Sport Lapping Session with Coaching
Take your High Performance Driving Experience skills to the next level.
- PREREQUISITE HPDE within 12 months.
The road to driving expertise is a journey of many laps. Once you complete your One-Day High Performance Driving Experience (HPDE) ProFormance Racing School offers drivers solo sport lapping sessions — providing the valuable track time needed to continue skill development. To take advantage of the solo sport lapping sessions, ProFormance requires all HPDE graduates to begin their first lapping session with 45 minutes of private coaching to ensure that they are ready to lap on Pacific Raceways by themselves.
Your required coaching session can take place during various lapping events that we offer — AM High Performance Sport Lapping, PM High Performance Sport Lapping, All Day High Performance Sport Lapping, and more. Select the lapping session that fits your schedule from the Upcoming Coaching Sessions list in the sidebar on this page or view all lapping date options on our Calendar. If a coaching session is available that day, you will see it listed in the Optional Add-on section when you register. Each session has a limited car count to provide drivers with the best possible experience.
- NOTE We recommend you take your coaching session as soon as possible, and preferably within 6 months, after completing HPDE while the concepts you learned are still fresh in your mind. If it has been over a year since your HPDE, we recommend you repeat the course to refresh your skills
What to Expect
There’s no need to be nervous about going from the One-Day High Performance Driving Experience to sport lapping. You’ll be guided by ProFormance Racing School professionals every step of the way
Mandatory Driver’s Meeting
We offer several different durations of lapping sessions to fit your schedule, but every one of them begins with a mandatory driver’s meeting. During the meeting you will find out any guidelines relevant to that day’s session, along with time-honored reminders learned during HPDE. All event registrations include the time of the driver’s meeting and on-track lapping schedule.
Coaching Session
After the drivers’ meeting, you and your instructor will spend 45 minutes together in your car: you are in the driver’s seat, with your instructor’s support. Your rearview mirror, which was taken away during the HPDE, is returned to you, and you are now in control of traffic, overtaking, and being overtaken using the protocols described in the drivers’ meeting. During the session your instructor will refresh your memory of the driving line and the high performance driving techniques that you encountered in your original High Performance Driving Experience. You will receive pointers from your instructor and a Driver’s Logbook. The logbook is a working instrument that you should keep in your car so you can track your progress.
Solo Presentation
When your 45 minutes are up, your instructor will exit the car and will radio the entire racetrack staff that you are making your first solo presentation on the track. For the balance of the session you’ll be under observation, with the staff making sure that you’re in compliance, not struggling, and of course, having fun.
Attaining your High Performance Sport Driving License and Solo Upgrade
At day’s end, your instructor presents to our Chief Instructor a written and verbal report regarding your time on track. If you receive a satisfactory report from your instructor, you’ll receive your High Performance Sport Driving License, allowing you to participate in lapping sessions at Pacific Raceways as a solo driver. More than 75% of participants are ready to go solo after one coaching session. Additional coaching may be required by some.
- NOTE Your ProFormance High Performance Sport Driving License is not a racing license. It permits you to participate in solo sport lapping sessions at ProFormance Racing School. If you want to race, you need to take Two-Day Accredited Competition Race Licensing.
Once you attain your High Performance Sport Driving License you can experience all the thrills and keep polishing your skills by registering for any High Performance Sport Lapping Session at ProFormance. To stay sharp, improve your performance, and enjoy the fun of sport lapping come as often as you can!
- NOTE To maintain your sport driving license, register for at least one sport lapping session per year
Come Prepared
Driving your own car is recommended, however track cars are available to rent.
- Participants must ensure that their car is in proper mechanical condition for lapping. Complete the Pre-Lapping Checklist to ensure you are ready to drive when you arrive.
- Arrive 15 minutes early if you are renting a ProFormance track car to allow time for fitting.
- All drivers at sport lapping sessions must wear helmets with a Snell SA2020 or later certification. If you do not have one, use of a ProFormance helmet is included with your first coaching session.
- Before your first lapping session, you’ll receive an email with video links and a Guide to Obtaining Solo Sport Driving License. We recommend you review these to refresh your memory of skills, terms, flags, and Pacific Raceways track turns.
See Step 3 Solo Sport Lapping Sessions and the Frequently Asked Questions list for more information about sport lapping at ProFormance.