Well said!
When my daughter turned 16, I took her to the Bob Bondurant high performance driving course (3-day course). Great father-daughter bonding experience, and great fun driving race-prepared Mustangs on the Phoenix Int'l road course. She set FTOD on the autocross -- and the driving instructors competed with each other to show her "the moves." I've got some great shots of her coming down the back straight pushing 100mph.
Anyway, on point, she came away from this course knowing much better what you CAN and CANNOT do with a car. She looks much further down the road, and anticipates far better. She's not afraid to really nail the brakes, if needed. She can rescue a skid, and doesn't automatically lift the throttle if the back end starts to come out on a turn. After this, and a couple of winter driving courses with Tim O'Neil (ex VW factory rally driver), I feel confident that she has much better survival skills in today's herds of incompetent drivers. Best I can do for her as a father.
And yes, she DOES drive my Z, hard!
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