WEBVTT - Automotive Bucket List 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.360 Hello, and welcome to the Fast Track. I'm your host, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.200 Scott Benjamin, and today we're going to um take a 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.440 little bit of a turn. I guess we're gonna we're 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.160 gonna talk about some but a lot of different things really, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.599 but it's gonna have kind of a broad scope in 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.560 this one. And uh, and I think it's something that 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.120 almost everybody, at least anybody listening here we'll be able 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.840 to relate to, and that is automotive bucket list. And 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.560 I know a lot of people have heard of bucket 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.199 list before. It's you know those things that you want 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.879 to do before you die, which sounds awful, but you know, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.239 the things that you want to do before you die. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.440 And a lot of people have things like, you know, skydiving, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.040 or they want to go to France, or they want 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.280 to um, you know, because it usually it involves a 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.960 lot of travel. Usually it involves um some experiences and 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.239 that type of thing. But I want to I want 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:53.040 to focus today on automotive bucket list. And this could 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.240 be just about anything. And uh, I have have talked to 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.520 several people about, you know, some things that they might 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.000 want to do, you know, automotive or lated before they 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.720 are too old to do them, you know, too old 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.160 to drive, or you know before they kind of lose 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.840 interest in this sort of thing, because I think that 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.600 might happen with a lot of people as well. You know, 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.319 you just kind of age out of this thing. You know, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.640 you get a little bit more um responsible, you know maybe, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.200 or you get um, you know, the point where you 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.880 realize that, you know, maybe you don't necessarily want to 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.880 drive you know, three miles per hour in the salt 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.880 flats anymore because you know, you're you're eight years old 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.360 and your reaction time might not be the best that 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.640 or the way that it was you know, thirty years 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.520 prior any something like that. Um. But anyways, there's there's 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.800 a huge variety here of things that we can talk about. It. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.440 I've I've recently done something that I want to talk 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.240 about in particular, and uh and I just can't say 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.480 enough about it. And I'm not gonna I'm not trying 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.240 to sell this, this package or this deal to anybody 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.560 by any means, but it is something that that I 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.320 did recently that that I want to talk about. It 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.880 was a driving experience and uh and I'll get into 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.240 that too, But before I talk about my own experience. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.920 I want to talk about, you know, some of these 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.240 experiences that you know, people that I know have have 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.400 been able to do in the past, and this is 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.400 kind of inspiration for me to do this sort of 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.240 thing as well. And I was excited about it when 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.200 I heard about it. And you know, when you see 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.960 somebody else that does something like this and you know 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.399 they you hear the stories that they tell you of 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.160 what it was like, UM, that's pretty interesting. It's it's 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.560 always fun, and it kind of gets you thrilled, you know, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.000 to do the same thing, or it kind of gets 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:19.800 you amped up a little bit too to maybe go 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.840 out and you know, experience some of this stuff yourself. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.440 And what I'm talking about in particular is is I 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.600 guess these driving packages or these experiences that you can 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.600 purchase for a day or an hour or you know, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.480 even just a couple of laps or whatever, you know, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.160 at various race courses around the United States or around 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.280 the world. Really and um, once that that I'm talking 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.680 about are um, you know, exotics or maybe it's you know, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.160 like the drift cars, or it could be you know, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.799 it could be classic cars. It could be just about anything. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.120 There's experiences out there for for just about every type 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.079 of of you know, race series that is out there, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.720 um or every type of vehicle that it's out there, uh, 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.120 including manufacturers. Sometimes manufacturers will even host these that allow 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.120 you to drive some of their top end vehicles, you know, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.680 all the way down through some of the lower end models, 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.080 just to be familiar with, you know what the what 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.000 they have on their showroom floors at the time. My 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.480 dad is the one that I want to talk about 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.480 who has done this most recently, and this is a 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.200 year ago Father's Day. We gave him as a gift 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.680 a NASCAR experience and this he lives in Michigan, and 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.880 this is happening at the Michigan International Speedway and you're 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.799 you're allowed to get into an actual NASCAR car. You know, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.359 it has every it's a race vehicle. It's d tuned 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.000 quite a bit, I think, you know, it's it's kind 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.639 of governed down so that you know, you're not going 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.760 to maximum speed, you know, like as they would in 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.720 the in the professional series. But um, it's it's for 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.160 a user experience that you know, you can buy a 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.520 package for you know, a half day, half hour, half 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.800 you know what, whatever the increment of time it was. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.560 I can't remember how many hours it was that he 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.120 was there, but um got several laps in in a 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.000 true NASCAR car and really enjoyed the heck out of it. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.880 Was a lot of fun. And um, there's a couple 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.560 of particulars that we're interesting in this and I'll tell 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.040 you about them later. But my brother did one as well. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.040 Um he did one where you know, you go to 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.640 a parking lot and you get to drive in an 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.640 exotic car and I don't know how many laps you 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.040 get to do in this thing. You know, it's just 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.200 kind of an autocross course with cones and uh, you know. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.040 The dangerous part about this one to me anyways, is 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.640 that you know, they're light poles and uh, some concrete 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.160 barriers and things like that around that I would be 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:21.919 a little bit concerned about if I was him, But 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.400 he loved it. He was able to drive a Ferrari 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.400 and was able to uh you know kind of I guess, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.440 not push it to the maximum or anything like that, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.160 but but really kind of feel what that car is 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.200 capable of. My my father in law he did one 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.640 also that was a Ferrari, but he also did his 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.560 it m I s they both live in Michigan, my 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.000 my dad and my father in law. And that was 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.800 a birthday gift I think from his wife. And he 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 was able to drive a Ferrari four a d G 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.960 T B and uh he drove something like a hundred 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.839 and fifty miles per hour on the track and it 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.960 was just like super quick accelerating car, you know, zero 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.520 to sixty and like two point eight seconds or something 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.000 like that, really quick. It was just a thrill for him. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.400 He's a Corvette owner, so he has a a Corvette. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.320 You know that he drives not daily, but you know 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.719 he drives it often enough. And I said, it's a 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.200 night and day difference between the Corvette and Ferrari said. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.719 It was just an incredible feeling, you know, great sensation 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.159 to be able to do something like that. And and honestly, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.200 you know, these packages, I know that they're kind of expensive. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.039 They cost you know, a couple hundred bucks when you 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.840 when you do them, but um, and I thought up 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.240 until the point that I decided to do my own 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.440 experience or you know, I received it as a gift. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.720 I was thrilled with it. I kind of thought, well, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.520 it seems like it might be kind of a waste 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.279 of money, and I think a lot of people feel 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.040 that way that, you know, why would I spend three 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.880 fifty or four hundred or even five dollars or more 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.480 on something that only lasts a couple of hours. You 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.599 don't get to keep the car by any means, obviously, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.000 you don't get to drive it for the full day. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.520 You don't even get to drive it and show off 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.760 to your friends or anything, you know, driving around you know, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.040 the city that you live, unless you're renting a car 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.680 for the day, which is something totally different. Um. But 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.000 these experiences allow you to kind of push that car 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.360 to the maximum, and you've got you know, professional instructor 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.880 there with you, and um is, it's a lot of fun. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.680 And I'll be honest with you. I at first I thought, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.800 that's an awful lot of money because the experience that 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.359 I did, um the Porsche driving experience here in Atlanta, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.359 and the price was somewhere around three hundred and sixty 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.119 five dollars I think at the time, three fifties somewhere 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.080 around there. And again it was a gift, and I thought, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.799 oh boy, it's it's really this is an expensive gift. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.159 I don't know if I'm gonna enjoy its worth, you know, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.200 And just the small amount of time that you get. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.360 You only get an hour on the track, and um, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.400 you think that that's not enough time really to fully 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.120 experience the vehicle. But I was completely wrong, and I'll 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.360 tell you why in just a moment after we take 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:41.000 a break for a word from our sponsor and we're back. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.280 And just before the break, we were talking about how 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.400 I had gone to the Porsche Driving Experience here in Atlanta, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.400 and this is kind of a big deal around here. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.159 And I would guess that you know, any town that 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.680 something like this appears in, it kind of becomes a 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.920 big deal. And it happens right down by the airport. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.960 And I was fortunate enough to get this as a gift, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.880 and I'm so thank full that I got it. I 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.400 probably it's something that I would not have have done 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:04.760 on my own. I don't think I would have spent 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.520 my own money initially to do this. But now now 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.800 I feel like, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back again. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.520 I know I'm gonna go back again for this because 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.480 it was so thrilling. It was just so it was 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.880 such a fantastic day that it's it's hard to even 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.840 wrap your mind around it. If you haven't ever done 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.120 something like this, it's all you can think about, all 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.960 you can talk about, it's all. It's just it's a 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.120 it's an incredible experience that it's an immersive experience, which 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.840 is really really cool. And I think that a lot 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.320 of them are this way. I'm not so sure that 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.160 you know, the one like my brother did, where you know, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.720 it's a couple of laps in a parking lot, in 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.840 a in an exotic is the same way. It's the Sure, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.600 it's thrilling, it's fun, but it's not exactly what you 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.720 get when you go to something like what I did 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.680 here at the Porsche experience and what other people have 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.600 done with uh, you know, the NASCAR experiences that happened, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.000 you know at some of the bigger tracks. I don't 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.679 know if you know, like some of the other tracks 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.880 do it. I know Michigan International Speedway does it up 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.400 in Michigan, But I don't know if you know, like 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.840 Talladegaer Dayton or any of those do it. I think 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.680 that there are some of these across the United States 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.960 at different places that you can O two and they 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.120 are more immersive. You go through a little bit of 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.520 a schooling process, you know, where they teach you exactly 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.560 what to expect when you get out there, etcetera. UM. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.200 That's where this one that I'm going to tell you 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.320 about differs a little bit. But you do get trained 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.160 on them. You do get you know, the an idea 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.280 of what what to do, some of the rules of 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.000 the of the racing. Because you are out there with 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.840 other people on the track at the same time, it's 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.320 not that you know you're the only one out there. UM, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.240 and that makes it even more exciting for a lot 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.680 of people. You know you're getting passed, you're passing. It's 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.200 just it gives another level to it, you know, the 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.280 whole different experience again, this one that I did. If 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.480 you and I'm not selling this by any means, but 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.880 if you go to the Porsche Experience UM Atlanta or 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.200 search the keyword and you'll find you know exactly what 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.760 I'm talking about. Here. You can look at a map 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.319 of the course that they have, which is it's huge. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.520 It's right by the airport here in Atlanta, and they 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.880 have several of these. They have one I believe it's 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.520 in California. They have one in Alabama, and they have 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.040 one in um, I'm sorry, Louisiana rather and here in Atlanta, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.280 of course, and they have for the track. I mean, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.040 it's it's a norm, it really is. It's a great 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.600 big facility and there's an office space down there as well, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.080 so people work on the property, you know, daily Monday 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.160 through Friday, nine five whatever. But the track is also there. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.720 And what's really interesting about this you can you can 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.320 look at the online and look at the map and 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.320 um it's I think it's over one point six miles 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.120 of track that they have, and there's several different modules 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.880 or experiences that you can do within this track. There 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.000 isn't a separate off road circuit. So if you're looking 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.200 at one of the uh, one of the off road vehicles, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.120 you know, the the SUVs that that Porcha makes, you 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.880 can do that. But the stuff that I was doing 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.480 it was, you know, the road course and there's some 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.880 low friction handling circuits and things like that. I'll tell 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.280 you about us in just a second, but this is 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.400 one of those experiences where, um, again I don't think 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.760 I would have paid for this on my own, but 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.240 I was so happy to get it as a gift, 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.640 and I went on St. Patrick's Day in two thousand eighteen. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.559 So it's been over a years since I've been there, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.079 and I still think about it a lot. I mean, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.760 it's something that I want to go back and do again. Um, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.040 if you look at the vehicles, you can choose many, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.720 many different vehicles, you know, all of the Porta lineup, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.400 and and it varies in cost from I guess I 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.760 think it gets really very expensive up at the top end. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.080 But if you scroll all the way to the bottom. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.160 And this is not not a knock on anybody who 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:09.960 bought me this gift. I'll tell you that I was 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.400 able to get into the sevent eighteen Boxer, and I 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.800 think I was in the Boxer s actually for about 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.160 three and sixty five dollars, That's what I said. It's 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.360 an hour and a half. It's a three horsepower car. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.920 Zero to sixty is and four point five seconds to 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.679 top speed is around a hundred and seventy miles per hour. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.840 You're not going that fast on this course, but you 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.320 you're not even gonna notice that, you don't. I'll tell 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.839 you the whole time that I was doing this, I 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.000 don't think I ever looked at the spedometer. It just 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.959 wasn't a concern. And I don't know you think that 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.600 that's Uh, it's kind of counterintuitive because you're in a Porsche, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.480 you're on a racetrack. You think you want to know 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.199 how fast you're going. It's more of a sensation thing. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.360 It's more of how you feel when you're going that 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.760 fast and you're learning. You've got an instructor next to you. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.920 That's it's kind of teaching you the way, the whole 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.600 thing right from the very beginning. As soon as you 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.720 get there. You walk out on the tarmac and you 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.400 get in your car. You don't have to go to 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.920 a course. You don't have to go to like, you know, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.080 an hour long course. Of this hour and a half 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.480 that we're talking about, you know that you're purchasing is 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.760 a true hour and a half in the car. You're 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.839 in the seat for an hour and a half. And 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.040 it's amazing. It's more time than you could you could 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.319 even imagine. I mean, it feels like you're in there 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.560 half the day. Really, it does feel like a long 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.480 long time. And uh, and that's really good because you 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.440 get to do just about everything Uh, this course that 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.480 that I was on, or the you know, the driving 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.760 experience here in Atlanta. Again, it's right, it's on the 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.520 property of the airport. Uh so you've got you know, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.560 huge jets flying overhead. It's really it's it's a really 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.880 interesting and beautiful setup that they have. It's a it's 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.640 a really pretty course, if you want to put it 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.920 that way. There is a there's a one mile handling circuit, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.000 which is you know, like a big race track that 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.440 goes all the way around and that's kind of like 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.920 your well, it's like I guess where you kind of 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.079 max out the car. Really, I mean, you're able to 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.760 to test the corner and you're able to test the acceleration, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.240 the breaking, all of that and uh and they will 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.920 kind of help you along as you go. And you know, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.800 I tell you points to look at. This is your 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.760 your target point. You're gonna want to look at this 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.160 as you accelerate and then break really hard right here. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.520 You know, that kind of instruction is being given to 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.000 you for several laps until you get the hang of it, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.360 and then they kind of let you go on your 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.720 own with the instructor still next to you. Of course. Uh, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.880 They also have a wet or a low friction circle, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.320 which is kind of an inward sloping polished concrete area 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.920 that has water spraying onto it. And uh, that's where 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.840 you can kind of test out your drifting capabilities, you know, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 your your abilities, I should say. Um. They also have 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.600 a low friction handling circuit, which is imagine that same 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.280 material that that polished concrete, you know that's slick and 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.679 you know it's got water spraying on it. Imagine a 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.960 low friction handling circuit which has you know, several off 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.439 camera turns and turns that are that are sloped the 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.640 right way and the opposite way so that you know, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.480 the back end slides out and you can test you know, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.880 understeer oversteer in this area. And it's that's really challenging. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.520 That's a very difficult part of it, and it's a 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.000 very small part of the course. But um again it's 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.000 it's it's very challenging. You can do that over and 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.640 over again. There's also I mentioned the you know, the 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.520 off road circuit. That's one thing I didn't get to 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.200 the off road circuit obviously in the car that I 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.600 was in the box r S. There is also a 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.240 dynamics area, which is where you test the launch control 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.520 and you can do kind of a solemn course, you know, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.640 with with cones set up and h they tell you 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.400 how to do that. They you know what, there's there's 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.160 a lot of fun things about each one of these 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.920 and I'll tell you about that as we get to 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.240 it here. And then there's also something this is maybe 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.560 one of my favorite parts of this whole thing, and 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.280 it's hard to judge, you know, which one is my 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.800 favorite part. But they have something called a kickplate, and 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.640 I'll tell you about the kickplate in just a moment. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.960 But when you first get in the vehicle, so when 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.960 you start this whole thing, you get right in the 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.480 car and you head out on the course and they 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.679 tell you, you know, watch for traffic. You know, when 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.000 you're when you're passing somebody. Um you always you always 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.320 wait for my instruction to pass, you know, because they 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.560 have communication between the vehicles. There are other cars on 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.959 the course, and there are other different types of vehicles 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.559 on the course, so you know, there'll be nine elevens 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.040 out on the course, they'll be boxers out on the course. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.920 At the same time, there's gonna be panameras out on 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.800 the course. UM. This place, this facility allows you to 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.280 if you want to, you can pick up your brand 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.199 new Porsche there and you can get kind of a 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.080 little bit of instruct and with your new vehicle and 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.960 pick up your vehicle from this facility if you want to, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.720 if you if you've ordered it here in town or 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.440 you know somewhere nearby, that you want to do this 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.520 UM so that you know, you get a little bit 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.640 of experience behind the wheel in this performance vehicle before 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.280 you take it home, which I think is really cool. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.120 So you can have new delivery of your vehicle there, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.400 or you can just test out all these vehicles. So 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.000 let's say that you go to the dealership and you 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.920 want to know what it's like to drive a GT three. UM, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.560 you can do that. It's gonna cost quite a bit 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.400 of money to be able to do that, but you 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.120 can go and drive you know, their ultimate top end vehicle. UM. Again, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.760 it's gonna cost quite a bit more than you know 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.320 the Boxer experience. But you know there's every level in 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.800 between there as well, So you know, choose which one 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.800 you find most interesting to you're the one that you 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.280 want to do the most. The Boxer was plenty. I'll 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.160 tell you to get the full experience that you don't 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.080 need to worry about that. It's it's a lot of fun. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.160 And to be honest, you know, the first thing that 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.360 you do is you go out on the one mile 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.800 handling circuit and you don't take it slow, but you 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.960 go slower than you will later in the day. Obviously 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.200 on your first lap, first couple of laps, maybe as 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.360 the instructor gives you instruction, you know where you should 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.560 be and how to fall all the right the appropriate 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.360 lines around the track. And I'll tell you when I 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.360 first started this, it was it was a dry morning, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.480 but it was cloudy, overcast, and eventually later in the 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.680 day it began to rain, and I thought that would 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.720 just kind of ruin the experience, but it did not. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.720 It actually made it more interesting to have like half 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.440 of the day in the dry weather, half the day 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.800 and the wet weather. And uh later you know, you've 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.600 got so much experience on this course that uh, some 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.160 of the times on the wet course we're just as fast, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.480 if not faster, than on the dry track. At the 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.000 beginning of the day, because you become more familiar with 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.040 the vehicle and you're able to drive it even even 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.880 uh uh push it more to its maximum, I guess, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.440 um in a lot of ways. And uh So you 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.080 start out on the handling circuit and you just go 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.840 pretty much. I mean, you feel like you're going flat out. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.720 It's it's unbelievable how quick you can go on this 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.960 and the feeling of being able to do that in 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.120 a controlled environment, you know, with with an instructor near you, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.120 and you know you've got the insurance in the car 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:56.840 and everything, and you feel good about it and you 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.280 feel comfortable with it. Um they allow you to kind 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.760 of push a little for other and if you're hitting 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.840 your marks, they allow you to go a little bit faster, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.480 they allow you to push it a little bit harder, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.720 and they kind of back off on the instruction and 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.160 allow you to do what you want to do with 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.360 the car. And and that's all very very helpful. It's 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.320 just it's a it's a blast. It's a lot of fun. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.720