I've attended the Brumos U driving school in Gainesville Raceway this past weekend. It was an awesome experience especially with Hurley Haywood Chief Driving Instructor teaching my group. At the end of the day, we droves down the drag strip. My C4S performed decent, R/T .222, 60' 2.315, 1/4 13.812, MPH 104.21.

Here is my Graduation Picture.

 

Looks like you had a lot of fun . Congrats . How many days was the class ?

 

The class was 1 day.

 

Hm. Sounds like a fun day and not very far from Tampa. Any idea on how old you have to be?

 

Congrats and great picture, Gadgetman.

This is run by some guy from North Florida and in the past you had to purchase your Porsche from Brumos to get into this DE; every once in awhile Hurley is there and sometimes you get to ride a lap with him driving. Now, with the decline in sales, any member of the PCA Crown Region can sign up. I'd imagine that pretty soon anyone with a few hundred bucks might "qualify".

 

Was it just a 1/4 mile day, or were you on a road course too?

Great photo, a true legend.

 

I believe the minimim age to particpate is 18 years old. From what I hear, this DE is only for those customers that purchased their cars from Brumos.

There was 3 road courses that was set up through out the day. Then all the students participated in a ride with Hurley in the 911 Supercar. That was a blast! Finally, we all did 3 runs on the Drag Strip.

 

Oh ok. Any other ones in FL, preferably Central FL

 

You could check with your local tracks, PCA, POC, or other driving club as to the minimum age requirements.

 

congrats

 

I may be wrong, but I thought I read that it is now open to anyone. Cost around $600.

 

Hmmm. TMG do you have a link?

 

That's what I surmised in my cynical remark; Brumos used to advertise "1 hour of instruction with Hurley Haywood" with any new purchase, which I thought was a hell of a pitch. I do know that he is NOT always available for these Gainesville soirees, and if he's not the $600 is a little salty; PCA DE's would probably offer more plus get you going on a progressive series if so inclined. Another good alternative in central Florida is private instruction with Ron Zitza at Zotz Racing.

 

call Brumos in Jacksonville - they'll give you the name of the guy who's running it.

 

Found it:

http://www.pcafcr.org/newsletter.asp

Select the March issue and see page 11.