As an avid fan of the Gran Turismo video game series, I have gone through countless of the famous licence tests that are a necessity to advance through the games' career modes. Those tests help you drive better virtually, but the skills taught in the game are also fundamental to real-world performance and defensive driving.
Trouble is, there aren't many avenues for the average motorist to learn and practice these skills in reality. The national driving syllabus is not comprehensive enough to teach advanced techniques, and professional driving courses, typically offered by the car manufacturers themselves, are often very expensive.
Recently, Proton contacted us about a new driver training programme, called the Proton R3 Motorsport Driving Experience, and wanted one of us to try our hand at it. Naturally, I raced to take up the opportunity and joined the other 40-odd participants in an empty parking lot in Serdang for a whole day of thrashing these tidy-handling cars. This, I concluded, was going to be fun.
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