Driving School Recommendations??

[eVoMotion]

We are in Portland Oregon and are signing up for the Prodrive defensive driving and then high performance driving schools as well as already signed up for a track day with full instruction. We want to learn more about every day and then performance driving the S. My wife might be even more excited than I am.

I am thinking that I will try and get my dad to go to the Jim Hall Kart School in California as well. He just bought an 07 S and use to have karts. Way fun!

[EPIQTodd]

I think your best option would be a Skip Barber or Porsche Driving Experience. I did the latter - 2-day event - and it was truly spectacular. I still, some 2 years later, recall and work on using the skills I learned there, and this after dozens of track days' worth of experience. You are given instructors of the highest caliber, vehicles, classroom instruction, and even food. They aren't cheap, but when you see all of what you get (particularly the cars, maintenance, tires, and fuel) and start looking at the cost of taking your own car to the track (easily around $1,000 per event with wear and tear, gas, entry fees, etc.), it's a bargain.

[Uncle Bob]

EPIQTodd, that sounds like a great deal. You do get what you pay for. For starting out? $85 for an all day class (7:30 till about 7:30!), lunch and a helmet is still a great way to start. The real benefit was to meet fellow PCNWA members as well.