If you are one of our new associates on the August 2025 course, I’d like to give you a big welcome to Bolton Advanced Motorists. I hope that you will enjoy your time with us as much as I enjoyed my course. We will be asking you to change some of your driving habits so that you can pass your Advanced Test. Some associates find this difficult. If you are one of these please persevere. You must attend consistently; if you go out with an observer on one Sunday and then miss the next two, when you next have an observed drive you will have forgotten much of what you were taught during the initial session. During the week you must practise what you are learning on a Sunday morning. Then you should find that around Session 5 it all starts to come together and you can see the benefits of driving using the System of Car Control, IPSGA. If you find that it takes longer, don’t worry. Tell your observer and, if necessary, speak to your mentor. The Group has over 55 years’ experience of preparing drivers for their advanced test and, whatever your problem, I’m confident that we will have the answer. Gary Whittle