The NCR and NER PCA regions collaborate to offer the Advance Driver Experience to drivers in the white, black and red run groups during our HPDE events. Space is limited. Use this "event" on Motorsport Reg to let the club organizers know you want to participate in the ADX program when you attend NCR & NER HPDE events during the 2025 season. In addition to signing up for the ADX program here, you'll need to sign up for the HPDE events.

You only need to sign up once and it covers ADX with both NCR & NER. Registering here expresses your interest in ADX and you can expect a follow up connecting you with a coach, pending availability at the HPDE events you attend.

Advance Driver Experience

The ADX program offers a unique learning environment where drivers work with coaches in small groups. The emphasis is on practicing and learning skills to help drivers achieve their goals quickly. ADX allows drivers to step back from lap times and collaborate with a coach to create session plans to develop the skills they need to break through to their next level of performance driving. Professional coaching techniques inspire the ADX approach, which has been successful in helping drivers build skill, confidence, and speed on the track. ADX coaches, who are HPDE drivers and PCA National Instructors, support drivers via ride-alongs, solo on-track exercises tailored to individual goals, and lively discussions of driving techniques, the mental aspects of driving, and how to overcome what holds us back. The program includes a track walk for ADX participants, and the small group allows for deep discussions of the track, focusing on driving techniques.

ADX Driver Feedback

“It feels great to have a focus beyond the Garmin and lap times, and to feel like I am improving and not just putting in laps.”

“I loved the Advanced Driver Experience, the mentality of the program, and the attitude of the coaches and drivers.“

“It was wonderful to have a great coach with a full-time attitude towards working together.”

“Overall, it was the best and most informative instruction I have received to date.”

“I’ll absolutely do the ADX again when given the chance!”

Beyond Instruction

ADX coaches go beyond instruction. Their goal is to help a driver build on what they know and the skills they have to achieve their goals. Rather than showing or telling a driver what to do, ADX coaches help the driver develop and execute a plan to reach the next level of driving. This process includes pre-event discussions to define or understand goals, small group discussions about driving and technique, on-track solo exercises, and coach ride-alongs. While ride-alongs will happen, they are not the primary technique a coach will use. ADX coaches strive to help drivers unlock their skills, and one of the most vital outcomes of participation in ADX is that a driver learns how to improve their driving independently.

ADX Approach

ADX doesn’t have a set curriculum. Instead, it has an approach that adapts to drivers to help them meet their goals and improve from wherever they are when they enter ADX. Even with this approach, coaches will seek to help drivers learn about and improve on advanced driving skills, including:

Improving our senses: Vision, Hearing, and Kinesthetic
Understanding load transfer and vehicle dynamics
Feeling the car and sensing traction
Braking techniques and how and when to leverage different braking techniques
Passing with minimal loss of speed
Overcoming fear or confidence issues that can hold us back

At a high level, the ADX approach has four steps:

Discuss goals and techniques: Discuss a goal and the skill that will help us achieve the goal
Develop a plan: determine a set of exercises to develop or improve the skill
Deliberate practice: Dedicate track time to executing session plans
Debrief: follow up discussions with the coach and fellow drivers on how the session went, what you learned, what worked, what didn’t

Drivers will spend the entire event working with their coach in a small group with one or two other drivers. They usually check in with the coach before and after sessions and have more extended discussions throughout the event, and during the ADX track walk.

ADX Track Walk

Subject to track approval, the ADX coaches and drivers will have a small group track walk during the event. An essential part of this track walk is discussing general driving techniques and how we can apply them in given turns. We will often talk through different ways of taking turns, the pros and cons of each approach, and the techniques needed. Rather than having one “expert” who leads the walk, we encourage all drivers and coaches to contribute to the discussion. It’s a good environment to ask questions, discuss alternatives, gain clarity on how or why to do things, and develop a set of things to try on track. Participants often tell us that the track walk is part of what makes ADX a unique and fantastic experience.