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[eiffel_71]

We had Celebrations AND Roses on the nibbles table this morning *x*

Driving lesson after work, just one hour with it being so late in the day. Peter reckoned I was getting a lot better, and just had to work on my steering - I'm still putting too much on, so then having to overcompensate; I need to master the art of push-pull - and my speed going round corners (I'm guilty of coming off the brake as soon as I put the clutch down to change gear).

Vodafone have paid up the £54.33. Into my bank account. Thank goodness that's over.

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[nice-guy-but.livejournal.com]

I reckon an hour's driving lesson is enough personally. I learnt with BSM, and their policy at the time was to have a two-hour lesson immediately before your test. After two hours' driving I'm fairly knackered nowadays, let alone when I was having to concentrate on everything I was doing, so it's no surprise I failed twice. When I took my third test it was in my mum's car, when I had a practice hour in the morning and a nice break between that and the test, so I passed.

I know your driving instructor won't approve, but the racing maxim of "slow in, fast out" for entering and exiting corners is pretty good practice, in that you slow and set yourself up for the corner on the way in, then you accelerate out and are checking for what's coming up on the way out.

The best advice I can give is to get a good feel for the car you're driving. For example you can feel when you're going into a corner too fast, or steering too hard, or revving too much, because of the feedback you get from the car. Smoothness is the key.

And I still don't believe push-pull steering is the best method, I only know one person who still does it after passing his test, but he's a stickler for doing as he's told so it's no surprise he won't follow his own path.