The last time I had driving lessons I was 15 years old in high school driver’s ed. class-way back when the prevailing wisdom was that teaching kids to drive was a worthy course in the school curriculum.
I’m proud to say I still use many of the traffic-handling tips I learned those many years ago from Coach Hawkes.
I’m less proud to say that from the moment I began driving I’ve occasionally tested both limits and laws while behind the wheel. Never in a carefree, reck- less way, but I do like driving fast and I enjoy a good road.
Driving fast and cutting hard into curves were never part of my formal education in the boxy brown Chrysler K car I used in driver’s ed.-which consisted mainly of turning, merging and parallel parking. So it was quite a step up when I visited the Porsche Sport Driving School at
Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham, Alabama.