AM or PM Racing in the Rain Skills Clinic & Lapping

A Must for Northwest Drivers: ProFormance Racing in the
Rain Skills Clinic and Traction Sensing  Lapping Session – Registration Open!

Driving on a wet racetrack takes a special set of advanced car control skills that can only be developed by experience.

It all began when our chief instructor Don Kitch, Jr. put his vast experience in the subject into a paper entitled “The Art of Racing in the Rain.” It it he made it clear that experience is the main factor in gaining the skills needed to be proficient in high performance and competition driving in the rain. “Get out on a wet race track every time you can” is Don’s byword. The German “rain meister” race car driver Hans Stuck would agree. Stuck was not born one of the finest sports car rain racers in the world: he became one by getting out on a wet race track every time he could.

In the ProFormance Rain Driving Skills clinic you’ll acquire skills the way the rain meister did. You’ll learn how to anticipate what your car will do in every situation in the rain with a set of driving exercises designed to test and develop your skills on a wet racetrack.

ProFormance Racing in the Rain Skills Clinic

AM Session: 9-12:30 pm
9-11 am Rain Clinic Exercises
11:-12:30 pm On Track

PM Session 1-4:30 pm
1-3 pm Rain Clinic Exercises
3-4:30 pm On Track

$295 prerequisite-checked off solo for Pacific Raceways
$50- 15 minute one on one coaching session on-track (limited stock)

1. Check-in  8:00 am or Noon
2. Classroom session defining goals for the day: Classroom 8:30 am or 12:30 pm
3. “Becoming comfortable with discomfort.” Commonly, sport and competition drivers are uncomfortable with the car active, busy, or sliding. Proficient driving in the rain on a racetrack mandates being comfortable with the car moving around. If the car is “planted and on rails” you are slow.
4. Driving exercises:
   Power Circle – Rotate the car around a pylon to learn how to use the steering wheel and throttle to find the balance or “sweet spot” between understeer and oversteer.
   Figure Eight – Experience using the brakes to initiate rotation and directional change. Timing and rate of release of the brake pedal is critical. Learn patience with the throttle and how to initiate throttle-induced oversteer to complete directional change and drive to the center pylon. Learn to anticipate oversteer at center pylon, be ready to “catch it” with the wheel.
   Turn 8 Exercise – This exercise gives you experience with throttle-induced understeer on entry and trailing throttle oversteer from apex to exit to help you learn advanced car control. This exercise trains the driver to always look in the direction you want the car pointed dictating degree of wheel correction.

Lapping with Traction Sensing

Open Track – You’ll have the opportunity to use all of the car control skills you’ve developed in the exercises in a full-on track experience. Participants will use this session for “traction sensing” – driving off line to find the grip.

You’ll come away from the Racing in the Rain Skills Clinic with confidence and a higher level of car control skills while navigating a wet race track.

How to register

We control a lot of things at ProFormance, but the weather is not one of them. Of course, if the rain doesn’t materialize you’ll get a full refund or apply your credit to the next event.

Prerequisite:

One Day High Performance Driving Clinic or equivalent is required for Racing in the Rain Clinic participant.