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Enthusiast Essentials: drive the dream this Christmas

17 December, 2015

Give the ultimate motorsport gift experience this Christmas with a Drivers Day experience voucher. Whether you want to feel the incredible acceleration and cornering abilities of a race-prepared V8 Holden at Pukekohe, drive a Formula One–style race car to get your adrenaline pumping, do hot laps in a Ferrari 430, or just drive the new 2014 BMW M3, Drivers Day has a dream motorsport experience option for everyone.

Book for yourself — or give a voucher, valid for 15 months, as a personalized gift — by visiting driversday.nz. Prices start from $175.

Motorman – advancing the skills

26 March, 2026

Of course we are all great drivers — definitely above average — until we find out we aren’t. And finding out in a safe way is clearly the major benefit of driver training and why almost all of us who use motor vehicles should experience it.
Driver training applies to all types of cars and commercial vehicles and logically it is even more applicable to high-performance specialist machines — at least for their drivers and passengers — and, of course, if you are not exploiting or understanding the abilities of your car you are not making the most of it.
When I attended the Porsche Experience Driving Centre in Australia more than 20 years ago, one participant told me, “I’ve had my Porsche parked in the garage for several years and have never known how to use it properly — until now.”