Any recommendations? I've never owned a rear-wheel drive car before, so a beginner performance school would be great.

 

Vee,

it's a bit of a drive from Portland, but I'm planning on going (again) to the excellent IRDC High Performance Driving School at SIR (south of Seattle). I posted info on it here:

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=19469

Let me know if you have any questions.

Ted

 

http://www.prodrive.net/

This is a driving school that runs out of PIR. They have a variety of different options, one of which is a course using your own car. You have to take a $250 basic safety course in the skid cars first, then it's $300 for one day in your own car with an instructor riding along. I haven't done it, but it sounds interesting. I would expect a lot of tire wear and would definately want reasonably fresh tires for something like this.

Edit: The only reason I haven't done this is because I don't have a fast car yet . So I'm not sure what the rules are at PIR about rollcages and I don't know whether s2k's are allowed. But I've never heard otherwise

 

Show up to any BMW car club meet, costs like $125 and you get an instructor thrown in.

 

My son is a professional racer and races a lot at PIR. He flew me out about six months ago and I took a driving school at Porche's open track day, BMW does the same thing. It is a real kick, just whish I had my S2000 with me, although my sons porsche 911Sc was fun. Check with any SCCA member and I am sure they could direct you to the right place