| Even if you don’t consider yourself a fan of motor | | | | been trained in how to teach you exactly what you |
| sports you are probably at least somewhat familiar | | | | need to know. Next, you’ll be outfitted with the rally |
| with rally car driving. You’ve seen rally car driving in | | | | driving gear you will wear during your experience. This |
| movies or on TV and you may even know that this is | | | | is typically the very same gear that the professionals |
| one of the oldest motor sports, having begun in the | | | | used. |
| early 1900s in Monte Carlo. The sport of rally driving is | | | | Once you receive your introduction to the sport and |
| somewhat different today than it was in the early | | | | some of rally driving intricacies you will move to the |
| days, mainly because it is more mature--the cars are | | | | car. Of course, this is the part you’ve been waiting |
| faster, the roads are better, and rally driving equipment | | | | for. If this is your first exposure to rally car driving you |
| is now designed for safety. But rally car driving retains | | | | will probably be sit in the co-pilot’s seat and be |
| its allure because it still means fast cars, thrilling turns, | | | | driven by an instructor. Your rally school instructor will |
| and brave drivers. | | | | introduce you to the actual driving a little gently by |
| If you think that rally car driving is a sport reserved only | | | | taking you around the stages once or twice before |
| for professionals you are wrong. With the help of the | | | | opening it up and taking the car to more dramatic |
| many professional rally driving schools that are located | | | | speeds. Once your rally driving instructor has gotten |
| throughout the world, anyone can suit up, strap down | | | | you accustomed to the car, your real experience will |
| and experience the thrill of taking hairpin turns at break | | | | begin. Before you know it your rally car driving |
| neck speeds and screeching sideways while kicking up | | | | instructor will be flying toward the stages and |
| a cloud of dust. There is no experience exactly like | | | | introducing you to the thrill of maneuvers such as hand |
| rally car driving and you certainly owe it to yourself to | | | | braking, power sliding, and hard cornering. If you are a |
| experience it first hand. | | | | little more experienced at rally car driving you may |
| Rally car driving is different than conventional auto | | | | take to the wheel yourself. Some rally schools will |
| racing. Rally driving competitions are not held on | | | | offer you the choice of whether you want to pilot or |
| specially designed and built tracks. Instead, rally driving | | | | co-pilot. |
| races are conducted on regular roads. Drivers | | | | Regardless of your experience with rally car driving |
| navigate a series of stages, or predetermined points, | | | | and your appetite for adventure, you can find a rally |
| while racing against the clock. For amateurs, rally car | | | | school that suits your tastes. Once you have made |
| driving schools are the perfect place to experience the | | | | the commitment to dive into the rally car driving |
| thrill of this unique brand of auto racing. | | | | experience you will be glad you did. The chances are |
| Your day at rally car driving school will start out with | | | | once will not be enough and you keep returning for |
| an introduction to safety as well as some of the driving | | | | more. As anyone who has been through rally school |
| techniques that you will encounter. This session will be | | | | will tell you, rally car driving is a sport that can be very |
| taught by a professional rally school instructor who had | | | | addictive. |