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No I instruct at Porsche Club Driver Education events. These are a bit different from the Porsche factory PDE in that there are no lead/follows. Every beginning student has their own instructor and is allowed to drive at their own (or instructor dictated) pace. Students move up within five groups based on their skills and at the third (middle) level they may participate without an instructor. They may pass but with a signal from the car in front.
The upper groups are for people like me- club and wanna be racers without big bucks or club racers testing. I've been doing it for about ten years now.
Try to join your local club and check them out- they are terrific fun and a natural way to keep honing your skills after a PDE (cheaper too).
BTW I took one of the first PDEs at Road Atlanta about eight or nine years ago. It was a blast- my instructors were the famous Hurley Haywood and Doc Bundy. I've heard Barber is a fantastic track but I've never been there. If you are a New Yorker NNJC may be your local club and your "home" track would be Watkins Glen. A terrific, fast but unforgiving track in that there is little room for mistakes. We go there every fourth of July.
Last edited by Cairns; 03-22-2007 at 09:03 AM.
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