Next Doc Wong Driving Skills and Tour Clinic-Saturday Dec 17, 2005

Hi,

We're doing a "Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic this weekend!

Come join us in the fun of driving and touring over 100 miles of awesome roads and scenery!* Learn new driving skills, improve your driving, have fun and be a better driver.

You don't need to have had any performance driving experience, but learning a bit more about performance driving can definitely make you a safer driver.* Come tour with us, all are welcome!

This month's topic: “Driving Skills – Field of Vision”

Date:* Saturday December 17, 2005

Time: 9:00 am 10:30 am for the talk part of the clinic
******** 10:30 am to 3:00 pm for the tour.* Lunch in Davenport at 12:30 pm

Place: Active Life Medical-Chiropractic Center
1391 Woodside Road,
Suite 200
Redwood City, CA 94061

Register:* Just e-mail me at DocWong@aol.com or leave a message on my cell phone at: (650) 400-9887

Cost: $0.00

Here's how the day will go:

We meet at my office at 9am and do the talk/clinic part till about 10:30am.*

Guest instructors:

Aaron Tachibania: SCCA GTU & GTO driver/owner of Datsun 510, Datsun 280ZX Turbo and Pantera. Finished 4th as a privateer GTU.* Currently organizes Car track days for seat time.

or

Chuck McCalmet: President's Cup, Tri-State Championship winner, Marlboro, VIR, Bridgehamptom, IRP, Loudon Enduro Karts winner, race instructor, has tested in a Lotus 23 with the lap record, owned and raced a Shelby GT 350.* Past Team Manager and Mechanic with the USA Karting team winning the World Championship in Hong Kong in 1972.* He currently drives a Beck 550 Spyder and 911SC!

There will also be a discussion on safety, autocrosses and time trialing.

Then we take off for our tour.* We'll stop at Gazos Road and Hwy 1 and the proceed down Hwy 1 to Davenport for lunch.* After lunch we take more twisty roads ending up on Hwy 9 and Skyline Blvd (Hwy 35).* See below on the complete route and directions to my office.

If you have a family radio bring it.* We'll be on Channel 9

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a chiropractor in Redwood City and quite a motorcycle enthusiast and have been organizing the Doc Wong Motorcycle Riding Clincs for the past 7 years (see me web page at:* www.docwong.com).

This event however is a car only clinic.

Not too long ago I purchased a Porsche Boxster and a Miata and a whole new world of fun opened up for me.* Learning how to really drive the car has been a fun challange, fortunately much of my motorcycling experience has helped me with that.* I'm having a great time in autox and open track days.

The tour/drive will be pretty mellow.* The idea is to enjoy the scenery, the drive and to improve our driving skills.* So if you're up for a very fast drive, this isn't it.

RIDE ROUTE:
We start at Dr. Wong's office on Woodside Road (Hwy 84) in
Redwood City.* We go up Woodside Road, through
Woodside, and on up the hill crossing Skyline Blvd (Hwy 35).

From there, continue down Hwy 84 (name now changed to La Honda Road). Then almost to the ocean, San Gregorio, where you'll see a store and post office. If you actually get to Hwy 1, you've missed the left turn on Stage Road by the store.

From San Gregorio, we turn Left (South) on Stage Road to the
little town of Pescadero (which is a veritable
METROPOLIS compared to San Gregorio).

Then we head east on Pescadero Road a short ways to Cloverdale Road, where we turn south (right) again.* We follow Cloverdale road down to Gazos
Creek Road, where we turn west (right).

We follow Gazos Creek Road to Highway 1 where we can take a break.* Gas is available here.

Then take a trip down 1 to Davenport, where we stop for lunch.
After lunch, it's south on Highway 1 again to Bonny
Doone Road, where we turn east (left).* Don't turn
right there, or you'll be surprised at the lack of
floatation a set of air bags provide.* ;-)

Up Bonny Doon Road to Empire Grade. North (left) on Empire Grade to
Jamison Creek Road, down Jamison Creek Road to Highway
236.* Right on Highway 236 to Highway 9 in Boulder
Creek.* Another short break in Boulder Creek (gas, if
needed), then up Highway 9 (east) to Skyline, where we
assemble at the little rest area there for a final
meeting.* After our meeting and bull session, the group
breaks up and everyone is on their own.* Hope you can
find your way home from there!

Directions to Active Life Medical Center

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...bmit=Get+Map**
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**** Active Life Medical Center
**** 1391 Woodside Road, Suite 200
**** Redwood City, CA 94061
**** (650) 365-7775
Drive well!

Doc Wong
http://www.docwong.com
Arctic Silver/Boxster Red/Bk 1997 Boxster
Red 1991 Miata
Harry K. Wong, D.C.
1391 Woodside Road, Ste 200
Redwood City, CA 94061
Off:* (650) 365-7775 Cell: (650) 400-9887
Chiropactic and Alternative Medicine
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Saturday December 17, 2005 "Driving Skills - Field of Vision"

Saturday, January 14, 2006 “Driving Skills – Traction Circle"
Saturday, February 25, 2006 "Driving Skills - Judging Entry Speeds"
Saturday, March 18, 2006 “Driving Skills – Road Surfaces, Configurations, and Tires”
Saturday, April 15, 2006 "Driving Skills - Weight Transfer Effects"
Saturday, May 20, 2006 “Driving Skills – Smooth Inputs"
Saturday, June 17, 2006 “Driving Skills – Steering Wheel Control and Body Position"
Saturday, July 15, 2006 “Driving Skills – Brake and Throttle Control”
Saturday, August 12, 2006 “Driving Skills – Lines of Travel”
Saturday, September 16, 2006 “Driving Skills – Heel and Toe Shifting”
Saturday, October 21, 2006 “Driving Skills – Causes and Solutions to Understeering”
Saturday, November 11, 2006 "Driving Skills - Causes and Solutions to Oversteering"
Saturday, December 9, 2006 "Driving Skills - Field of Vision"

 

Looks good, I guess this would be a good time for me to test out my new camera & lenses during the break spots.

 

Doc! whoa! good to hear from you, I thought you had fallen off the earth or something. Glad to see you're still doing the driving courses. I think I may have to join the group for this one.

Charlie - If you are interested in doing this, lemme know, we can caravan down there or something.

-Ted

 

this sounds good and interesting,im in since im off that day.

 

Got to check whats on my plate but. It sounds like alot of fun.

 

I'm actually interested in this - so long as I don't get too drunk on my birthday.

 

Very interested. Is there a deadline for registration? Usually how big the crowd do you have in such drives? Thanks a lot.

 

I might have to take the day off to come out.

 

I have a final on that day.............

 

No Sunday dates in '06 = teh suxorz

 

well, I have 2 words for you...... "Pace Yourself"

ya know, it IS possible to have a few drinks on your birthday but not get so smashed you are hung over the next day.

-Ted

 

this looks so great...are these guys pretty mellow drivers? - i.e. i'll be fine in a stock wrx with a passenger?

 

yes, you'll be fine.....its a "spirited drive" but not crazy or illegal, if you catch my drift, all rules of the road will be followed (for the most part ). Besides, if its raining, it will be even more mellow. EDIT: but definitely NOT boring, It'll be fun. I havent been on one of these drives yet either, but I have heard many stories/reviews of past classes/drives, and every usually has a blast.

-Ted

 

so is it on dec. 17th? or on dec. 10th? his site says saturday, dec. 9th.. but that's a friday.

 

hmmm this looks like it might be good....