MOTORSPORT Driver Training. Australian Driving Institute
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AVAILABLE PROGRAMS

Our Motorsport Essentials program should be your first step into the exciting world of Motorsport. This full day program is conducted on public roads and is designed to set you up for repeatable foundations and essential skills that are imperative in Motorsport events.  Once you have mastered these foundations, you will then have the ability to apply these skills at high speeds in the Motorsport Excel-erate Track Day program.

Your instructor for the day, will empower you to achieve a solid set of foundation skills required for ‘high end’ driving. These skills include setting optimal seating and steering positions, ideal strategies for cornering, stability, vision and planning. Rallying and racing are high-risk sports that require a high level of focus and concentration, combined with the skills, knowledge and attitude for success. By the end of the day, you are amalgamating all the skills, planning and thought processes required for this demanding ,yet satisfying sport. In addition, we cover off driving a rally car on public roads in a sound manner that won’t attract unwanted attention.

 

The Motorsport Essentials program is a fantastic day full of learning and fun and is ideal for any motorist enthusiast.

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This is the business end of high speed driving. Once you have refined the skills at slow speeds, you must now apply these skills at high speed. You will be doing fast laps but we work on other techniques. These include various entry methods, power on methods, car control and even how to be flamboyant correctly (never waste a crowd is our motto!).

 

Lap times are important but it makes up for only 25% of the effort.

We will help you apply the similar principles we have already shown you in the Motorsport Essentials Program into higher speeds and wider roads.

 

This includes sets of exercises to better understand the limits at speeds around 80kph so the day is not too harsh on your vehicle.

Through an in depth conversation about your objectives and requirements, our instructors will establish a customised strategy of approach to test the outer limits of your driving ability and your vehicle.

The Motorsport Excel-erate program is a thrilling program with plenty of learning and time to practice your new skills. Only scheduled a few times a year, this exciting program includes in vehicle instruction with accredited trainers.

 

Requirements
  • Suitable vehicle

  • Successful completion of the Motorsport Essentials program is an advantage

  • Own safety kit is preferable

  • Helmet and attire must be to the neck, wrists, ankles and non-flammable

  • Full license is ideal

  • Probationary licence is ok

  • Must be able to drive a manual vehicle (for CAMS licence)

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Book Now for our upcoming Motorsport
Excel-erate Track Programs at Mallala Motorsport Park:


Monday 18th September 12
.30pm - 4.30pm
Friday 10th November 12
.30pm - 4.30pm

This program provides you an opportunity to enhance your car control skills and chances of safely recovering when something doesn't go to plan. This unique program provides you with direct coaching from a professional motorsport instructor whilst developing and practicing new skills. This 1/2 day practical program assists with visual, steering, gear changing and mechanical empathy skills that will ensure you are far more preapred for tarmac rallying.

Course Content 

  • Control slides on the throttle

  • Counter steer

  • Improved visual skills

  • Gear changing and sliding

  • Recover a slide Professional guidance

  • Recovery techniques

  • Mechanical empathy

 

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Book Now for our upcoming Motorsport
Beyond the Limits at Mallala Motorsport Park:

Monday 18th September 8.00am - 12.00pm
Friday 10th November 8.00am - 12.00pm 


 

This combination program provides you with the best of the Motorsport world: you commence the day on the skidpan, to experience the thrill of enhancing your car control skills and recovery in the Beyond the Limits program. Direct coaching from a professional motorsport instructor enables you to develop and practice new skills, assisting with visual, steering, gear changing and mechanical empathy skills that will ensure you are far more prepared for tarmac rallying.

 

After replenishing your energy with lunch, you move onto the Mallala Track for the Motorsport Excel-erate program. This is the business end of high speed driving. Once you have refined the skills at slow speeds, you must now apply these skills at high speed on a race track. You will be completing fast laps during this training whilst we also work on other techniques. The program increases in difficulty as you improve, slowly adding more to your skill set. Some of these skills are quite technical, however once you understand balance, safe limits and your car control is good, we move into correction techniques.

Requirements
  • Suitable vehicle

  • Successful completion of the Motorsport Essentials program is an advantage

  • Own safety kit is preferable

  • Helmet and attire must be to the neck, wrists, ankles and non-flammable

  • Full license is ideal

  • Probationary licence is ok

  • Must be able to drive a manual vehicle (for CAMS licence)

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Looking to develop your skills further but not quite sure where you can improve? Engage one of our professional motorsport instructors to provide you with customised strategies to develop your own driving skills. During the 2 hour session you will have an opportunity to seek our your own feedback whilst a professional reviews your driving behaviours through the review of your in car footage. 

Session overview 

  • Provide examples of your in car footage and receive bespoke coaching regarding your real life driving examples 

  • 2 hour exclusive session with a Motorsport Instructor 

  • Opportunity to seek feedback and ask for advice from a professional

  • Custom strategies to take away from the session to apply in your next event.

  • Includes brief summary report outlining feedback and suggested strategies.

  • Up to 2 participants can attend session e.g Driver and Navigator

  • Sessions can be held virtually over Zoom/Microsoft Teams or face to face in applicable locations. 

 

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Tarmac and Gravel Rallying is a form of motorsport that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars. It is distinguished by not running on a circuit, but instead in a point-to-point format in which participants and their co-drivers drive between set control points (special stages), leaving at regular intervals from one or more start points. Rallies may be won by pure speed within the stages or alternatively by driving to a predetermined ideal journey time within the stages.

 

This course is intended to provide people intending to compete in a rally for the first time, with knowledge of Basic Rally Co driver Techniques, how to undertake the Rally control processes, prepare them-selves and their vehicle, and to follow Pace Notes in a car Rally (Tarmac or Gravel). The purpose is to enable them to minimise unnecessary distractions and anxiety during the event, to concentrate on competing safely.

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For a complete program overview please click here: 

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