waremark wrote:I'm confused here. Are you saying you are a poor driver? Or a poor driver?
Personally, I have found the drivers I met on ADUK days to be rather good - and quite a few of them have been rich enough to move onto HPC. Though actually, to join HPC you don't have to be rich, you just have to be obsessive about your driving - and those who attend ADUK days are well on the way!
OK, I've done it again: a supposedly light-hearted response that's misfired. Nowt new there.
The easy bit first then: I'm not actually a poor OAP in financial terms, but I don't chuck money around too carelessly. I could comfortably afford to go the HPC route, but I'm not sure that I would make the grade, and in any case I don't buy into all of their driving standards, so it wouldn't make any sense for me to pursue it. I'm not criticising it, and all credit to those who do join and enjoy it, but it's just not for me.
In truth I like to feel that I'm a fairly good driver; certainly I've always tried to be, but of course I'm biased, so that's not much help. It's all a bit of a mixed bag really: I think I'm safe and smooth to a fairly high degree, and adequately quick when I feel like it. On the other hand there are no doubt aspects in which I'm not particularly good at all, so I try to work on those areas where I feel they are reasonably relevant and important. That's about it, really.
Best wishes all,
Dave.