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I have an opportunity to attend a 2 day car control class @ skip barber at Sebring, next week. It's not too expensive (gift from my wife), and closer to home than other venues...

Apparently it's on Miata Cup cars, there are very few people enrolled, so it would be good one on one instruction. It involves lots of skid pad, brutal lane changes, some auto-x type stuff...

I'm hesitating based on the content, I hope it's not "designed for 16 year olds who just got their license" . I have roughly 12+ years of 3 or 4 track days a year, most of them in an old 911 with no ABS, and while I'm certainly not God's gift to racing (far from it), I have more experience with threshold braking, weight transfer, heel and toe than your average Corolla driver...

On the flip side, DEs are not very good at teaching you "car control" per se, since the emphasis is on "the line", maintaining control and not putting a wheel off or God forbid spin the car ( & get black flagged)...

I was thinking that putting a miata cup car sideways for a couple of days might be fun, but I HATE autoX type courses, and not sure how useful the rest of the program will be. I'm sure I'll learn something, don't get me wrong, just looking for bang for the buck. I can do 5 Driver Ed events for the same money ;-) Or maybe a Rally school in Ocala, I think.. Sideways all the time... Opinions on Skip BArber, the car control class, that sort of stuff ??

Thx !