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dateCreated	2013-09-14 00:00:00 (xsd:dateTime)
itemReviewed	Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
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rev:text	Bondurant School of High Performance Driving - 5 Stars: While it has been some time since I was here, I felt it really deserved a review. This was a great experience. I worked at a company where we tried to have something special to do each year with the senior people - sort of a team building project that could also be lots of fun ... we chose Bondurant Racing School one year. While programs and cars change at the Bondurant School from time to time, when we went it was all Ford and we took the 2-Day Grand Prix Specialty course. Our introduction was the same as others have mentioned...we arrived at the 15-turn track and the first thing the instructor does after saving hello is put us in an unassuming 15-seat passenger van to drive around the track and see what we would be learning for the two days...or so he said. We put on our seatbelts and then he drove us around pretty fast...sloshing us from side to side on the seats (memo to file - don't spend the previous night getting loaded in celebration for the first day because you will need all your senses)...and then he drove it again at his top end to show us how fast one can drive if they are in control ... what a great intro to the course. Now we had our challenge for the two day event. We spent a half-day in the classroom learning the physics of high performance driving - where to enter a turn...when to brake...when to get off and on the accelerator...the handling differences between front-wheel drive cars and rear-wheel drive machines. Then it was out to the skid track to feel the physics - the instructor used the outriders (lifters) on a car to lift different corners at high speed - the challenge was to see how fast you could do circles or figure-eights before losing control. We did this together and then one by one with the instructor - so we had a lot of personal one-on-one time (memo to file - Dramamine). After that we went to a slalom course where it started as a single lane and split into a Y - each one controlled with a stop light. At the start of the course we were invited to see how much wheel spin we could generate on starting - in fact they egged us on and, of course, with high performance tires on it was hard to get much spin...but it did get our speed up for this lesson on the Y strip. The challenge here was to approach the lights as fast as possible and slam on the brakes at a marked point, and steer the car into the lane with the green light - which did not appear until the last second. The lesson was that you can steer a car even when in a full ABS brake lockup...something you really don't know until you try it. End of day one. Day two was mostly on the 15-turn road course. We strapped on our cars and went out one by one with the instructor again - for a little personal time the first time around the course. After each had done this, we each had the chance to have the course to ourselves and see how fast we could get around with no competition. After that our group was given access to race each other (you can buy insurance to pay for any damage you cause). We had been given the course rules beforehand so racing against each other was a lot of fun and not dangerous. This was probably the most fun - the chance to put into practice all we had learned so far. We ended the day with the opportunity to drive open-wheeled cars on the skills track, and then on the road course. The difference between the two types of race cars was amazing, and fun to try. Getting in the open-wheeled cars is a bit claustrophobic inasmuch as you wear a helmet with facemask in this equipment and the cockpit is a tight fit. The Bondurant School is expensive (from $500 to $5,000 per person depending on lessons and days) but tons of fun. It is a great event to do with a group. Just make sure you like the smell of oil and exhaust and spinning tires/burning rubber - this is a racing enterprise and all the smells you'll run into constantly remind you of it. But it was a singular experience to be able to rip the tires off a car and drive all out. Great lessons in safety, and how to drive fast and safely.
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