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Petty Driving Experience teams up with Clemson for Safe Driving Program: Richard Petty Driving Experience (RPDE), in partnership with Clemson University's Automotive Safety Research Institute (ASRI) announced the launch of its national Safe Driving Program. The program is intended to prevent or reduce highway crashes by high-risk adolescent and young adult participants by measurably improving driver skills, attitudes, knowledge and behavior. The research-based Safe Driving Program, initially designed for high-risk drivers aged 16 to 25, will teach safe driving skills and safety education to participants through a classroom setting and on-track experiences by placing students in hazardous driving situations in a controlled and safe environment. Professional driving instructors will coach the students through corrective responses during each stage of the safe driving modules. RPDE and Clemson will develop a unique safe driving program based on best practices for both classroom instruction and on-track laboratory experiences targeting the acquisition of safe driving skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. Kyle Petty, a long-time advocate of driver safety for young adults, will serve as the spokesman for this initiative, and Kim Alexander, executive director of ASRI, will lead the research team and serve as Clemson's spokesperson.
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Richard Petty Driving experience's corporate headquarters are based in Harrisburg, North Carolina. RPDE currently operates year round at four permanent locations; Lowe's Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina; Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada; Walt Disney World Speedway, Orlando, Florida; and Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia. In addition, RPDE operates at 11 other tracks seasonally. They include: California Speedway, Fontana, California; Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida; Homestead Motorsports Complex, Homestead, Florida; Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana; The Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin; Nazareth Speedway, Nazareth, Pennsylvania; New Hampshire International Speedway; Loudon, New Hampshire; Pikes Peak International Raceway, Fountain, Colorado; Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, Virginia; Gateway International Raceway, Madison, Illinois; and the Texas Motor Speedway, Forth Worth, Texas.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Chrysler Group announced here today that it is partnering with the esteemed Richard Petty Driving Experience (RPDE) to deliver its unique SRT Track Experience professional driving instruction program beginning this year. Chrysler Group is expanding its SRT Track Experience program for owners of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep(R) SRT vehicles to include all automotive enthusiasts, regardless of what vehicle they drive.
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Anyone with preconceptions about NASCAR would be surprised to meet the man behind the Richard Petty Driving Experience (RPDE). While the office is festooned with life-size replicas of the lanky legend in the cowboy hat, the business is machined by a gentlemanly Australian named Barry Graham.
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Las Vegas Motor Speedway became the home of the second permanent RPDE facility and the first driving experience of its kind on the West Coast. Seeing an opportunity to expand into the largest family tourism market in the U.S., RPDE opened its third permanent location at Walt Disney World® Speedway in Orlando, Florida in 1997. That same year, RPDE brought its programs to two other facilities for the first time; Pikes Peak International Raceway and Daytona International Speedway.
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At the beginning of an Experience, the RPDE staff goes over safety issues, track details and gets everyone into a race unifrom. In 12 years of operation the business has never had an injury, major health problem or any blemish on the RPDE safety record. Instruction and attention to detail is the main reason.
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