BMW Driver Training - woo hoo !

[Zeuk in Oz]

Sons # 2 & 3 were booked in for BMW's Advanced Driver Training 1 course at Eastern Creek last Thursday, so I decided to join them.

What a blast - 325i manual E90 with sports suspension. Well worth the entry fee and I hope the kids learnt something - I learnt that my 19 year old is faster around the track than I am ! :D

[Ken35i]

I've read about that. Looks like tons of fun!....and educational ;)
Will do it one day.

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

Its always a bitch when you discover that your children are actually quicker than you are! Suggest you put them in an old Holden and try again,mine was cocky til I put her in an old Healey,sorted her out!

[repenttokyo]

those look like e46's in the front, was it a mix of e90's and e46's?

[GJPinAU]

Get them involved in doing Motorkhana/Supersprints with the car club. Put them back in their place:D

Youngest son found out what understeer was at a driver training day recently and dinged a rim on mother's car, and is now entered in a Motorkhana on the skid pan at Eastern Creek on the 1st of December.

[Zeuk in Oz]

those look like e46's in the front, was it a mix of e90's and e46's?
The 2 front cars are E46 M3s - driven by the instructors. They have a fleet of about 6-8, as far as I can see.

They are just about to change over to the new ( E92 ?) M3 cars.

The next course in Sydney ( ? April 08 ) will have the new M3s.

[Zeuk in Oz]

Get them involved in doing Motorkhana/Supersprints with the car club. Put them back in their place:D

Youngest son found out what understeer was at a driver training day recently and dinged a rim on mother's car, and is now entered in a Motorkhana on the skid pan at Eastern Creek on the 1st of December.
Honestly Greg, I thought the biggest disappointment of the day was the Eastern Creek circuit itself. I had never been to it before.

Is this really the best we can do ?

I did courses at Amaroo and Warwick Farm and preferred Amaroo to Eastern Creek.

Surely for a circuit that is only a few years old we could have done better.

For goodness sake, why couldn't we have constructed a Neurburgring or similar ?

[whiskychaser]

Its always a bitch when you discover that your children are actually quicker than you are! Suggest you put them in an old Holden and try again,mine was cocky til I put her in an old Healey,sorted her out!
Mine can beat me round the circuits on a video game, but ask them to double declutch and they are fkd. Yeah! Proper driving:)

[GJPinAU]

The best we can do is probably Phillip Island but in NSW Oran Park is the favourite with drivers (pity its going)... and then there is Wakefield (yawn) Park.

[rob101]

Mine can beat me round the circuits on a video game, but ask them to double declutch and they are fkd. Yeah! Proper driving:)
I must be the only person able to double clutch that is under 30 I know
most of them can't even drive manual they prefer to say "my mother can't drive manual" and buy an auto certainly they're certainly not capable ofdouble clutching.
A. wtf is your mother driving your car for, i say.
B. My mum practiced on my e28 to brush up on her manual skills before she went to Ireland where their car they drove around in was manual. Why can't your mum take a can of harden up and learn! LOL. God even my gf prefers and buys only manuals LOL:D
I think I must live on Mars because i just don't get why you'd pay the extra money to let a couple of CMOS chips work out what gear i want and how to control a clutch. guess it required effort, instead of a problem which can be solved with money ergo can't be worth it in the minds of most.

[John 535is (Sydney)]

thank god for mum's - mine taught me to drive on a manual '72 GT ford Capri (it was near new then!) HA. John 535is