AM Skills, Novice HP & PM Lapping at ProFormance Racing School

Posted on May 26, 2016 by admin

26 May 2016 Kent, WA – The fact of a full classroom shows how many people realize the importance of what ProFormance Racing School can give them.

The expert staff take you thru four different exercises that once taught at the slower speeds translates into higher speed reactions to hazards. Learning to see further ahead seams easy, you have done that all your life, understanding the why is what you learn. Then putting into practice on the track what you have learned is a joy to watch as even
the timid have no issues.

Want to increase you own driving skills check the “new” ProFormance web site for the next date.

Images from the sessions today are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

Toyota/Scion/Lexus Event at Pacific Raceways

Posted on May 22, 2016 by admin

22 May 2016 Kent, WA – A new event has been added to the 2016 goings on at Pacific Raceways. The TSL has new legs and is just getting off the ground. It displays a combination of cars on the paddock with a lead/follow on the road course with ProFormance Racing School owner Don Kitch leading the way and ending with the drags on the strip.

NWMotiv was on the grounds recording the event and promoting the new event. It is patterned after other events that use Pacific Raceways entire grounds – and this idea will take off in the future. The social media aspect that is ingrained into the generation that is popularizing the Toyota line of autos will spread like wildfire and like the other’s will bring many people who feel the same about them.

I can see next year’s event learning from the first to bring bigger and better into the future, plan for it.

Images from all venues and angles are now online – click here to go to the photo album.

2-Day SCCA Conference – SOVREN Race Licensing at Pacific Raceways

Posted on May 19, 2016 by admin

19 May 2016 Kent, WA – Watch, listen and learn the basics of life and how we grow. Applying those aspects to the ProFormance Racing School and the 2-day class will put you out the door with paperwork that say’s that you may enter as a novice into club racing.

The part of the class that is more to your benefit is what you take to the streets in your daily driving. Yes, you do learn the proper way to enter a turn or when and where to break on a race track, but, on a percentage basis you will use this gained knowledge in your daily commutes more often than you may think.

That feeling you get and understanding what your rear end is telling you when you are doing this or that is explained expertly by the instructor sitting next to you. This has to be the best bang for your buck that you can do for yourself.

Go to the “NEW” ProFormance web site for the next class date.

Images from the SCCA and SOVREN Classes are now online and available – click here to go to the photo album.

ProFormance Racing School – AM Skills, Novice HP & PM Lapping at Pacific Raceways

Posted on May 12, 2016 by admin

12 May 2016 Kent, WA – Word is getting around that going through the ProFormance Racing School is the best way to learn that new ride you just acquired. Learning to control all that power under your right foot is done in a safe and controlled manner.

The drills seem simple; to get them right takes a time or two thru them. Go ahead and soak in all these drills and see how well it transforms on the track and later on the street. We cannot stress enough how much better of a driver you will be once completing the school, then you tell your friends and they take the class and pretty soon you have a whole bunch of better and safer drivers on the streets.

Check the “NEW” ProFormance Racing School web site for your school date.

Images today from all the sessions are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

Packed Class At ProFormance Racing School

Posted on April 21, 2016 by admin

21 Apr 2016 Kent, WA – A packed classroom for today’s ProFormance Racing School shows how the word is getting around about going thru the class. It can improve your driving skills even if you think you are a good one. Today it was AM Only Skills, Novice HP and a Power Lunch on the program.

What to do if this happens or where to look for the best escape plan can prepare you for much safer driving on the hi-ways and bi-ways. The more people that go thru the class with the combination of safer autos can only translate into safer travels. You really need to check into this program for yourself or children.

Contact ProFormance on the web site for info.

Images from the classes and track time are now online – click here to go to the photo album. As always thank you very much for your support and purchases!

SCCA – Conferences – SOVREN Race Licensing At Pacific Raceways

Posted on April 15, 2016 by admin

15 Apr 2016 Kent, WA – For some people it’s future plans and to some it’s just the aspiration of doing it and for others it’s a bucket list. No matter the thought process the class at ProFormance Racing School is a must.

The experience of Don Kitch and the instructors who teach you will pass along what together would I think total 150 years of combined and diverse experience. The wealth of knowledge that they have lets the students be themselves and learn in a very comfortable setting. Normal to all is a little nervousness when attempting something for the first time. This goes away quickly as Don has a way of putting you at ease so you can learn and soak up the knowledge he is passing along.

For two days of long class and track time you will gain the paper work for you to enter as a novice in many of the conferences around the U.S. And always the innovator ProFormance brought in four PRO3 drivers and their race cars to run with the students in the mock race at the end of the second day. To all those involved it turned out to be a great teaching tool for the students as the PRO3 drivers pushed just enough to encourage the students to take advantage of what was in front of them.

Way different than racing against your classmates only. For Don and the staff what they saw in this combination was how well it worked and is something that should be included with the class.

Keep an eye on the ProFormance website for the next class for your experience.

Images for the two days are now available – click here to go to the photo album. Thank you for your support and purchases!

B.R.A.K.E.S. – “Be Responsible And Keep Everyone Safe”

Posted on April 3, 2016 by admin

03 Apr 2016 Kent, WA – When an accident happens investigators will search for the cause. Is it a part that failed, let’s find out and fix it so it won’t repeat as a cause. New and improved safety equipment for racing is a direct result of someone who had a mishap. Impact absorbing bumpers all automobiles have these days is another.

The one thing that is the hardest to fix is “human error”. For teen drivers this is a big thing. Distracted driving is the largest cause for these 15 to 19 year old drivers. Statistics show that nearly 90% of teen drivers will get into a crash in the first three years of driving. This is the chill that parents get when their child gets to driving age, and it scares the hell out of them, as it should. No parent wants to get that phone call and when it does happen it is devastating.

One proud father that got that call is Doug Herbert who lost his two young sons in a fatal accident in January 2008. The why it happened will never be known but the reason is the driver made a bad decision. Out of that decision came Doug’s resolve to keep as many parents from getting that phone call.

BRAKES was formed shortly after that call. This is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) charity that goes to cities around the U.S. with a cadre of very knowledgeable instructors that put teen thru a course of exercises some of which Doug would do as an airplane pilot “pre-flight check”, most drivers just get in and go not knowing they may have a low tire.

Hand position, eye scanning, skid control are just a few of the topics that are discussed in the class and what the instructors teach in the cars.

This has to be the best investment a parent can do for their child’s future, keeping them safe after they get behind the wheel and drive as they will do a lot in their lifetime.

Helping this program come to the northwest was ProFormance Racing School, Pacific Raceways, Kia Motors, Costco, KKW trucks and Makki Nelson from Liberty Mutual each class participant got a car emergency kit and the many volunteers that make this happen.

GREAT JOB and I hope the fall date comes about.

Images are now available in two albums – click on the links below for the April 2nd, and April 3rd Events.

BRAKES – Photo Album at Pacific Raceways – April 2nd – CLICK HERE

BRAKES – Photo Album at Pacific Raceways – April 3rd – CLICK HERE

ProFormance Racing School Times Two

Posted on April 1, 2016 by admin

01 April 2016 Kent, WA – Two separate dates and two distinctive groups of lappers. The two dates were for those that are taking the class for the first time and those that have been thru the class. Over the two dates you can see what going to the ProFormance School can do for your driving skills.

With those skills comes the confidence that you can handle something a little more performance based and take on the 2.25 mile track at Pacific Raceways or any other for that matter. What the pictures don’t show is the sound of the cars and how it increases as the skills kick in.

If this sounds like something you would like to do contact ProFormance Racing School at 253-630-5130 for your class.

Images of the two dates are broken into two albums for easy access, click on the links to go to the albums. Thanks for your support and purchases!

ProFormance Racing School – March 30th, 2016 Images

ProFormance Racing School – April 1st, 2016 Images

Final Fall/Winter High Performance Sport Driving Day At Pacific Raceways

Posted on March 19, 2016 by admin

19 March 2016 Kent, WA – For the final time of the Fall/Winter Season, The final High Performance Sport Driving Day sported a packed paddock of lappers here to take advantage of Pacific Raceways 2.25 mile track.

A packed classroom for the ProFormance Racing School of students helped boost the total over 60 entries.

One here to test their completed Viper, was Momentary Racing, who put the Viper through its shakedown laps monitoring everything with some pretty cool technology. The one thing Igor and Monica cannot monitor is the looks of the car going around the track. Had a lot of fun chasing the car to as many different locations I could photograph it from in what we called “diagnostics by photography”.
Showing how the car is “balanced” is a big part of getting the best lap times and doing it on a consistent basis. Wish them good luck in their upcoming endurance race.

For all others who took advantage of the last lapping event a ton of smiling faces and a new class of students now all legal to lap the tracks with others, have a safe summer and see you in the fall.

Images of all the action are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

High Performance Sport Driving Day – Feb 27th, 2016

Posted on February 27, 2016 by admin

27 Feb 2016 Kent, WA – As the start of the 2016 road course racing season at Pacific Raceways is about to begin race teams need information. Thus serious testing has begun on Pacific’s 2.2 mile road course.

55 cars turned out today to run lapping and of those a number of them were race teams out for a shakedown. On the track was Lamborghini, Audi, BMW, Subaru, Toyota, Dodge, Corvette, Jeep, Honda, VW and the Porsche team.

I’m sure I missed some but you get the picture, when the driving days come to the track you can see all kinds of car makes and models. Add to this the 13 students going through the ProFormance Class so they too may join the others in lapping Pacific’s 2.25 mile track.

Go to Pacific’s web site for more information on the next date.

Images of all these amazing cars are are now available – click here to go to the photo album. Thank you very much for your support and purchases!