Text: Konstantin Andreev MEDICINES FOR TREATING A MIDDLE CRISIS ARE NOT SO MUCH: GO THROUGH A SAIL, SHOOT FROM THE MAIN CALIBER, FLY INTO SPACE. REGATS AND TANK BATTLES HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN THE STANDARD OF CORPORATE EVENTS, SO NOW ABOUT ONE TRUE REMEDY, TO PERFORM YOURSELF EVALUATION, FROM RECENTLY AVAILABLE ONLINE. Since 2014, the representative offices of DRAGON RACING, an international team of professionals giving the opportunity to participate in body races on “Formal” tracks, have been opened in DUBAI and ABU DABI.
For the pleasure of starting from the pole position and inhaling the aroma of burnt slicks, you have to pay, but the amount really includes everything and even more. A helicopter transfer from the hotel to the 50-km Formula 1 Yas Marina ring in Abu Dhabi or the world's best circuit in Dubai with a 5.39 km ring track. Individual lessons with a trainer speaking the client’s language, including the skills of driving a GT3 class car, as well as the skills of using a radio helmet and other special equipment. Securing the acquired knowledge in practice at the helm of a Ferrari 458 Challenge, McLaren GT 12C Sprint or Radical SR8 LM in conditions of almost real track racing. Camping catering from eminent restaurateurs with the possibility of an individual choice of dishes and drinks. Champagne shower on a pedestal, custom-made jumpsuit and certificate for a long memory.
Dragon Racing chief engineer Jan Bickerton spent 35 years in the paddocks of these tracks, grooming, cherishing and spurring almost all of the “horses” there: Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, Aston Martin, Lancia, Lister, Maserati, GM / Vauxhall, Spice, Jaguar. Now he is responsible for the technical condition of the "dragon" fleet. The head coach of the team Rob Barf has participated in 400 competitions for 27 years of his racing career. These included six victories in the Dubai 24 rally, so the coach did not study local landscapes by Google Maps. Rob concurrently teaches at the Nissan GT Academy and, together with Johnny Herbert, Danny Sullivan, Rene Arnault and Sabina Schmitz, is one of the five strongest bodybuilding trainers in the world.
Beginner on the track is always hard. Of course, none of the coaches will reproach inexperience and scold for the burnt clutch at the price of a good small car. And all the same, at first it is embarrassing: it seems that it is you who are the weakest here, knock down the most number of striped chips and most often fly out onto the lawn.
But this is precisely the art of training, so that the sports drive is fixed at the level of conditioned reflexes. Then everything will go as it should, and you won’t notice how you will learn how to calculate the trajectory of entering the corner at a speed of 200 km / h and accumulate strength for the finish jerk in the aerodynamic corridor on the opponent’s tail. And when at the end of the day the cars drive in circles, like hot horses, in order to cool hot brake discs flickering in the twilight, you understand that you can’t live without it anymore.
