At the high performance school we have created exercises that will bring any level driver to the next level. By teaching basic techniques like braking, turning, loss of traction, and the geometry of a racing line we are able to teach the basics as well as advanced processes for these techniques. After completing the school you will be eligible to come to any lapping day that OCRC hosts. At the end of the school day you will get to drive on "The Bull Ring" our hugely popular road course.
1. Wet Skid Pad (UnderSteer)
Learn what it feels like when the front of your car loses traction and begins to slide. Our coaches will take you past the limit and teach you how to save your car from sliding out of control. The wet skid pad is fun, safe, and a very important tool to add to your list of skills.
2. Wet Skid Pad (Oversteer)
Learn what it feels like when the rear of your car loses traction and begins to slide. Our coaches will take you past the limit and teach you how to save your car from sliding out of control. The wet skid pad is fun, safe, and a very important tool to add to your list of skills.
3. Braking/Shifting
The braking/shifting course is a very advanced look into the braking system of your car and the technique for shifting. You will learn how to stop efficiently and safely. The instructors will cover the difference between ABS, Non-ABS, and the advantages of both. Have you ever heard of the term heal-toe downshifting? If your car is a manual you will learn the proper way to upshift and if you're up to the challenge, how to heal toe downshift.
4. Cornering
In the cornering exercise you will be driving around a 180 degree corner (a hairpin). With this corner we will teach you how to properly find the apex. You will learn what a Early, Mid, and Late apex is and know what types of corners you should apply them to.
5. Trail Braking
The trail braking exercise is something seldom taught in racing school because it is a very advanced technique. However, OCRC has the most talented staff hired to convey this message we are confident that everyone will leave with a unique understanding of how to release the brake pedal while entering a corner. This exercise is the great equalizer
$499 Lapping day
As described by Earl Sheppard. A friend of OCRC.
Now for the main event...the OCRC track, which for the time being I'll simply call The Bull (El Toro). I CANNOT accurately describe how MUCH fun this track was! You simply can't get a sense of the flow and technical intricacies without driving it! It is, IMO, the most fun CA track I've been on. Partly this is due to superior course design; each corner has a distinct character and relates to the previous and next track sections in an intuitive and fluid manner.
I also appreciated the relative slowness of the track...which is to say that the top speed on the fastest straights was about 105mph for me. But this meant that there were no high speed corners (100+) like the scary turn 8 at Willow. Consequently I was able to (for the first time EVER!) push my M Coupe as hard as I could over every inch of every lap! There were two very quick turns (1 and 2), which took some balls to run really quickly. But the speeds were such that I could acclimate.
There were no "tire killer" turns (like Willow's turn 2), and this meant that the track was kind to both street tires and r-comps. The Bull was very easy to learn, good visibility and clear braking zones, but I can tell it will be very difficult to master as each turn presents different technical challenges! How Nathan and the rest of the staff were able to carve such a FUN track out of a "flat" airfield is simply genius!
To give you guys a better understanding of the track I put together this simple trace of my line through The Bull, with brake and throttle inputs as red and green gradients. I've numbered the turns as I saw fit, it's possible these might change should the track become permanent (I hope!):
$999 Combo School/Lapping
Combine the two days and save $100. Learn how to drive your car on our training exercises then spend a second day cementing your newly learned craft... And have a little fun too.
$899 Double Lapping day combo
If you have been through the school before or if you hold a current SCCA, NASA, POC, PCA, IMSA, FIA, GRAND-AM, NASCAR license then you can come out and save $100 by combining the two days together.
