TEAMSPEED partner Skip Barber Racing featured on Top Gear Blog!

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Nov 28, 2010 | 01:00 PM

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TEAMSPEED partner Skip Barber Racing featured on Top Gear Blog!

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"You don't have to be a masterful sim champ like Greger to have a crack at single-seaters. The chaps at the Skip Barber race school can help you on your way, starting with basics and moving through the Toolbox of Driving Excellence until the car goes where you want it, when you want it, at the correct speed. Not upside down on fire.

They have schools at over 20 race tracks in the States, so you'll need some pocket money for a flight over, but it'll be worth it. The instructors are world-class, cherry-picked from all sorts of motorsport and with hundreds of years of experience between them. There are lots of courses to choose from, and plenty of cars, including the Lexus IS-F, Lotus Exige, Porsche 911 and Mazda MX-5.

Or you could take the plunge like Greger, and go for the three-day race school in the Skip Barber training car - a pure'n'simple open-wheel single-seater designed to teach you how a car should behave, and more importantly, how you should behave inside it.

And unlike some driving schools, you won't be made to wiggle around cones all day. Instead, the instructors teach you about heel'n'toe gearshifts, high-speed handling, hard braking from speed, overtaking, drafting, standing starts and rolling starts until at the end of the course, you're a fully-fledged rookie racer. Then you can compete in the Skip Barber Race Series where your stratospheric rise to superstardom shall begin. Excited? Good. It all starts at www.skipbarber.com."

Source [ Top Gear]