200-MPH Driving School

Life in the public fast lane is for chumps. Serious speeders will want to test their mettle on the Xtreme Challenge, an event hosted by a team of Belgian instructors from World Class Driving.

By Gregory Anderson

Life in the public fast lane is for chumps. Serious speeders will want to test their mettle on the Xtreme Challenge, an event hosted by a team of Belgian instructors from World Class Driving (www.worldclass driving.com). The company has built its reputation on traveling tours, in which participants sample a handful of sports cars for a day on open roads for $1695. The Xtreme program runs $4995, presumably due to the cost of renting an entire airfield for the day and expensive insurance.

Before the fun begins, participants must first sign away their lives. Item No. 8 on the liability waiver begins with this line:
“Entrant hereby acknowledges that the activities of the event(s) are very dangerous and involve the risk of serious injury and/or death and/or property damage.”

Driving at a rate of about one football field a second is something I won’t soon forget, even though each two-mile run took less than a minute from start to finish. “We have racing drivers, but we are not a racing school,” Linder maintains. “This is simply a chance for people to get a feeling for speed without having a black-and-white car on their tail. It’s just for fun."

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