Spanners

I did a 'Don Palmer' day last year - EXCELLENT in terms of fun and learning. Only three cars, so a lot of one to one.

We did the 'put car into massive skid and let go' trick. The car is much better at driving itself out of trouble than I will ever be. But. And for me it is a BIG but - bigger even than that big woman I saw yesterday - when you do this hands off stuff you are on a track without trees/lampposts/cyclists/kerbs and other cars heading for you. It is one thing recovering from a skid on an empty track, a different thing when there are obstacles to avoid. Better to avoid the 'big' skid in the first place - which these training days help you to do.

Spanners

The Don Palmer days are in your own car. All the days I have heard of are in your own car.

Wears the tyres a bit though

MB

Cheers,

I know what you mean about the difference between road and track, if you end up in trouble on a road, there's so little space that generally you're going to hit something! Its just that chap in this post had an incident at 30 mph, which you have a fair chance of controlling rather than at speed. Knowing how to save the car gives you a bit of a fighting chance.

MB

S2000 SM

Sounds like a classic over-correction induced spin (been there and wrote my previous S off)... and this means of correction is precisely what I was taught on my Don Palmer day.

It worked a treat on the track... no idea if I'd have the reaction time (or balls) to do it real world

Sorry to hear of your smash mate. Glad you are ok.

Wiggs

There isn't a service station that close to where I was. I certainly wasn't even pushing the car, changing gears well before the VTEC range and just taking a nice steady drive back home.

I think what has been said about some of the advanced driving courses just about sums it up though, especially the part about releasing the wheel, it's all well and good on a big open track, but on the road you haven't got the space. I suppose you're not 100% on the ball either when driving on the road at normal speed, you wont be expecting anything unusual and you're reaction times may be a little slow to do anything about it.

m8mbl: Hope you get the car sorted soon, a reshell might not be so bad. The timescale involved in sorting the car is silly though and it's summer when you want the car the most! It's now been a week for me and my insurance company haven't sent anyone out to look at the car yet, it's just sat in a yard somewhere.

markda

I think it probably is! The hood isn't fitting very well in places, those ripples may suggest a seriously bent chassis.

The main thing is you walked away and learnt by your mistake, rather than paid for your mistake.

m8mbl

hi, everyone.. sorry it taken me this long... anyway... I got the answer from the insurance company. they have offically reported the car as a total loss...

they have offered me a brand new S2000 but i have declined the offer and taken the settlement as my gap insurance covers the rest.... sorry fellas but i am going to get something a little lower... dont kno how i am gonna cope...


anyways thanks for support... take care...

baptistsan

Sorry to hear this.

I can understand it though.