Gnil:
I believe more power does bring more chances to have an accident when young . It is hard to judge properly how much power you can use in tricky situations . The lower , the less chances the mistakes .
I am also not in favor for too much driving aids when young as one needs to learn . My kids will have a manual shift car , with front wheel drive , not too powerful .
Courses like yours will take is the best thing one can do . At the same time it teaches them to drive fast , which can be misused by young man , specially when with friends .
The son of a good friend took his drivers licence in Miami ( they moved there for 3 years ) . The licence was a joke . All was done on a parking lot . And for starting from standstill on a hill ....... they just had to '' imagine '' there was a hill The licence was done with an automatic .
As the US and the Swiss have an exchange agreement , when he got back he was just given his Swiss licence . The guy is now 20 and can't drive anything else then an automatic Pretty embarrassing over here .
I believe you get the best basics when young , so a harder car to drive is actually better !
BTW : My middle son , 13 years old , will be joining me and the Lambo club to go on the track in September and will be allowed to drive my RS around the track
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964 Carrera 4 -- 997.2 C2S , -20mm -- 991 GT3 RS
You son is a very lucky boy then!
The driving test in all of North America, be it USA or Canada, not just Miami is a joke. They will give a license to just about anything with 2 legs and 2 arms. It's way too easy to get a license here as everything thinks driving is a entitlement, not a privilege like in Europe. 90% of the people here with a license will fail the German license test. It's not even funny the bad drivers I have to deal with every day here.
The Mercedes school is accredited young driver driving school. By completing that they get 6 months taken off their probation period, which is normally 2 years after first getting their license.
The track school will be for him to safely explore the power of the car, and get use to how much power will come on with regards to how deep one goes into the throttle. He will also get a chance to explore the car with driving aids off.
This winter I will likely sign him up to do Camp4 and learn basic car control. Not the European course as they require participants to be 18 and up. The driving age in Canada is 16 so I believe he can do the Canadian Camp4.
He really isn't keen on driving though, he would rather be driven around instead of driving himself
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