Next Doc Wong Driving Skills and Tour Clinic-Saturday March 18, 2006!
 

Hi,

We're doing a "Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic" on March 18th!

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 - Judging Entry Speeds"

Date: Saturday March 18, 2006

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 [email]DocWong@aol.com[/email] 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: [url]www.docwong.com[/url]).

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

[url]http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=250&addtohistory=&address=1391+Woodside+Road&city=Redwood+City&state=CA&zipcode=94061&submit=Get+Map[/url]
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Active Life Medical Center
1391 Woodside Road, Suite 200
Redwood City, CA 94061
(650) 365-7775
Drive well!

Doc Wong
[url]http://www.docwong.com[/url]
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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Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic dates:

Saturday, February 18, 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"

Two weeks away!

if i have my car by then(fingers crossed) then i will be there

Saturday...

possibly raining tommarrow...

Cool drive, didn't see as many Subarus out this time as before. Awesome weather today.

[QUOTE=ZK]Cool drive, didn't see as many Subarus out this time as before. Awesome weather today.[/QUOTE]


Were you the person driving the WRX sedan with the rally roof vent? I was in the wagon.

Lots of people (20+) today. People were driving faster. I felt a lot safer and less pressure from behind during the last several drives when the weather was rainy.

The drive isn't as fun after lunch because there is more traffic on the roads and the routes go pass more populated areas. I went back to SJ via Pescadero Road -> Alpine Rd -> Skyline -> highway 9 -> saratoga

The latter half of pescadero road and all of alpine road was lots of fun!

The blue WRX belongs to Broom_dude and I drove the black rsx. Anyways here are my pictures. I had a lot fun thanks guys.

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[QUOTE=pingu]Were you the person driving the WRX sedan with the rally roof vent? I was in the wagon.

Lots of people (20+) today. People were driving faster. I felt a lot safer and less pressure from behind during the last several drives when the weather was rainy.

The drive isn't as fun after lunch because there is more traffic on the roads and the routes go pass more populated areas. I went back to SJ via Pescadero Road -> Alpine Rd -> Skyline -> highway 9 -> saratoga

The latter half of pescadero road and all of alpine road was lots of fun![/QUOTE]

I was in the silver Evo... I liked the quicker pace - it made for a more enjoyable drive. I actually had more fun after lunch. The roads were tighter and more twisty with not as much bumpiness than earlier. Also, I learned my lesson from the past drive - if you want to drive faster, be in front.

I really do think DocWong's drives would benefit more with a smaller group. It's hard to keep your own pace if you're stuck behind someone, the people behind get cut off from the group when other cars break the caravan and overall a small group attracts less attention.

[quote]he blue WRX belongs to Broom_dude and I drove the black rsx. Anyways here are my pictures. I had a lot fun thanks guys. [/quote]

Nice meeting you, I think I caught you guys on the 35 heading back to SF. That's a pretty fun section too. :)

[QUOTE=ZK]I was in the silver Evo... I liked the quicker pace - it made for a more enjoyable drive. I actually had more fun after lunch. The roads were tighter and more twisty with not as much bumpiness than earlier. Also, I learned my lesson from the past drive - if you want to drive faster, be in front.

I really do think DocWong's drives would benefit more with a smaller group. It's hard to keep your own pace if you're stuck behind someone, the people behind get cut off from the group when other cars break the caravan and overall a small group attracts less attention.



Nice meeting you, I think I caught you guys on the 35 heading back to SF. That's a pretty fun section too. :)[/QUOTE]


Yeah, I agree that the group was too big. I've been in the back for two of the drives and the worst thing is getting separated from the rest of the pack by local cars. I think 6-8 cars in one group would be ideal and each group would have its own pace.

Faster drivers should go towards the front, but if they are stuck behind someone they shouldn't be tailgating for prolonged periods especially when there isn't a good spot for the slower driver to pull over. I saw this crazy MR2 tailing the red Miata rather too closely. Also the MR2 was fishtailing a few times on straightaways for reasons that are a mystery to me.

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I think the drive was fine. I didn't like the road surface and the narrow section (only fit one car) that we passed through. Most of the time, I was stuck behind traffic..... However, the downhill part with cliffs and wet spots on the road was kinda exciting.

I learned a lot for that day's experience. I realize more and more that my driving skills suck because there are a lot of things that I need to improve on. Also, I still need to tweak my car's settings.

The best part was when I was heading home, something like this [url]http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/chevrolet_hhr_ls_2006/17331/style_overview.html;_ylt=AjtLUqxKb6tGexYVk5ZmiAlp78gF[/url]
gave me a hard time on the twisties . I was impressed by the driver's skills, he drove slow on the straight and really fast when he was going down hill. I can barely keep up with it during the downhill turns. Later on, he let me passed him on the straight (I had been follow it for like 15mins or so). I tried to lose him but he kept up with me nicely (within a turn or two). I bet he can even pass me if he was serious.... Too bad I didn't have a chace to give him a thumb up.

[QUOTE=broom_dude]
The best part was when I was heading home, something like this [url]http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/chevrolet_hhr_ls_2006/17331/style_overview.html;_ylt=AjtLUqxKb6tGexYVk5ZmiAlp78gF[/url]
gave me a hard time on the twisties . I was impressed by the driver's skills, he drove slow on the straight and really fast when he was going down hill. I can barely keep up with it during the downhill turns. Later on, he let me passed him on the straight (I had been follow it for like 15mins or so). I tried to lose him but he kept up with me nicely (within a turn or two). I bet he can even pass me if he was serious.... Too bad I didn't have a chace to give him a thumb up.[/QUOTE]

It is probably one of the people who live there. They drive the roads every day so they know the roads pretty well. You'd be surprised what they can do when you know the roads no matter what you drive. In the end, it's really not about what you drive, it's about whether you know how to drive it! :)

If you really want to learn to push yourself go out to autocross or a track day, you'll learn so much about your car and yourself in a safe environment.