First, we were being taught on how to handle our steering, what is oversteer and what is understeer, what is the right seat position of the driver for the car. Besides, it also explained to us for the built in functionalities in our car. Following this, we were being lead by our intructor to start the three practices of the program.
Mr. Razman is the intructor of our group (with 7 persons). He is an experienced instructor who have worked at F1 Sepang Circuit, Shell Tank Training Center before. He shared a lot of driving experience with us.
First Practice: Testing of ABS
We were asked to drive at the speed of 60km, and were asked to pedal on our brake to the maximum to test the ABS built in our car. After this, we were asked to do the same braking while steering our car to aside to avoid our car from banging the barrier (the barrier is just the cones, hahahaha)... With this, we able to feel and experience the power of ABS in our car. When the maximum braking is made, and triggered ABS, there's a sound of brake and tyres. This practice sounded easy but in fact it's quite tough.
Second Practice: Steering and Slalom Test
We were asked to drive in a pre-designed path to pratice our right way of steering, with 9-3 o'clock hand position and Cross Steer. Instructor will be seeing us on how to steer our car and correcting us by sending instruction to us thru the walkie-talkie that was placed in our car. So we will listen to his instruction and practice. This is not a too hard for us to learn.
Third Practice: Skid a Car with EPS
The most exciting and scary practice for us, was the one that we have to drive and try to skid the car. For this exercise, we were using SDAC provided car, is a Ford Focus. We experienced the car handling without EPS on and with EPS on. It a big difference with EPS on, where it shown us how traction control works to stabilize the car and recover the car from its sideway motion. This is the toughest practice to us yet is the mose exciting and interesting practice we have done.
Picture copied from Motor Trader >> The driver in the picture is ME!!! with Mr Razman, the instructor.
Overall this is a beneficial program I have attended, it came with a certificate of attendance, plus a goodie bag with a 1 polo t, 1 t-shirt, 1 table calendar, 1 thumb drive, 1 notepad and 1 ford focus model (soft toy type). I found it's worth with the RM50 I paid for the program.
Here, this is my lovely fofi that I never disclosed in my blog... See, nice car right?
