The Ford Racing High Performance Driving School is located at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City.  It’s the only Ford Racing school in the world, and sports a fleet of FR500S Mustangs and instructors that talk students around every turn of the course in an effort to improve their driving skills.

There are classroom sessions and track sessions where the instructors teach vehicle dynamics through the use of a skidpad car, braking and shifting techniques, and since the school has two 2.2-mile road courses to work with there is a constant barrage of new information that needs to be absorbed during the learning process. 

Recently some of Ford Racing’s NASCAR drivers including Aric Almirola, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and Trevor Bayne took the trip to MMP to do some road-racing. Despite their built-in want-to-turn-left skills, the group managed to acquit themselves well. This cool video produced by Ford Racing TV has some awesome footage of the group rolling ’round the MMP track; not only are they there to have some fun, but as Stenhouse explains, to also learn and get some practice in a number of different driving conditions. 

Having the chance to get out of their NASCAR-spec machines and into vehicles that are much closer to the street puts the drivers in a unique position to learn a bit more about vehicle dynamics and provides the rest of us with some excellent video to watch. It’s neat to see them tearing up the track with the FR500S road-race-spec cars.