How to become a great driver in just one day

Confidence behind the wheel and perfect car control skills aren't things that come naturally to everyone, or really even anyone. It can take years to become a driving expert.

Drivers' ed might help you get your license and a general understanding of road signs, but if you really want to become a great driver, you'll want to visit some of these great schools.

Skip Barber Racing School

Skip Barber Racing School offers several different programs located at many different race tracks scattered across the US. 

For beginners, the best bang for your buck with Skip barber is their $1,200 high performance driving and racing school combo. In this single day program, you get seat time in sports cars like the Ford Mustang GT, the Porsche 911 Carrera, and some specially-prepped Mazda MX-5 racecars.

There's also classroom instruction time that's used to teach you how to be both a safer driver on public roads, and a quicker, more responsive driver in racetrack-like settings. 

Currently, this combo school is only offered at Road Atlanta, Sebring International Raceway in Florida, and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Northern California. 

Skip Barber also has similar programs and other more in-depth racing courses at racetracks in Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Bondurant School of High Performance

Located in Chandler, Arizona, the Bondurant School of High Performance has courses for everyone between recently licensed teens and seasoned professional drivers.

Thanks to a partnership formed with Fiat Chrysler in late 2015, most of their fleet consists of high-performance Chrysler products like the Dodge Challenger SRT 392, Challenger Hellcat, Viper TA, and Viper ACR. That's a good thing.

Bondurant's asphalt performance driving courses start at $799. They also have off-road and kart racing classes.

DirtFish Rally School

DirtFish has a slightly different approach to the whole car control thing. And by different approach, I mean a very muddy and sideways approach. 

Each car DirtFish has in their fleet is basically built to be a competition-ready rally race car. This means roll cages, racing seats and harnesses, gravel tires, rally wheels, skid plates for underbody protection, rally communication devices, and all of that great stuff. All of these extra bits are used to keep you having fun, in a safe yet very exciting manor. 

Though DirtFish's course lineup is limited to just off-road performance driving, there's still a ton that you can learn that can be easily transferred over to on-road, adverse conditions driving.

At DirtFish there are multi-hour to multi-day courses, depending on how in-depth you want to go with your rally skills.

DirtFish's normal course pricing starts at $475. The rally school is located right outside of Seattle in Snoqualmie, Washington.