Bertil Roos

[emayer]

Great question.

In large part, much of that which is taught in DE is reinforced in the school but with way more seat time.  These lower powered "momentum" cars readily expose weaknesses in technique.  They have no nannies whatsoever.  Truth be told, I was able to experiment more since I wasn't worried about balling up my own car. 

In addition, there are several other aspects taught:

Ocular driving.  The technique involves training ourselves to look way down the track.  It permits a much less hurried approach to driving, a proactive/ anticipatory rather than reactive way of getting around the track.  This is reinforced with their slide cars, which are vehicles with modified rear suspensions.  They essentially induce a tail slide every time you take a corner.  I was all over the place in the beginning, by the end of the course I was casually driving at speed giving medical advice to the instructor as though this were any ordinary car.  Pretty cool!

Drafting and Passing exercises.  Passing was permitted throughout the track.  While most of us may not go on to race, the techniques are useful in DE for those up against higher powered cars.

Race strategy.  The training included race starts, qualifying and two races.  Here again, elements of this can be applied to DE.  Having experienced this I have to say that I'm toying with the idea of renting a car for a race weekend....