the dynamic change of the vehicles platform at grip limit, promoting your awareness and understanding of the dynamic messages relayed to the driver at speed. These often ignored coaching scenarios give you the skills to improve lap time, safety and driving enjoyment.
Afternoon Session - Sprint Circuit
The large run off areas at Bruntingthorpe allow you to explore high speed cornering techniques at grip limit in safety. Negotiating turns at speeds in excess of 100MPH, you will achieve and master the skill of true grip limit cornering. Optimum apex speed is your goal but how do you achieve it? You will dissect the corner from the braking zone to the exit phase, balancing control inputs with platform balance and speed, lap after lap until you are comfortable and relaxed at the limit of adhesion.
You will leave this day having advanced your comfort and capability at grip limit.
Due to the nature of the exercises and the aggressive effect of the airfield surface on tyres, it is mandatory to use CAT vehicles for the majority of our training activities at Bruntingthorpe. The last hour of training can be carried out in your own car if you would like to.
Duration: 1 day
Driving Time: 6 hours
No. of Trainees: 1
Location: Bruntingthorpe
Price: 1:1 basis £1425 using CAT vehicles
Lunch and refreshments included
You must have completed the Performance Driver Course before you can take part in the Grip Limit Course.
Academy Programme day 1 - Performance
Academy Programme day 2 - Grip Limit
Academy Programme day 3 - Optimisation
Academy Programme day 4 - On Circuit
Academy Programme day 5 - Racing
Please contact Jo Hoad on 01234 757633 to discuss your requirements and book your Academy Programme.
Learn the Secrets & Master Ultimate Car Control
You will learn the secrets and master over limit handling and ultimate car control. You will understand and practice the building blocks of controlling a vehicle at and beyond its limit of adhesion.
The course itinerary has been carefully crafted, promoting confidence at grip limit. Gravel and tarmac rally drivers, racing drivers, track day drivers, drifters, advanced road drivers and driving coaches have all enjoyed and benefited from this unique coaching experience.
- Slalom
- Slalom Drift
- Figure of Eight Long, with braking weight transfer exercise
- Figure of Eight Short, with braking weight transfer exercise
- Drifting a single cone
- Figure of Eight Transitional drift
- Oversteer/Understeer correction & recovery
- Drifting a circle, large radius up to 40m
Your training session will include presentations on:
- Understeer
- Oversteer
- Lift off Oversteer
- Roll Oversteer
- Weight transfer
- How a tyre grips the road
- Identifying grip limit
- Pendulum effect
- Vehicle dynamic balance
Plus you will learn a few unique CAT drifting secrets. There is no comparable course available. Over the last 3 years over 300 Drifting & Over Grip Limit Handling Courses have been delivered by our instructors. Helping drivers to improve their stage and lap times, gain confidence, as well as increasing their driving pleasure.
This course is truly unique. You will not find this level of dedicated instruction, time in car and course content anywhere else within the UK. So strong is our reputation for improving your limit handling skills, in 2009 our clients travelled from as far afield as Russia and New Zealand to attend this course.
Due to the accelerated mechanical wear when using a vehicle for drifting, CAT recommends you use the CAT Drifting Caterham for this particular training course.
Duration: 3 hours
Driving Time: 2 hours on a 1:1 basis, 1 hour on a 2:1 basis & 40 mins on a 3:1 basis
No. of Trainees: 1, 2 or 3 - at your request
Location: Millbrook
Price: 1:1 basis £640, 2:1 basis £340 pp, 3:1 basis £240 pp using a CAT vehicle
Refreshments included
To learn to drift, please contact Jo Hoad on 01234 757633 to discuss your requirements and book your Drifting & Over Grip Limit Handling Course. If you would like to use your own vehicle please speak with Jo to discuss its suitability.
