When I bought a Porsche Cayman five years ago I took it to a racing school at a track to take high performance driver education with it. Which was a blast and I recommend everyone who can afford to do so to do so, even if its just renting the school’s cars, it’s useful education to have even for regular defensive driving
But more to the point: here I and my husband were doing all the various exercises in our well equipped sports car, and someone brought their Dodge Caravan and was absolutely tearing it up out there. Going HARD once we got to actual lapping, and keeping a shocking amount of speed compared to all the other sports cars there.
Dude was the coolest, most badass mofo there in my opinion. And he genuinely learned a LOT about where his minivan’s limits were, most certainly leaving a more skilled driver than when he arrived that morning
On old friend I haven’t been in touch with for years used to race a slightly souped-up Jetta. The air intake was a crucial upgrade. Anyway she did some serious ice lake racing in Massachusetts back in the day. Any reasonably well built vehicle can do some amazing stuff in the right hands with simple upgrades.
When I bought a Porsche Cayman five years ago I took it to a racing school at a track to take high performance driver education with it. Which was a blast and I recommend everyone who can afford to do so to do so, even if its just renting the school’s cars, it’s useful education to have even for regular defensive driving
But more to the point: here I and my husband were doing all the various exercises in our well equipped sports car, and someone brought their Dodge Caravan and was absolutely tearing it up out there. Going HARD once we got to actual lapping, and keeping a shocking amount of speed compared to all the other sports cars there.
Dude was the coolest, most badass mofo there in my opinion. And he genuinely learned a LOT about where his minivan’s limits were, most certainly leaving a more skilled driver than when he arrived that morning
That is amazing actually.
On old friend I haven’t been in touch with for years used to race a slightly souped-up Jetta. The air intake was a crucial upgrade. Anyway she did some serious ice lake racing in Massachusetts back in the day. Any reasonably well built vehicle can do some amazing stuff in the right hands with simple upgrades.