Read the article: A Veteran Driver and His Student

VSCDA's highly regarded Spring Break Driver's School is held the last weekend of April each year at GingerMan Raceway in South Haven, Michigan. The school starts on a Thursday evening with a classroom session on racing terms, strategies, rules, flagging, and etiquette. In that session, you'll also meet your instructor, one of our experienced racers.

On Friday you're on the track all day, starting in the morning with sessions with your instructor to learn the correct racing lines and braking points. After each track session, you'll have a critique session in the classroom. Then you're right back out on the track for another practice session.

Upon successfully passing the school by end of day on Friday, you'll join other racers in VSCDA's GingerMan Race Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, with qualifying races on Saturday and feature races on Sunday. By the end of the weekend you can expect to have learned car control and consistency as well as gained confidence in your abilities as a vintage racer.

Want to know more? Just click on the Spring Brake Driver's School Q&A. You can also contact the VSCDA office at vscda@vscda.org or (616) 916-1650.

And you don't need to take our word for the high-quality experience that the VSCDA Driver's School provides. Take a look at these comments from several of our 2010 students.

Cana Comer (59 Austin Healey Sprite): "The school is great. All the instructors are helpful, thoughtful and encouraging."

Jim Haupt (71 Datsun 510): "The pace was fast but made good use of maximizing track time."

Marc Frost (76 Honda): "My instructor was perfect. He was very supportive at the beginning and loosened the reins once he felt I was able to handle it. The school is one of the best things that VSCDA does!"

Mike Pixley (Lotus Elan): "What I was most impressed with as a driver with some experience was the amount of feedback from instructors during the school. After five of the six track sessions, instructors watching from nearly all of GingerMan's eleven corners gave individual feedback on corner entry, apex, exit, and consistency as well as identifying progressive breaking markers and turn-in points for each driver. My comfort level grew exponentially over the course of the long day, and I cannot express how beneficial it was to have the extra set of eyes outside the car to guide me around a track with some pretty challenging sequences. Thanks!"