Spec me a supercar, £180-200k-ish, inexpensive insurance...

[Hatter The Mad]

... and training!

(partly joke)

Now that I have your attention:

If someone wanted to buy a high performance exotic car, how could they go about being trained to drive it properly?

Is it a case of finding a professional driver to take you on a trackday until you get to grips, or is there a named service for this kind of thing? Personally, I wouldn't like the idea of buying my car then 'learning' how to control and handle a high performance car through trial and £180k error.

I have often wondered about it. One day, like most people, I'd love to own an exotic.. but not before I knew how to drive it properly; for other people's safety, my safety, and ultimately so I can actually get the thrills and value from the machine.

I understand there are plenty of people who buy their HP exotics to show off around 30mph towns and one-way city systems, but what about the real drivers - where do they learn their tricks?

If I went out to buy one tomorrow, where could I go to be taught how to tame the beast?

 

[Morba]

Go and drive them, or work your way up the supercar ladder.


Random note: my iPhone changes supercar to Superbad! Stupid phone.

 

[DM]

Thats the man to teach you there http://www.bernardaubry.com/

 

[sigma]

Buy a Radical first and get some tuition.

 

[MikeHiow]

If I was that way inclined, the locally organised track days we have regularly have Mr. Vergers on hand for tuition - given people's experience of him, and him holding the top two spots on 'ring record in the SR8 and then the SR8LM, he sounds like just the kind of chap I'd want to teach me to drive.

 

[Fr0dders]

You get some driver tuition

http://www.carlimits.com/

 

[Shad]

Another vote for Car Limits, Andy Walsh is a legend

 

[peterattheboro]

I think most people would work their way up to a high performance car.

For example, Focus ST, BMW M3, 911 Carrera 2, 911 Turbo, Ferrari F430.

Thats for people who have had money over a number of years and haven't just won the lottery or received a large sum of inheritance.

(That order is what I'd follow if I had the money to do so)

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

modern day supercars are easier to drive than lets say an everyday toyota.

 

[Fr0dders]

i wouldn't go that far.

and not all "supercars" are the same. Some are designed to be very accessible and easy to drive, other "supercars" are more like race cars and not easier to drive than a toyota at all.

 

[DM]

And some people no matter what they buy still cant drive, like meeeeeee

 

[spaz]

Would be amazed if which ever manufacturer you're buying from wouldn't have some sort of driver program either free with the car or for a fee if requested at some sort of proving ground or track e.g. Millbrook/Silverstone etc

 

[DM]

Would be amazed if which ever manufacturer you're buying from wouldn't have some sort of driver program either free with the car or for a fee if requested at some sort of proving ground or track e.g. Millbrook/Silverstone etc

Most of them have but they never seem to be at a handy time or place.

 

[Jono8]

I think most people would work their way up to a high performance car.

For example, Focus ST, BMW M3, 911 Carrera 2, 911 Turbo, Ferrari F430.

Thats for people who have had money over a number of years and haven't just won the lottery or received a large sum of inheritance.

(That order is what I'd follow if I had the money to do so)

Got the first one but i think it is going to be a long time before a BMW M3 is on the cards

I agree, i think it is wise to work your way up semi-gradually as i think jumping into a super car from a 1.0l hatch back would be pushing ones luck a bit.

 

[mjt]

BMW do 'Ring sessions in E92 M3s for just over a grand for a weekend.
They also do M training courses, where you learn how to drive your own M car properly.

Then they do driving courses for peasants without M cars. Those are quite good, I enjoyed myself. Couldn't drift for **** though, I blame the auto 118d ¬_¬
I perfected my drifting in the recent snow