New season begins at Mid-Ohio School

The Mid-Ohio School’s 20th Anniver­sary Sea­son began Sat­ur­day, March 16 with a Honda Teen Defen­sive Dri­ving Pro­gram. The sold out class was the first of over 160 on the school’s sched­ule that serves every­one from teenagers to sea­soned dri­vers and sport­bike riders.

A high­light of this year’s dri­ving pro­grams is the new fleet of 2013 Acura ILXs set to debut. Thirty-seven Acura ILXs are being prepped for the first Acura High Per­for­mance Course on April 23. The cars are mod­i­fied for safety and han­dling and fea­ture the 6-speed 2.4L engine pro­duc­ing 201hp.

“It’s a trib­ute to the great sup­port from Amer­i­can Honda that we’re cel­e­brat­ing our 20th Anniver­sary. Our part­ner­ship span­ning two decades is unprece­dented in the per­for­mance dri­ving school indus­try,” said Steve Bid­lack, direc­tor of The Mid-Ohio School. “The Acura ILX is going to be a fast, fun car for our par­tic­i­pants to drive. New to this fleet is an after­mar­ket Honda Per­for­mance Devel­op­ment brak­ing kit for an even higher per­form­ing vehi­cle on the racetrack.”

In addi­tion to the new ILXs, two 2013 Honda Civic Sedans will serve as the new skid cars. Later this year, an entire fleet of 2013 Honda Civics will replace the 2006 mod­els for the Honda Teen Defen­sive Dri­ving Program.

Though the pub­lic sched­ule begins this week, The Mid-Ohio School has been busy already this year as the site of the Ohio State High­way Patrol’s (OSP) 2013 Emer­gency Vehi­cle Oper­a­tions Course (EVOC).

It started this month with two Train-the-Trainer days where The Mid-Ohio School instruc­tors helped famil­iar­ize the OSP train­ing staff with the facil­ity and enhance the EVOC cur­ricu­lum. Hun­dreds of OSP troop­ers from across the state are com­plet­ing their EVOC train­ing in March and April at Mid-Ohio.

The 2013 sched­ule pow­ered by West­field Insur­ance, fea­tures 140-plus dri­ving dates and 21 Per­for­mance Track Rid­ing motor­cy­cle days. It can be found in its entirety at midohioschool.com.

Last sea­son was a ban­ner year for The Mid-Ohio School as it trained over 5,500 par­tic­i­pants, includ­ing 2,400 teens and 1,500 motor­cy­cle rid­ers. The school eclipsed the 50,000 mark all time dur­ing the sec­ond half of 2012.

The Mid-Ohio School is sup­ported by Amer­i­can Honda, West­field Insur­ance, Honda Per­for­mance Devel­op­ment, Sunoco, Dia­mond Cel­lar, Com­fort Inn, Qual­ity Inn & Suites, Presta Per­for­mance Prod­ucts and Coca-Cola. The school is also part­ners in safety with AAA and the Ohio State High­way Patrol.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Mar 20 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.