Bob Chamut

Allen: Just a note to express how fortunate I feel for having taken your road car racing course. My purpose in attending your school was to re-acquire and sharpen my driving skills in order to be more competent in ordinary road situations, and have some fun and put a big grin on my face. Your schooling attained both objectives. The big grin still ,days later, comes quite unbidden. More importantly I am definitely more competent in at least one respect: the braking exercise on the first morning session ensured that my braking ability was considerably enhanced, so much so that when confronted with a very dangerous situation on my trip to Calgary I was able to avoid a potential ?T- boneing?. South of Calgary while being followed by another vehicle and doing about 110 KMPH a vehicle approached a T intersection at right angles to my direction of travel; the driver seems to have assumed( correctly) that she could pull a safe left hand turn in front of me, however, she had not calculated that the vehicle following me would choose that moment to pass me in which case she would have had a head-on collision if she?d continued. She didn?t. She stopped directly in my path. I had already taken my foot off the accelerator. I don?t remember making a conscious decision(in retrospect there was no room to go to around to my right) but I braked-hard- as I was taught- she could have reached out and caressed the leaping Jaguar on my hood when I came to a stop. I am firmly convinced that prior to my training in your school a very bad accident would have occurred. Thank you. Please continue your newsletter to me- you never know when I might holiday in California with or without Camaro! Best wishes! Bob Chamut, A Very Satisfied Client