text: If you have lots of money or a very very nice dad you can do some pretty cool stuff in life One of the things you can do is drive really fast cars for two days in Arizona Thanks DadnnThe class starts with a classroom lecture about driving really fast This is where you get to size up the other students your competition a father and his yearold son who is about to get the handmedown M when they get home a Stanford student on Spring break disposing some extra book money a Lotus dealer from the UK the driving instructor from a police department a corvette collector The instructor takes this last opportunity to remind students about the optional insurance and how much all the car parts are going to cost you if you wreck them without insurancennAfter the lecture it is time for a tour of the track Students pile into full size vans and buckle up This part was probably the most fun of the whole class Our driver violated about ten different laws of physics behind the wheel of that van I suppose you get good at anything you do every day but he made carving turns in this bigass GM G van seem pretty unconsciousnnThe rest of the class was made up mostly of various exercises in a Corvette Z Almost all of it was at speeds under mph on a large asphalt lot marked off with orange cones slaloms breaking heeltoe shifting a pseudo orange cone racetrack etc We also did one exercise in a specially rigged Cadillac sedan that could simulate front and rear skids on dry pavement nnThe last couple of exercises were more like real racing We used an oval track to practice entering and exiting from turns Finally in the very last exercise we donned helmets and followed the instructor around the real track a couple times That was pretty funnnMy main complaint about the class is with the number of breaks we were taking We seemed to be taking another break every five minutes I am not sure if this was because the cars needed to cool down or what It just felt like we were always just standing around waiting to get back to drivingnnI had a good time but not a great one Even though I was there as a gift from Dad I think the thought of how much money it costs just dampens things If you compare this with the much lower costtosmiles ratio of say gokart driving at the local miniature golf spot it is hard to see the value of it allnnI would recommend this to someone who has more than a little extra money to burn But if this is you I would recommend bringing a few extra hundred dollars to spend on the karts Those things are badass Zero to a hundred to zero in ten seconds I think I would have preferred a kart class to the Corvette one