Street Survival 2010

OVR will be hosting a Street Survival program again for 2010. The date that has been selected is Saturday June 26th and the event will be held at the OSU Buckeye lot at the corner of Ackermen and Fred Taylor on the OSU campus. This event is a great way for OVR and the SCCA to reach out to the community. The event is a day of driving instruction for young drivers who have just gotten their license. Where driver's school leaves off, we pick up. In this program we try to talk about and teach students to make wise driving decisions out on the road. Most teen accidents happen when teens are put into situations they are not familiar with and react poorly. Our job is to simulate real world situations and help the students learn to react properly in a way to avoid or minimize a potentially deadly vehicle situation. We can do that safely in an open parking lot with instructors riding along with the students.

The program includes a lot of hands on driving situations and some classroom instruction. The class includes sections on emergency braking, emergency lane changes, dealing with changing surface conditions, awareness of other vehicles, and the dangers of in car distractions. The class is $75.00 for the day and includes lunch for the students. More information can be found at streetsurvival.org or by reading about our 2008 event on the web site.

We would like to ask our club members to spread the word about this event. Please post information at work and let friends and family know. Parents of the teens are our best audience and we want to make this event a success again this year.

We are also looking for sponsors and instructors for this year's event. This is NOT a racing school and anyone with a driver's license can be an instructor. Instruction materials will be provided prior to the event outlining how to execute the drills and what types of things to talk to the students about. Please contact me if you are interested in being an instructor. At our last event we had a good mix of solo and road race participants and I would love to see even more this year. The closer we come to a 1:1 instructor to student ratio the better for both students and instructors.

Andy Bell
614-847-9921
bellboyracing@sbcglobal.net