Hi,

Come join us in the fun of driving and touring over 100 miles of awesome roads and scenery! Learn new driving skills, improve your driving, have fun and be a better driver.

You don't need to have had any performance driving experience, but learning a bit more about performance driving can definitely make you a safer driver. Come tour with us, all are welcome!

January's topic: "Driving Skills – Traction Circle"

Date: Saturday, January 6, 2007

Time: 9:00 am 10:30 am for the talk part of the clinic
10:30 am to 3:00 pm for the tour. Lunch in Davenport at 12:30 pm

Place: Active Life Medical-Chiropractic Center
1391 Woodside Road, Suite 200
Redwood City, CA 94061

Register: Just e-mail me at DocWong@aol.com or leave a message on my cell phone at: (650) 400-9887

Cost: $0.00

Here's how the day will go:

We meet at my office at 9am and do the talk/clinic part till about 10:30am.

There will also be a discussion on safety, autocrosses and time trialing.

Then we take off for our tour. We'll stop at Gazos Road and Hwy 1 and the proceed down Hwy 1 to Davenport for lunch. After lunch we take more twisty roads ending up on Hwy 9 and Skyline Blvd (Hwy 35). See below on the complete route and directions to my office.

If you have a family radio bring it. We'll be on Channel 9.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a chiropractor in Redwood City and quite a motorcycle enthusiast and have been organizing the Doc Wong Motorcycle Riding Clincs for the past 7 years (see me web page at: www.docwong.com).

This event however is a car only clinic.

Not too long ago I purchased a Porsche Boxster and a Miata and a whole new world of fun opened up for me. Learning how to really drive the car has been a fun challenge, fortunately much of my motorcycling experience has helped me with that. I'm having a great time in autox and open track days.

The tour/drive will be pretty mellow. The idea is to enjoy the scenery, the drive and to improve our driving skills. So if you're up for a very fast drive, this isn't it.

RIDE ROUTE:
We start at Dr. Wong's office on Woodside Road (Hwy 84) in
Redwood City. We go up Woodside Road, through
Woodside, and on up the hill crossing Skyline Blvd (Hwy 35).

From there, continue down Hwy 84 (name now changed to La Honda Road). Then almost to the ocean, San Gregorio, where you'll see a store and post office. If you actually get to Hwy 1, you've missed the left turn on Stage Road by the store.

From San Gregorio, we turn Left (South) on Stage Road to the
little town of Pescadero (which is a veritable
METROPOLIS compared to San Gregorio).

Then we head east on Pescadero Road a short ways to Cloverdale Road, where we turn south (right) again. We follow Cloverdale road down to Gazos
Creek Road, where we turn west (right).

We follow Gazos Creek Road to Highway 1 where we can take a break. Gas is available here.

Then take a trip down 1 to Davenport, where we stop for lunch.
After lunch, it's south on Highway 1 again to Bonny
Doone Road, where we turn east (left). Don't turn
right there, or you'll be surprised at the lack of
floatation a set of air bags provide. ;-)

Up Bonny Doon Road to Empire Grade. North (left) on Empire Grade to
Jamison Creek Road, down Jamison Creek Road to Highway
236. Right on Highway 236 to Highway 9 in Boulder
Creek. Another short break in Boulder Creek (gas, if
needed), then up Highway 9 (east) to Skyline, where we
assemble at the little rest area there for a final
meeting. After our meeting and bull session, the group
breaks up and everyone is on their own. Hope you can
find your way home from there!

Directions to Active Life Medical Center

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...submit=Get+Map
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Drive well!

Doc Wong
http://www.docwong.com
Arctic Silver/Boxster Red/Bk 1997 Boxster
Red 1991 Miata
Harry K. Wong, D.C.
1391 Woodside Road, Ste 200
Redwood City, CA 94061
Off: (650) 365-7775 Cell: (650) 400-9887
Chiropactic and Alternative Medicine
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Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic dates:

Saturday, January 6, 2007 “Driving Skills – Traction Circle"
Saturday, February 10, 2007 "Driving Skills - Judging Entry Speeds"
Saturday, March 10, 2007 “Driving Skills – Road Surfaces, Configurations, and Tires”

 

Hey Doc,
"it hurts when I do this".... oops, wrong thread!


Seriously,
how many cars do you Anticipate for this event?
which sounds Great btw!

 

Hi, there will be 20-25 drivers!

Doc Wong

 

Hi Doc, I will try to make it this time. Sorry I had to bail last time.

 

No problem see you next time!

Doc

 

Two weeks away!

 

This week!

 

Oh man... early! Well, I'm ready to go~!

 

Doc Wong Driving Clinic - Review:

Thank you Doc for letting us use your office and giving us the clinic. I found the takeaway of the clinic to be very useful and has made me more aware as a driver, and aware of my car.

There is a wide variety of people that attend, from the young S2K driver to the older classics.

I personally will definitely attend the class sessions, but may skip some of the drive afterwards depending on the amount of people attending.

In general the drives afterwards are spirited to aggressive, but depending on the amount of people attending, it makes it hard to practice what I learned in the class while trying not to get lost and maintaining position in a larger group.

Cheers.