Extended and Intensive Rally Experiences

These rally days last between 5-7 hours and take up most of the day, with lunch normally organised and included. If you live some distance away you can always make an overnight stop afterwards to complete the day, especially if you are going with a few friends - you can spend the evening exaggerating how fast you went ! You may well be feeling quite tired as well; if you've done the day properly it requires quite a bit of concentration.

As with other days, you'll start with a safety briefing but this is usually followed with a "classroom" session where you learn about the rally driving techniques you will be using out on the stages.

You will certainly learn how to do handbrake turns and if you're driving a front wheel drive car, you may well learn a little left foot braking, because you can brake the back wheels while the front are on power. Normally their will be enough time to really get the hang of the techniques, so you should find that you can handbrake turn AND keep the car accelerating out of the hairpin bend as if you were on a real rally.

You'll also learn how to turn in early into a corner and slide the car sideways around it so that you can exit on maximum power. This takes a lot of practice its not natural to turn towards corners before you reach them !

When you get the cornering right its exhilerating being able to hold a rally car in a long smooth slide with just the throttle and the steering and this is what leads to fast stage times. At the end of the day there are usually timed competitive laps and a presentation, sometimes with some bubbly !

What is interesting is that its not pure aggression that wins, its control and coordination. Sometimes the most unlikely participants do the fastest stage times because they have taken in and applied all the lessons of the rally day experience.