What did you think of the Boot Camp driving school ?
Although those drivers probably gained some good skills i dont think it will improve thier road driving skills.The ability to drive amongst traffic is more demanding than some cones on a test course.
Also surprised Penny said doing figure of eight manoeuvres around trucks is not repesentive of real world driving ... I see BMW drivers doing this every day on the M25.
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I am just not sure that taking away the confidence of anyone is productive; it may only remove faith in skills already acquired!
For example, what is a "skid"? and how does it differ from a "drift"?
Cheers, Tomo
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The first thing they should have done with the boy-racer was to get him to ditch the baseball cap! Penny Mallory held a slightly wobbly programme together well, I thought.
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Tomo, I think a skid is when one pair of wheels, or one end of the car, slides and a drift, sometimes called a 4 wheel drift, is when the whole car is moving not quite in the direction it is pointing. A skid is loss of control, momentarily, a 4 wheel drift is a controlled manoeuvre; at least it is if a rally driver is doing it!
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Technically that may be correct. However on my local roundabouts, for instance, I can let the tail swing a little on the throttle coming out and it is not out of control. That is only two (rear driven) wheels.
On the programme it seemed to me if the presenters did something like that it was OK, but if anyone else did it was a "skid"!
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Quite right! You skid, but I apply opposite lock...
I think TV programmes should go steady on the lectures when their presenters spend half their time smoking rubber on disused airfields. I can just about excuse P.Mallory, as she tends to be the Voice of Reason, but it doesn't sit very happily with the general programme format, IMHO.
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Hopefully the programme boosted the confidence of the two ladies and had the opposite effect on the over-confident boy racer.
Just a thought, would they have given the boy racer a second chance if he had failed first time?
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