Lessons from other regions/sponsors?

[Brian Minkin]

I have been to High Performance Driving Schools that incorporate the No Brakes excercise as part of the training.  Never at a PCA event. Usually on the third session of the day you are sent out under yellow for the 1st half of the session and an instructor is in the lead to set the pace.  You are instructed to keep 5 or 6 car lengths between cars and the instructor slowly picks up the pace.  I have learned a lot about throttle steering and rotating the car using the throttle (off and then on) in these sessions.  As the pace picks up you do see some of the drivers touch the brakes occasionally but for the most part everyone gains a lot of good experience from this.  This really teaches you what smooth is all about. This was done in intermediate and advanced groups not the beginners.