[Gary L]

Originally Posted by frogstamper

I think that if you were to ask one hundred men between 20 and 40 how they rated themselves as a driver the majority would certainly put themselves above average, ie "better than most" and when I was that age I would've said the same.
In 1994 I got the chance to put my money where my mouth is my brother-in-law worked for a BMW franchise who'd organised a track day at Brands Hatch.
Basically the morning was spent hammering around the circuit as passengers of the instructors in an array of BMW's, when our turn came in the afternoon the instructor asked all of us how we rated our driving to which nearly all of us said, "well not the best, but certainly above average", then we got our chance...to a man we were all crap in comparison to these instructors.
Its easy putting your foot down and hitting a 140mph in a straight line, but correct braking going into a corner then exiting without losing any speed is a different matter, that day certainly made all of realise that without specialized training we were nowhere near as good as we'd like to think.

Amateurs!