DRIVER'S EDUCATION
Driver's Education Event at Mid-Ohio
Driver Education provides the opportunity to experience the performance potential of your Porsche in a safe, controlled environment. You will receive classroom instruction in safety and high-performance driving techniques, and drive your own car on a road racecourse.
This is not a racing school, but you get instruction from an experienced instructor, who rides with you. You learn proper braking, cornering, and track-reading skills in these two-day events. Safety, medical, and technical requirements must be met.
A typical event is two days long (Saturday & Sunday). In addition to the classroom instruction and on-track driving, you will have opportunities to ride on the track with your instructor, meet a bunch of great people during the day and at a Saturday night dinner if you choose.
Your club is excited to offer two awesome Driver’s Education three-day weekends at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 2025! Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a world-class road course right in our backyard! The circuit is a 2.4 mile, 14 turn course in Lexington, OH with exciting elevation changes. If you have driven there, you know how much fun it is to drive. If you haven’t, it’s time to, for this bucket list experience! Our spring Driver’s Education event is May 2-4 and fall is September 19-21. Both weekends offer classroom and lots of instructed track time for drivers of all levels on Saturday and Sunday and a lapping day on Friday with PCA Expanded Passing for instructors and experienced students.
Mid-Ohio
Spring: (Sponsored by Perma-Tune): May 2-4, 2025
Fall: September 19-21, 2025
Student Sat/Sun DE: $425
Student Fri/Sat/Sun: $645 (Friday for advanced drivers only)
Friday Lapping Day Only - for advanced drivers only: $325 (fee for experienced students and instructors not instructing at this event)
DRIVE-THROUGH Garage Rental (includes 3 days): $375
NON DRIVE-THROUGH Garage Rental (includes 3 days): $290
Approved NOR Event Instructors Sat/Sun: $95
Approved NOR Event Instructors Fri/Sat/Sun: $315
Here are the direct registration links for Clubregistration.net:
Spring: https://clubregistration.net/events/signUp.cfm/event/15269
Fall: https://clubregistration.net/events/signUp.cfm/event/15270
We encourage you to register for the event early as garages usually sell out quickly and the events are typically full with a wait list.
Equipment needed:
Coupes/Targas: A helmet with a 2015 or newer Snell SA, K, or M safety rating. All natural-fiber clothing, fully enclosed shoes (no sandals). Plus your car, of course, in good mechanical condition, which will be verified by a technical inspection performed by a local mechanic or dealer and double-checked at the track.
Cabriolets: All of the above, plus a roll bar.
Boxsters: All of the above. Boxsters have a built-in roll bar. Be sure that the top of your head with helmet on is below the roll bar when in a normal seating position. We use the “broomstick” test. Place a broomstick across the roll bar & top of the windshield. If you sit below that you will be allowed on-track. If you don’t fit, Boxster roll-bar extensions are available that may solve the problem.
For other safety and technical information, contact our Technical & Safety Chair, Jim McFarland at 440.655.4268
Exciting new addition to PCA HPDE program!
PCA has added a new program called Track Experience for those members wanting to try an HPDE experience but not quite decided to commit to a full two day weekend.
Track Experience is a fantastic way to enjoy the fun and excitement of being at the track. You will gather with others for a short classroom session and then be paired with an on-track instructor for a hot lap session. The club has helmets to loan.
You will experience everything an HPDE driver experiences….the corner workers flagging drivers, passes being signaled for overtaking and being overtaken, the thrill of speed on the straights and the cars motion under cornering. And of course the 15 turn road course with a lot of elevation change that is the iconic Mid Ohio Sports Car Course!
We’ll have the sign-up for this on the Club Registration site soon, in the interim please email Lori Bryant to let her know you want to have the best experience of your year!
Friends and family members are welcome to join in but must be 18 years of age or older. Availability may be limited for this opportunity.
See you at the track!