text: SonnIts done I completed the days on Friday and it was pretty good I learned a lot and hopefully am a little smoother and faster now The total cost was for the day school which I extended to days at USD I paid dollars for insurance still a k deductible Hotel was the Wild Horse Pass Sheraton at a Bondurant rate of a night and this is a nice hotel Looks like Disney designed it I flew there on Sun Country for bucks returnnnDay nnDay was class room braking drills lane change drills and heel and toe drills No track time but drills This was annoying me at the time because it looked like no track time till after lunch on day and that did not strike me as a lot of track time The drills were basically illustrating steering the car with brake and throttle inputs spin recovery in the special Caddy and getting used to the car They also have an oval with an increasing radius turn and a constant radius turn for practising heel and toe and trail braking Bondurant is huge into trail braking and when you see the instructors do the oval then it is pretty impressivennThe cars were C vettes with less than miles on the clock Very fast bhp but almost completely stock except for corbeau seats a pt harness performance friction high temp pads and good year eagle tires The stock pedal position meant I could not heel and toe at all well in them The throttle pedal is in a different zip code than the brake and is high when you are on the brake I had a lot of trouble down shifting as a result Most people were managing just fine so I think this was just me as far as pedals go but I would use sneakers rather than racing shoes no matter whatnnDay nnSkid car day and this was fun Driving in an oval pattern and a figure of as the instructor using the outboard wheels to induce varying degrees of oversteer and understeer The importance of vision and smooth pedal inputs were pretty clear here and it was fun all aroundnnWe went to the oval in the morning but I almost wrecked the car in a tire wall basically because I over focused on downshifting and given my difficulties and having the instructor in the car with me I brain farted and was lucky to escape with just a dusting I switched to my clogs Keens I kid you not in the afternoon and shifting was much easier than in my racing shoesnnWe went to the track in the afternoon on the medium circuit with the carosel and the lake loop and now it becomes a lot more fun The racing suits that are provided are kart suits which were uncomfortable in the heat I used my Sparco XL suit on the following days and it is a TON better and for the money I guess it should bennThe afternoon sessions are where the drills before started to make sense I needed to smooth the pedal inputs and trail brake more I was focusing on my turn in point rather than looking through to the apex This meant I was overslowing the car and then was unable to trail the brakes most of the way around to the apex I improved at this steadily but I am no where near as good as the instructors who drive the vette like a momentum car in to the turns Pretty coolnnDay nnThey did some skid car again and then ran the same circuit as the day before They opened the full track in the afternoon which is pretty manic Couple of elevation changes and you can almost get to th gear The vette is a pretty powerful car and you can definitely start to feel the whole car under your right foot exiting corners I got better at vision lighter braking into turns for higher entry speeds and extending trail braking times I got better opening up the steering at apex and then using the throttle to push the car out to track out etc This became a lot of fun after a while We got around hours of track time this day I was doing a lot better towards the end and was hanging with a PCA instructor doing laps so it was fun seeing where he was catching me and where I was pulling away and it evened out of course as the laps piled onnnDay nnSwitched to a Formula Ford lbs bhp and then just did laps again for the whole day Maybe hours of track time on day Cars were very fast through the corners and you can use all the gears on the full track but I did not try to grab th and just worked on better trail braking carrying more speed in to the turns and going faster out of turns with gas The instructor again was wicked fast sometimes a gear higher than even the fast guys in the class We did two race starts and a restart in the afternoon to do all the SCCA stuffnnClass wise I was in the middle part of it I think There were guys from Bridgestone tire test drivers who were very fast Then there was an older guy who could hang with them Then there was myself and or others and we were about the same The class was people altogether