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Drifting & Over Grip Limit Handling

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.

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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

clientdrifting2 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.

Information
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

Caterham 7 Specific: Min/max height 5’0/6’4 Max weight of 18 stone.

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.

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Gift Driving Experience - Half Day

Our driving experience days are guaranteed to be different to anything you may have tried before!

Drive a track prepared Subaru Impreza, Caterham 7 or Porsche Boxster on a circuit at the limit under full instruction. A fantastic introduction to the secrets of fast lap times and ultimate car control. One to one continuous tuition with a qualified instructor. Reaching speeds in excess of 120 MPH experience the challenging circuits of the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, including the legendary Alpine circuit.

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No waiting in queues or sharing the car.

This is a genuine one on one adrenalin packed full two hours plus training experience in the car behind the wheel with your dedicated instructor.

After the all important safety briefing you will be driving the various circuits at Millbrook learning racing techniques from your instructor as you drive. You will truly get an extraordinary value for money experience where you spend your time learning, not watching and waiting.

This experience is a great introduction to the range of courses on offer from CAT Driver Training. Ideal as a gift, as a start to your track day training or just as a great experience. Want to make a weekend of your experience? Details of local accommodation can be found here.

The Millbrook Proving Ground is a unique facility designed and run by General Motors for the testing of vehicles by the motor industry. It offers race track facilities - the ideal driver training environment. It is not open to the general public and access can only be via motor industry approved professionals.

Information
Duration: 3 hours
Driving Time: 2 hours
No. of Trainees: 1
Location: Millbrook
Price: £499 driving either the Subaru Impreza or Caterham 7 & £595 in the Porsche Boxster
Refreshments included

Note; Caterham 7 Specific: Min/max height 5’2/6’3 Max weight of 18 stone

Please call or email Jo Hoad in the office on 01234 757633 to book your Gift Experience Course.

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My wife chose the course as a gift. She researched extensively and went for the best course, not the cheapest.

- Matthew Taylor

This course was great fun! It was physically MUCH HARDER than I expected. It really helps develop car control skills and is incredible fun!"

- Soni Pone

I had an unforgettable day. I have been on a few of the Car Experience days (Silverstone etc) and absolutely nothing comes close to what you learn and do yourself with the car by the end. I was a bit worried the cost and the amount of time would not be enough but, I couldn't have done anymore than what we did and I would have paid double what I did. The teaching is invaluable and I now have some knowledge of grip, throttle and steering to really achieve a drift. The feeling is un-rivalled and Colin allows you to really push the car and yourself, until you 'get it'. Most of the other days I have been on with others are rushed and extremely controlled and there is no way you can learn from that. If you are a car enthusiast and want to learn how Jeremy Clarkson does all those power slides - the drifting course is an absolute must! But, assume you are an amateur and listen to years of experience to get the most out of it"

- Steve Adams

The experience was fantastic - very well organised, all procedures were explained thoroughly. I was quite nervous at the start but Colin was a brilliant instructor and above all made the day so much fun!"

- Jo Neville

Excellent day."

- Richard Davenport

I cannot recommend this experience enough. The level of thought given by Colin and his team to the mechanics of driving is extraordinary. Simple stuff that genuinely changes the way you view each part of driving a car and how you can better predict a car's behaviour."

- Andrew Healy

I've had plenty of 20 minute sessions on track days, but the problem with those is they aren't long enough, and they're delivered by racing drivers - and the characteristics that make you a good racing driver (ego & aggression) make you a very poor teacher. Colin describes in detail the point of an exercise, then you repeat it until you properly understand what the car is doing underneath you, with pauses for further explanation, on both sides." - Hugh Davies

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