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PERFORMANCE DRIVING SCHOOL
If you are new to the world of Porsche or an experienced driver but unsure of your vehicle's capabilities and your ability to control and enjoy it, the Lone Star Region offers its Performance Driving School. The instructional activity provides you with survivability skills that apply both to everyday driving and the track environment. We want you to be comfortable and enjoy your vehicle, no matter what situation arises.
Performance Driving is a fun filled and exciting car control clinic. It is one of the few LSR activities open to licensed drivers below the age of 18, and it can be an excellent activity for a parent and a new driver. Participants will be paired with a group of experienced instructors, who will lead you through a day of thrilling discovery in a parking-lot course. This is not a racing school. This event teaches you the skills and techniques necessary to properly control your high-performance sports car. You will have fun while learning to be a safer and more competent driver.
Course Content
The first day school includes a combination of classroom instruction and individual behind-the-wheel clinics. Food and drinks are provided. Participants will also receive an event t-shirt. The optional second day will be spent on the driving course.
The first day of the skill clinic usually include:
- Wet Skid Pad
- Pitch and Catch
- Accident Avoidance
- Apex Drill
- Slalom
The second day of PDS is a Composite Driving Course (CDC) to test and improve your driving skills. All of the individual components from the Saturday Performance Driving School are incorporated into a practice autocross. This gives both novices and veteran drivers a fun course to play on and confidence to participate in our other track events. However, PDS is not a prerequisite to either Drivers Education or Autocross.
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Schedule
PDS and CDC's are scheduled as follows in 2010:
- June 19 (Click on the date for details)
- November 13 & 14
The event is usually held at the Houston Police Academy. Gates open at 7:30 am and lasts until around 3:30 pm.
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Registration
The event is limited to 30 participants. You may sign up at any time at www.clubregistration.net, once the course is posted at the registration website. You can share a car, but please register individually.
Cost will be $100 per driver for Saturday PDS students. It is free for PDS instructors/volunteers. There is a special reduced price for young (16 - 18) drivers.
The Composite Driving Course is $25 for Saturday students, and $50 for everyone else. If an Autocross is subsituted for the CDC, regular AX pricing will apply.
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More information
Since the driving exercises are performed at low speeds and under instruction, participants are not required to wear helmets.
All cars must have a Technical Inspection, which will be performed at the event location.
Click here for a typical track layout for the driving exercises and Composite Driving Course.
Find additional information in the:
Click here for a slide show of a PDS and CDC.
Any Questions? Contact Joost Perquin , the PDS Chairman.
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