I attended the SCCA Novice School last weekend held at the stadium here in San Diego. It consisted of one night of autocross discussion and then a full day of driving. The morning was spent driving one course, generally with an instructor, and in the afternon we drove a different course, again with instructors for most runs. At the end of the day the two courses were joined and we each did a few timed runs on our own. This day was an absolute blast and I recommend it to all Elise owners.
One instructor did nothing but repeat the phrase "where are we going" over and over and that turned out to be my best training for the day. He forced me to look much further ahead than I had been doing previously, and this helped with route finding. The second best advice was the instructor who kept yelling "more gas!, more gas!". I really had no idea how fast the Elise could corner but apparently he did.
My main instructor (we switched around a few times) was a Lotus guy, he has an Elan he bought in 1973. As he had never driven an Elise I felt obligated to let him do so. He drove it like he stole it of course, which again was a lot of fun. Altogether a great Lotus day.
One instructor did nothing but repeat the phrase "where are we going" over and over and that turned out to be my best training for the day. He forced me to look much further ahead than I had been doing previously, and this helped with route finding. The second best advice was the instructor who kept yelling "more gas!, more gas!". I really had no idea how fast the Elise could corner but apparently he did.
My main instructor (we switched around a few times) was a Lotus guy, he has an Elan he bought in 1973. As he had never driven an Elise I felt obligated to let him do so. He drove it like he stole it of course, which again was a lot of fun. Altogether a great Lotus day.