Wednesday, November 9, 2011

SKIDCAR News - Summer/Fall 2011, China

China Dragon Racing, Zhaoqing: Guangdong Province, CHINA

Our trip to train instructors in China was a very interesting exercise in the versatility of the SKIDCAR and our curriculum. The owner of the business, Kelvin So, had many challenges for us to meet. Not only did he want to use the SKIDCAR as a supplement for training in his racing school, but also wanted to use the driver training tool to gain access to training corporate markets, police, government, and beginner drivers. His model is very close to how we started with SKIDCAR in 1989 as an additional tool at my Pitarresi Pro Drive Racing School at PIR in Portland, OR.

Kelvin was an incredible host to Curt Cedergren and me. We also had an opportunity to get to know Team Manager and instructor candidate Zeng Wei Fang, who has to be one of the hardest working and most successful female Team Managers in Auto Sport. The other two instructors we schooled were motorsports professionals Zhu Yu and Tommy Chan, a young, up-and-coming racer, drifter, and motor journalist in China.

Additionally, the sale of the SKIDCAR to China Dragon Racing has lead to the subsequent reward of the Chinese SKIDCAR dealership. We feel this new team has a very successful future with SKIDCAR and driver training in China!

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