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With my 2,000,000+ total miles, and not a chargeable accident since I was a teenager, I still know I need to take my ME to Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch (SM).
Taking my C7 Z06 to SM improved not just my track driving, and also my daily driving. I had driven very powerful cars for many years before I got the 2015 Z06. I was very comfortable in almost every kind of driving, including having spent 15 years driving on snowy winter roads, and even several years driving a tractor-trailer with double boxes through the Rockies. Yet, something about the massive torque of our Z, especially when I was caught out in a driving rain crossing a mile long bridge with steel grates for its roadway in cool weather, informed me I needed professional training to comfortably own that car.
My SM experience parallels the 99.9% who went there, in that it was not just a fantastically fun time, and but most importantly, made me (and from reading the comments of so many others), all of us a better all-around driver. I truly use what I learned there almost every single day I drivers, e.g., not just where I hold my hands on the steering wheel, not just the techniques I learned there, but I there become calm “super-spiritedly carving corners at great speeds.”
Why if I now have that skill level now to handle my 650 HP/650 TQ beast, would I need to go back to SM for a 500 HP Corvette? Because as all my friends have shared, and all I read has clearly told/showed me, driving a ME is a significantly different animal than driving a FE. Not just for turn in, but also for braking, accelerating and daily handling.
I want to learn how to be really good in an ME. No, I will never race it, probably never do even an HPDE, but I often haul the mail on the many, isolated, country-Corvette-curvy-corner, scenic roads that are not only around where I live, but onto which we take many thousand mile, road trips annually.
So Spring Mountain, with your excellent facilities, and your great driving instructors, led by Rick Malone’s gentle and encouraging demeanor which pervades his entire staff and the enitre SM experience, I am looking forward to returning with my ME.
How would you describe your Spring Mountain experience? And if you are planing on getting a ME, will you be going back there?
Taking my C7 Z06 to SM improved not just my track driving, and also my daily driving. I had driven very powerful cars for many years before I got the 2015 Z06. I was very comfortable in almost every kind of driving, including having spent 15 years driving on snowy winter roads, and even several years driving a tractor-trailer with double boxes through the Rockies. Yet, something about the massive torque of our Z, especially when I was caught out in a driving rain crossing a mile long bridge with steel grates for its roadway in cool weather, informed me I needed professional training to comfortably own that car.
My SM experience parallels the 99.9% who went there, in that it was not just a fantastically fun time, and but most importantly, made me (and from reading the comments of so many others), all of us a better all-around driver. I truly use what I learned there almost every single day I drivers, e.g., not just where I hold my hands on the steering wheel, not just the techniques I learned there, but I there become calm “super-spiritedly carving corners at great speeds.”
Why if I now have that skill level now to handle my 650 HP/650 TQ beast, would I need to go back to SM for a 500 HP Corvette? Because as all my friends have shared, and all I read has clearly told/showed me, driving a ME is a significantly different animal than driving a FE. Not just for turn in, but also for braking, accelerating and daily handling.
I want to learn how to be really good in an ME. No, I will never race it, probably never do even an HPDE, but I often haul the mail on the many, isolated, country-Corvette-curvy-corner, scenic roads that are not only around where I live, but onto which we take many thousand mile, road trips annually.
So Spring Mountain, with your excellent facilities, and your great driving instructors, led by Rick Malone’s gentle and encouraging demeanor which pervades his entire staff and the enitre SM experience, I am looking forward to returning with my ME.
How would you describe your Spring Mountain experience? And if you are planing on getting a ME, will you be going back there?
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