DRIVING SCHOOL – DEFENSIVE DRIVING – CARS
Security Driving Car Driving School operates in the automotive sector, focusing on road safety and advanced driving. It was born from the insight and determination of Fabio and Mirko Torsellini, drivers and owners of the CIRCUITO DI SIENA, with the goal of offering driving courses that are solid, essential, innovative, and priced in line with real needs.
Core values and fundamentals: explain, illustrate, spread, and passionately pass on all the secrets of defensive driving, aiming to make them part of every driver’s toolkit and especially for driving enthusiasts.
Car culture, driving, and road ethics to be conveyed through advanced driving courses, road safety, defensive driving, and eco-driving courses, with the aim of improving the relationship between driver and car—turning worries, critical issues, and risks into awareness, safety, enjoyment, and passion. It also offers courses in sport driving, off-road, incentive events, team building, and professional training for companies and car manufacturers, combining top standards of professionalism, training, and safety.
Always attentive and open to new operating methods and behavioral practices to keep pace with the times. It brings together creativity, attention to detail, and strong personalization with the ability to organize and deliver both small and large events.
Ideas and solutions with high levels of innovation and practicality.
Thanks to the availability of the Circuito di Siena facility, over twenty years of experience, professional event management, structural flexibility, exceptional design versatility, and a logistics platform capable of precisely meeting user expectations, Security Driving Car has become a benchmark in road safety.
Courses will take place directly at the Circuito di Siena facility, which, in addition to the track itself, offers services such as a Bar, Restaurant, and, if needed, a Hotel.
Constantly focused on market and technology trends, it has optimized a range of advanced driving courses for all drivers—from newly licensed to seasoned motorists, those who, despite holding a license for years, need to learn the proper use of active safety systems, and professional drivers. Special attention has been given to Eco-Driving courses and courses for very young learners. The former aim to cut operating costs, reduce fuel consumption by 15–25%, lower maintenance expenses, and reduce CO2 emissions and pollution in general; the latter help introduce teenagers—from those who haven’t yet earned their license to new drivers—to road safety and defensive driving effectively, efficiently, and at costs aligned with actual needs.
It’s crucial to anticipate dangerous situations and to determine and develop the ability to assess vehicle dynamics and behavior in everyday driving. Drivers should heighten their attention for themselves and other road users, their physical condition, the state of their vehicle, road surfaces, and all external factors that can pose potential hazards and lead to high-risk situations.
The courses aim to build students’ awareness of dangers and risks, and to change the belief that driving is “easy.” Behind the wheel, even routine actions can lead to dangerous situations.
Provide effective tools to decide more quickly on the most appropriate driving behavior. Learn to react to the unexpected—but above all, learn to prevent it. Too often vehicles are driven by our senses, our thoughts, and, in emergencies, by our emotions. These emotions, part of our individuality, can become a danger behind the wheel, especially under stress or in emergencies, where instinct takes over.
Nothing will be left to instinct anymore.
To control the car, you need total control over every aspect and behavior of your driving. Know your vehicle better and use the most correct driving techniques. Build the awareness that driving is always complex and demands full attention at every stage. Manage emergencies, skids caused by sudden loss of grip, and keep control when the car’s directional stability becomes uncertain due to rain or ice—or simply when you overdo it with the accelerator.
Safety is balance at the wheel—a mental balance made of behaviors and knowledge.
Students will realize that in critical situations instinct often suggests the wrong maneuvers!
This isn’t just an invitation to be cautious; it’s a training path that changes driving attitudes and habits, making the user aware, responsible, and capable.
In short:
- Develop risk perception and a culture of prevention.
- Emphasize the importance of the human factor.
- Learn to manage instinctive reactions.
- Improve skills.
- Practice managing emergency situations.
- Strengthen good driving habits.
- Gain awareness of your own driving abilities.
- Gain awareness of the instinctive reactions triggered in emergencies.
- Learn the proper use of vehicle safety systems.
- Adopt a driving style suited to different situations and needs.
The Circuito di Siena’s setup fits perfectly into the training path, allowing on-track practice to accurately assess, in complete safety, each student’s driving aptitudes.
During the first laps, the instructor can identify the student’s skills, habits, and flaws, and tailor the training accordingly. After square-area simulations of specific exercises designed to explain dynamics and corrective actions, the laps on the track—always in absolute safety—complete the course.
It’s very important to make it clear to the student that using the track is solely preparatory to learning driving techniques in complete safety. This training moment must never be understood as encouragement to speed on public roads; rather, it should convince the student how inappropriate it is to drive fast in places that are unsafe and/or lack racetrack-level safety standards, such as urban streets, rural roads, and highways.
COURSES
ROAD SAFETY
For all young people, and especially newly licensed drivers:
we place special focus on ethics and core basics to face, determine, and develop the ability to assess vehicle dynamics and behavior in everyday use. Pay attention to your surroundings and others, try to anticipate what the person ahead will do, remember that a car behaves differently depending on how much and how it’s loaded, that speed limits aren’t absolute but should be adjusted to weather conditions, and so on. Absorb risk awareness, master the vehicle, and acquire the automatisms essential for safety in every situation—especially in emergencies—and optimize the active safety systems found in today’s cars.
For the more experienced drivers:
driving position, driving smoothness, and the correct use of safety systems are corrected and optimized. These systems primarily serve a preventive function to avoid accidents.
When it comes to devices installed on vehicles, it’s possible they may have limitations or conditions for effectiveness, which means it’s important to understand them in order to avoid situations that the device cannot handle. In other words, having a highly effective active safety system does not guarantee that it can manage all risks, and drivers should be aware of its limitations.
Even those who have been driving for many years should consider this, as they may have learned and used older generation cars without any active safety systems. Now, they need to understand how to use these modern vehicles with electronic systems effectively, especially in critical but safe conditions, to achieve the intended effectiveness for which they were designed.
ECO-DRIVING COURSE:
The Eco-Driving course is designed to teach the techniques needed to cut fuel consumption to a minimum and protect the environment.
Environmental awareness and safety go hand in hand. Lower fuel use, reduced vehicle maintenance costs, and fewer road accidents are all key benefits.
By adopting a mindful, safe driving style—eco as in ecological and economical—you’ll see real results in safety, driving comfort, vehicle wear, and lower energy consumption. Combined with proper vehicle maintenance, you can save between 15% and 25% on fuel (assuming a 20% saving, considering the car’s condition and the driver not having fully mastered the technique, with an average annual mileage of 18,000 km, 3,600 km are driven with a fuel cost of 0—zero), while also helping curb the greenhouse effect with a reduction in CO2 emissions of 127 grams per kilometer traveled (a hefty 457 kg of CO2).
The course covers topics such as proper vehicle maintenance, the importance of tires, attention to car service management, appropriate braking techniques, and proactive driving. These are the subjects addressed in the course.
The course provides the knowledge to acquire these skills and habits for a calm, conscious, and safe driving mindset that allows you to remain composed and aware of your surroundings while driving.
SPORTS DRIVING COURSE
A pure adrenaline course!!! For those who want to learn the secrets of sports driving at the wheel of a Ford Van Diemen single-seater, or for anyone who simply wants to savor the thrill of driving Formula cars.
MAIN LEGAL REFERENCES
Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 (formerly Legislative Decree no. 626/94), now supplemented by Legislative Decree no. 106/09, introduced new measures to protect workers’ health and safety while performing their job duties, both in the public and private sectors. In defining its scope, paragraph 1 of Article 3 literally states: “This legislative decree applies to all sectors of activity, private and public, and to all types of risk,” thereby establishing that any risk factor must be considered, including those arising from the use of company vehicles. Interpretative circulars have reiterated that employers must “identify all existing risk factors and their interactions, as well as assess their extent, using analytical or instrumental methods where necessary” (Ministry of Labour Circular 102/95), and also that “the Risk Assessment Document (DVR) kept at the company cannot be partial or inadequate; it must include all identifiable risk factors, including the risk related to driving a company motor vehicle if this activity is an integral part of the job role.”
Therefore, it is the employer’s responsibility to ensure safe driving capabilities and conditions of the company vehicle. Several legal precedents confirm this; see the criminal cassation sentence, section IV, April 1999, No. 3970, which states: “It follows that the employer must ensure that safety measures are respected and that the worker can perform their duties safely, also ensuring that safety conditions are maintained throughout the duration of the work.”
In other words, the employer must always take proactive steps to organize work activities safely, ensuring that employees also adopt the necessary technical and organizational measures to minimize risks connected to their work. This obligation stems not only from specific provisions but, more generally, from Article 2087 of the Civil Code, under which the employer is the guarantor of the physical safety and moral integrity of employees. Consequently, if the employer fails to meet this duty of protection, any harmful event is rightly attributed to them under the mechanism set out in Article 40 of the Criminal Code, paragraph 2 (see, among many, Section 4, July 4, 2006, Civelli et al.).
In the Supreme Court ruling No. 3970, April 1999, it is also evident that a clear obligation exists regarding the training and information on the risks associated with driving a company vehicle (use of company cars related to work activities or as part of work obligations).
In conclusion, the Employer has the clear responsibility to ensure the training and information regarding the risks associated with driving a company vehicle (use of company cars related to work activities or as part of work obligations).
TAX BENEFITS
As with any other training/information program on workplace safety, it is also possible to benefit from economic incentives for safe driving courses today:
- INAIL funding (Art. 11, Legislative Decree 81/08) for investment projects on workplace health and safety by small, medium, and micro enterprises;
- Discount on the INAIL insurance premium (Art. 24, Ministerial Decree 12/12/2000), available if a series of preventive safety measures have been implemented in the workplace.
- Reduced auto liability (RC auto) premiums from certain insurance agencies upon submission of a safe-driving training certificate.
In addition to the initiatives described so far, SDC offers a certificate of attendance and a discount voucher at Toro Assicurazioni as a completion of the training program.
To complement the initiatives described above, SDC provides, at the end of the training program, a certificate of attendance and a discount voucher at Toro Assicurazioni to use on your car insurance policy.