Palm Beach, Fla., Driving School Students Put Pedal to the Medal.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Jana Soeldner Danger

Mar. 19--Modern life is too safe, too tame, too lacking in adventure. Enter professional race car driver Justin Bell to the rescue: He's made a business of adding spice to ordinary lives by offering an opportunity to learn to drive high-performance cars at racetrack speeds.

Students at the Justin Bell GT Motorsports Experience at Moroso Motorsports Park in Palm Beach Gardens pay $995; $2,295 or $3,195 for one-, two- or three-day courses that teach them professional driving techniques and put them behind the wheel at speeds of up to 140 miles an hour with an instructor beside them.

Bell, 33, started racing when he...

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