Hi,

I think there is a misktake in Doc's email. I believe this month's course is actually "Driving Skills - Weight Transfer Effects".

-pablo

Here is the message from Doc:
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Next Doc Wong Driving Skills and Tour Clinic-Sunday April 25, 2004!

Hi,

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

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.

This month's topic: “Driving Skills – Tire Pressuresand Tire Selection�

Date: Sunday April 25, 2004

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 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 to Skyline Blvd.

From there, we head down Hwy 84 (name now changed to La Honda Road).
From San Gregorio, we go 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...submit=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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Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic dates:

Sunday April 25, 2004 "Driving Skills - Weight Transfer Effects"

Saturday May 22, 2004 "Driving Skills - Smooth Inputs"
Saturday June 26, 2004 “Driving Skills – Steering Wheel Control and Body Position"
Saturday July 24, 2004 “Driving Skills – Brake andThrottle Control�
Saturday August 7, 2004 “Driving Skills – Lines of Travel�
Saturday September 11, 2004 “Driving Skills – Heel and ToeShifting�
Sunday October 10, 2004 “Driving Skills – Causes and Solutions to Understeering�
Sunday November 7, 2004 "Driving Skills - Causes and Solutions to Oversteering"

 

PABLO: It was nice meeting you . that was a fun ride. see you again soon. good luck with the feathering. Jack: black Z

 

Thanks Jack. The Z is in the shop getting right now getting new brand new fronts and an aligment job.

 

sorry i missed this one guys. i didn't get home from the HIN show on Saturday until 3 AM. Was there a big turnout?

 

hi,
We had a good turnout at the class. I put the posting up kind of late in the game this time, so I will try to post earlier next month when Doc sends me the email. There were only 2 Zs and one G35 coupe there. There were about 15 cars total...a lot of new mustang mach 1s as usual, an acura nsx, 3 or 4 boxsters, an RX-8, a MR2, and a Celica.

 

wow. last month i went and i was the only z. i would have liked to been there.

 

Cool. Last month I put the post up, but I didn't show up to Doc's class. Surprised no one else showed up--everytime I got there is at least one other Z. I got called into work for an emergency, otherwise I would have been there.
It was a great day to be out driving, but too many people on the road. I nearly got run off the road by a land rover. One of the mach1's ran off the road coming down Jamison Creek. Friggin' bicycle rider in the middle of the road made him over react I think. Some minor damage to the mach 1's fendor, front tire, and rim. Everyone was ok. I got to remeber to take it easy down Jamisons Creek and Gazo's creek Rd.

 

Do you guys do the same route every time? Sorry to hear about the mishap with the mustang. Last time I went we passed 2 motorcycles that were crashed on the side of one of those crazy roads we were on. I think they might have been racing. That sobered most of us up so we slowed down a bit, but let me tell you those guys know how to drive. I was flying down that crazy twisty mountain road and some dude in a black mustang was about 2 inches from my rear bumper the entire time and all I kept thinking was "damn, how is this mustang staying on the road so close to me?" that guy had some good skills!

 

Yep, same route every time. One time we changed it up a bit because there was a lot of traffic on hwy 1.
Those guys do know how to drive. Aaron used to drive professionally or semi-pro, and he is doing a lot of track classes with some of thos guys in mach1s. Also keep in mind that a lot of those mach 1s have aftermarket suspensions and tires...

 

Is Aaron the instructor with the M/// ? I think I met him last time.

 

Yep, that is Aaron. He drives a white mach1