It is not just you either, IMO, there should be (perhaps an optional) test/course for anyone driving a car that has for sake of argument 300bhp. There is no way that passing you driving test is enough! For example, if you purchase a Doge Viper, you can have a training course. I just think it should be more wide spread!
16 is a young age to be driving any powerful car on the open road (a track is a different matter) you have already admitted to driving your car to the limits, the problem is you can be the best driver in the world, but when that person walks in front of your car, or that other really bad driver pulls out in front of you, the consequences don't even bare thinking about.
What I am about to say is not an attack on you, in fact I am applying some of my own experiences to your situation:
I think you will struggle at a race school. I know I don't know you e.t.c but this is why. When I was a little older than you (17) I went to do the UK race courses. I went in there thinking I was a good driver, and I was a fairly good driver. However, being a red blooded male, what the instructers were telling me would just not sink in, I kept making the same mistakes for ages. Then I realised, much to my shock that I had not really been listening. I had heard what they were saying but not applying it. I say it came as a shock, as I went there with the full intention of learning, yet I was the only thing stopping me from doing that.
Also, part of a race course is to see if you have the right personality for the track. If you come booming about, tires screeeeeching then you will be spotted really early on. Being a racing driver has a lot to do with knowing when to push the envelope, and the public roads are certainly not the place for it.
However, on a brighter note, I have no doubts that you, like me will overcome these issues. I really do hope that you will enjoy race school, I also hope that you demonstrate a little more maturity with regards to driving and racing when you finish. I, more than anything, really hope you don't learn why a little more maturity is needed on the roads the hard way. Everytime you get behind the wheel, you could potentially kill someone, it may not even be your fault.
Anyway, enough of my ramble, above all, enjoy the time you have on the track.
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