[z28barnett]

I am interested in taking a 2-5 day race driving school. Road racing holds the most interest for me.

I have done a little checking, Bob B. looks interesting, Skip Barber, and so on.

I live in Missouri, so central part of the country is easier for me to get to.

Anyone have sugggestions or horror stories about the schools?

The insurance on the schools cars is also a factor, some will cover you and others just limit the out of pocket to 4-6K kinda expensive. It is like HMO's are running driving schools.

I put the Koni DA's on, so now I would like to be able to use them. :drive:

Thanks

Z28

[jrummi]

I've been to a Skip Barber 1 day race school at Laguna, Bragg-Smith 3 day school at spring mountain, and Jim Russell Advanced 3 day course at Sears. I would have to say by far the most fun and bang for the buck was the Bragg-Smith 3 day corvette school, Excellent seat time, very reasonable price, great instruction and an amazing track!

Second place has to be the Skip Barber program, I only took an intro class but it had really good instruction and it was a lot of fun, I would like to go back for an advanced 2 day sometime... The Russell school I took was the advanced not the regular 3 day,,, it was good but to tell you the truth I can't give them a very good review. Instructors were only,,, okay and sales staff were kind of pricks!

I assume that everyone on here has some good experience so I would definetly recommend an "advanced" school, the regular 3-4 day programs are meant to teach someone that has little experience, although they are still a ton of fun.

The Bragg-Smith course is under new ownership,,, http://www.springmountainmotorsports.com/ but I hear the same instructors stayed on and the course is still really good. Their advanced 2 day is $1900 and their standard 3 day is $2350. I would totally inquire with them,,, you might even be able to switch between C6 Z51's and C5 ZO6's. If you want a more extreme course they also have a radical(the car) school, not sure about the cost.