When we have finished the car (hopefully about a years time) I will want to learn to drive it. I know it will be a beast to learn to drive in but......

Where could we take the car to learn to drive it (other than up and down the driveway). I have driven a few other car in my life before, but that was round a field. I am hoping to start competing when I am 16.

Adam

I learnt to drive in a tractor, which is why I flick sh1t at people as I drive about.

at 3 mph

Cheers

Chris

Industrial estates are pretty good, evenings or weekends they are dead. My dad took me out on our local estate when I was 16, never any questions asked.

Also you'll be surprised how varied an industrial estate can be, mine had fast and slow corners, slopes, parking bays, roads for 3 point turns etc, I learnt most of the basics there!

Pete

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The industrial estate idea is a bit dodgy as I think you can get done for no insurance even if it is private land. I think the law was changed to stop boy racers taking over a supermarket car park for a night of fun and now rules that if the private land is available to the general public then all the normal insurance rules apply. Best bet is to find someone with a bit of land you can use like a farm or a few airfield based track days.

Hmm, I'll have to find someone in school with a bit of tarmac (preferably bigger than the car).

Adam

try www.1stlotus.com

been one one of their activity days, it was a hoot. Would like to go back for a proper tuition day, maybe when the locost is finished. The instructor at north weald really knows his onions too. Took one guy's elise out to show us how it was done, lovely drifting, faster by miles than anyone else's circuit - and he had a broken left ankle.

Cardrome - Hornchurch, Essex has been going for years.

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PROFESSIONAL DRIVER EDUCATION FOR ALL AGES AT OUR UNIQUE TWELVE ACRE PRIVATE ROAD COMPLEX

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The Industrial estate is BAD Idea.
So is Tesco / Sainsbury's Car Parks etc.

ANY place that the public have access to requires full legal documentation and all Laws apply ie Mot Tax, Insurance, Driving licence and age etc. Even if its private Land like said estates and car parks.

You dont want to be paying for an injury to some kid that came out of nowhere and got seriously injured. unlikely but possible.

You need a fully private bit of Land, or permission to use an old airfield etc.

Regards

Geoffw

Bit far from you, but there is an old airfield in Northumberland you can use for driving practice. Must be others around the country. Get out the OS map and have a look - then go find the entrance!