I'm facing similar issues as many others who purchased a certificate but couldn't use it in time or get a refund. My good friend and I bought a $550 gift certificate on May 13, 2019, for my fiancé--now my husband. Since then, we have moved from Arizona to Washington. What's frustrating is that there is no mention of a one-year expiration date on the certificate itself, nor was it included in the email confirming my purchase. How can a gift certificate expire without this being clearly stated? In the FAQ, it says, "Can I pay today and book a date or car later? If you are purchasing a track day as a gift, we sell an open date and open car certificate. Give the certificate to them now, and they can call us later to book." This implies that it is an open certificate. I brought this to David Zubick's attention, hoping for a refund, which was denied in 2020, and I also requested to transfer it to someone else, which was denied recently. I understand the rules and terms, but I hope that in the future, anyone purchasing a certificate is clearly informed about its one-year expiration. I also suggest updating the FAQ to reflect these terms. I'm happy for those who had a good experience on the track, but it's disappointing that the overall service from the company has not been favorable. read more

If I could give them zero stars I would. The owner was the most rude person I have ever spoken to in my life! I purchased a gift certificate in December 2019 not knowing that everything would be shut down because of the pandemic. I also was scammed out of my money! I asked him if I could transfer my gift certificate to somebody else and he said it had expired. I asked if they were making no exceptions because of the pandemic and he said that they will only honor the 2 1/2 months that they were closed because of the pandemic. He also reminded me that they're closed in the summer but that those times still counted towards the time the gift certificate was good. So basically they're not open all year round but you only have a year to use the value of the gift certificate. He then went on to try to give me a business advice and I told him I didn't care about his business I cared about my money that he was stealing from me. He said go ahead and call your credit card company they're going to side with me. He told me the money that I paid to drive wasn't for the experience it was for him to pay his employees his insurance and for his place to stay open. He also said that if it was such a problem to not be able to go during the summer then I should've flown somewhere else where they were open during the summer! This man has no compassion no customer service skills and is incredibly rude! Save your money this is not the place to go to read more

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Little skeptical after reading some of the reviews. However, had a great time with a fairly large group of people. The instructors where super knowledgeable and did and great job instructing how to drive the vehicles etc. read more

Bought my boyfriend the McLaren 3 lap experience & He loved it!. Instructors were nice and got to take as many pictures as we wanted read more

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I booked the Ferrari racing experience with David for my boyfriend's birthday. I didn't expect that my bf would accept a job out of state and now we are moving out of state. I called David to ask if he'd make an exception for a refund or partial refund, given that these are circumstances that I didn't expect and we won't be able to attend.  Over the course of two weeks, I've called and emailed him several times and he acts like he doesn't know the situation because he "receives hundreds of emails and calls"...  I sincerely doubt that. You're so desperate to keep my $425.  He said that he'd lack integrity if he offered a refund because he'd have to go back to every customer that has asked for a discount in the last 35 years (OK David, being a bit overdramatic).  I sent him the offer letter to prove that this isn't an excuse and that he wouldn't be lacking integrity but offering compassion in understanding that we're moving for a job. He said that he's never allowed discounts, not even for deaths in the family! Wow. This is a greedy and desperate company that lacks empathy, kindness, and customer service.  Do your research on TripAdvisor and Google reviews. The reviews left on their Facebook page are left by David himself, and his family. read more

Going to reiterate what everyone has said here. Talked to David today (after calling him twice and both times he said he'd call me back in 15 minutes. Took 4 hours to call me back). He was completely rude and unprofessional. My wife bought me a $299 Gift Certificate a little over 2 years ago that I had forgotten about. Nowhere on there does it have an expiration date. David goes on to lecture me on cash flow and business and how he cannot honor the GC. What a joke, and I'm clearly not the only one with problems. Take your business elsewhere. read more

My son received this for his 30th birthday. He got to choose his car. They gave them a quick training then he raced the car around a paved racetrack. He loved it and the whole thing was run well. Doing it again when my other son turns 30! read more

I just took the full day racing adventure in willow springs driving cobras with my buddy. My buddy bought this as a birthday gift for me and I have to say WOW..... this was a awesome day and experience. As the day approached the owner emailed us and asked if we would want to switch days due to our day not being full. We explained that we couldn't and Dave completely honored the day and was there ready for us. Cars and everything were completely ready. Dave wasted no time showing the cars and explaining how the experience worked. Quickly we were driving and learning about race car driving. He showed us tons and tons of useful techniques and tricks for driving. We had lunch and the entire 2nd part of the day was all on the track. The cars are awesome. The teacher Dave was awesome. the entire experience was awesome. Super fun and not only do you drive these cars... YOU learn how to drive these cars... Highly recommended. Thanks Racing Adventures and thanks David. (side note... wear sunscreen) read more

We purchased a ride along for our 16 year old for Christmas to get to ride in a Lamborghini with a professional driver. We arrived 30 minutes prior to our appointment as instructed. Apparently they overbooked as we were not even talked to until 11:45 - 75 min after we arrived. Then when they did talk to us and decide to take him on his ride along they couldn't get in the car - the remote door lock wouldn't work. We saw this happen on another of their cars when we were waiting. The driver changed the battery a few times and they couldn't get it to work so he had to do his ride along in another car. The ride was short - it lasted 5 min - 4 laps. Totally NOT worth it. read more

Woohoo! This was my first premium car + race track experience at Racing Adventures in Phoenix AZ. It was awesome. I appreciate David and his team running an efficient operation with conveniences and driving education. I was in a group and we all had a great time!!! Great people Great cars Great track Tons of Fun! read more

I purchased a "supercar experience" from RacingAdventures.com. It was postponed a couple times due to weather and lack of participants, so four months later, we finally arrive at the site of the race track in Hitchcock,TX. We are the only people there besides David, the owner, his 3 workers, Jason, Robert and I do not know the name of the 4th, and then Marie, who signed us in. Jason is the only person from this company that actually tried to help us and make the situation as best as he could once it turned awful. So, none of this complaint is towards him. I bought the experience to drive a Cobra Mustang. We get there, the car is a kit-car, not even a real Cobra. Whatever -- we're still here to drive it. We buy the mandatory insurance policy, however, never receive any information on it. I don't even know what the policy is, all he did was charge us $50.00 and never provided any actual documentation for what we just paid for, even though it's been requested multiple times. It's now four days later, still no documents. He also had the drier sign a waiver. We've also never received the signed copy of this even though we have asked for four days. He did send me a blank one, but I don't have a clue if he made changes to it since we signed it on Saturday. I've aksed for our signed waiver, no avail. This transpired April 27th, it is now May 1st, still nothing. I have the entire day from the time we got there until it ended on video on my GoPro. Everything was fine; no warning signs of what was coming up for us. Max gets in the car after they went over everything with him. Keep in mind this entire thing is recorded on my GoPro. Max drove the car for two laps, slow speeds, maybe 50mph even though this was supposed to be a fast/race car super experience. On the start of the 3rd lap, on my video, white smoke starts coming out the back of the car. He goes around the curve of the track and the car dies. He can't go any further. It had been 3 minutes of actual drive time, 2 full laps, (we paid for 4). They go pick him up, and David's employee, on video, says "They'll probably just give you another car to finish your race." So we're thinking ok, cool, he can just drive a different car. Few minutes later, David, the owner, comes over and IMMEDIATELY starts telling Max that he burnt out the clutch. Keep in mind, he'd only been driving for 3 minutes, he went maybe 1 mile in distance. It's a SMALL track. We have 21 cars, trucks, sports cars, classic cars, boats, motorcycles, RV's, etc. WE KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STANDARD CAR. Max has over 20 years experience driving fast cars that are stick shift. At the moment this happened, David said we could call our own certified ford mechanic to come assess the car because we did not believe that a 3 minute drive on maybe 1 mile, would cause a clutch to burn out. We never received a report on the condition of the car BEFORE or AFTER we drove it. How would we ever know it was caused by the exact way Max was driving? It could have been in bad condition when he started driving and it went out while he was driving. On their website they even state that ONE day of driving will not tear up your car. He drove the car for three minutes! After we said we would call our own mechanic right then, DAVID CALLED THE POLICE ON US! Said we were trespassing! Even though we still had belongings in the Cobra, all of our stuff was still on the observing deck. We were PAYING CUSTOMERS. I could not believe this was happening. We have the police call slip as no report was ever made because we left. David canceled the call to the police. I was at the police station yesterday discussing this with the sergeant and police chief. From Saturday until Tuesday I called David's company number listed on his website to ask for a refund because we never finished the experience, and now this man was trying to say we owe all of this money. He screened my calls and would not answer my phone number. I finally called from a different number, he answered immediately. I did this twice on two separate days when he would not answer my calls. On two separate phone calls April 30, David tells us it was $25,000.00 for the clutch! And down time of the car!, then he says it's only $600.00. We requested the same waiver and insurance documents, he never sent them, we requested the cars computer report that he swore up down would be available to us, never provided, never provided any actual mechanic's report to us. He then proceeds to send me an email telling me to stop calling him and that he was going to just run the card he had on file for $1,5000 to repair the clutch. Without any permission from us, without any actual proof there was anything wrong with the car. I have called this man many times and he has now stopped answering the phone completely. I asked for a refund because he has made this entire experience awful. This is from his own website. We paid for a driving experience and we received the most awful customer service. read more

DO NOT BOOK THIS PLACE! Upon looking at the waiver it explained to me that I could postpone my reservation to drive a Hurracan for at least 7 days before the appointment. I called in 10 days before to change my reservation and they said that my reservation was rescheduled and everything was good to go. Upon calling the day of my reservation to make sure everything was in good order for my drive that day they said that they had no recollection of me rescheduling! WHAT THE HELL? The worst thing is, THEY WOULD NOT ADMIT their mistake and they STOLE my $425. TOTAL SCAM! read more

I purchased a $350 gift certificate as a Christmas gift for my boyfriend, Craig. We scheduled the date for February 6. On February 3, Craig's young grandson became ill and was admitted to the hospital. Craig immediately purchased an airline ticket and went to be with his family. I called David at Racing Adventure and explained the situation and tried to reschedule another day. He informed me that because I did not cancel within 7 days, my money was forfeited. I could not believe it. I emailed him a copy of Craig's airline ticket to prove he actually did leave Phoenix and was on his way to Pittsburgh. No pleading, arguing or trying to rationalize worked. David kept telling me to read the contract, and suggested Craig should have waited until after his driving experience to go to his family. REALLY? This is your customer service? I even offered to pay $100 more in order to reschedule. David said he would discuss it with other owners. In the meantime I received an email saying I had an open gift certificate and I needed to use it. I responded and scheduled the date for February 26. Shortly after, I received another email from David saying "they" were still discussing the situation. I never heard back and on February 25 I sent an email asking what time we should be at the track. Here is part of his response. "At no point did we come to any agreement for Craig to drive at anytime. Our last email I mentioned that we would discuss the case. The very next day I became ill and was not able to travel by airplane to Northern California for a meeting with my assistance. Neither one of us travelled. American Airlines did not refund us nor did they offer us any compensation because we didn't fly. We didn't ask for any compensation. Our investment in those plane tickets was a complete loss. I accepted this and moved on. It was in their Terms and Agreements to which I agreed to upon purchase. Your situation is exactly the same. There is no refunds. There is no reschedule. These are the terms that you agreed to." Bottom line is this business is NOT customer friendly, I am out $350, and I wish I had done research before dealing with this company. Judy - Phoenix read more

I too felt scammed after purchasing a $125 Living Social voucher to this company for a Porsche 911 driving experience for my husband's birthday. These guys made just ONE race date for, wait for it, the exact same day the voucher expired in June! (What a coincidence!) Well we signed up for that date online, as instructed, and then we waited for the day to arrive. A few days prior they sent an email, not even a courtesy call to make sure you got it, letting everyone know that because it was "too hot" in June they were postponing the race day until 'sometime' in the Fall. Unfortunately my husband's junk folder gobbled up that postponement email and he took the time off work and drove clear out to their abandoned looking track in the far West Valley the day of the scheduled race only to find that nobody was there, there was no note on the door, the parking lot was full of weeds and nobody was answering their phones at their corporate offices in Scottsdale either!! Way to instill confidence in your company, folks. Until he found that postponement email in his junk folder we were certain they'd simply gone out of business! Also, can I just ask, weren't they **already** well aware that it is routinely hot in June in the Phoenix Metro area? Seriously???? It wasn't even record heat, just normal June heat. That flimsy excuse alone made it clear to us that this cancellation was pre-planned on their part. Sell the vouchers and collect the customer's money NOW and then cancel the bogus race date and reschedule it, maybe, or so far out in the future the customers probably can't make it. Oh, and make damn good and sure you push it out past the cancellation date on the voucher, that way they have no recourse through Living Social either! Very clever scam, you guys... Well, after a couple of months of waiting with no word from them on when the new race date was, my husband called and dealt with one of the rudest people ever, who brusquely cut him off and talked down to him all because my husband had the audacity to ask them for a specific date in the Fall when they were going to hold the replacement event so we could plan for it. They were nothing but evasive about the date for the replacement race, so all we could do was wait and see. They eventually decided to send an email about the replacement date in early November, and they only gave us about a week's advance notice of the race date on Saturday, November 9th. As it turns out, it was the exact same date and time as our son's final Little League game, so we immediately replied to their email and explained the conflict and asked about a possible second date but they didn't reply. Finally, the race day was the next day (and still no reply) so my husband called them and explained the problem and they said that was the one and only replacement date and if we couldn't make it our $125 voucher was forfeited...what they wanted to happen all along, I'm sure. We asked them if we could give it to a friend to go in my husband's place and they begrudgingly agreed, as long as we signed the voucher over to him. So my husband wrote a note right on the voucher saying that he was giving it to our friend and he signed it and we gave the friend all the paperwork. But that was apparently not good enough for them, because when our friend showed up to redeem the voucher the next morning they tried to turn him away because he hadn't brought a signed letter WITH a photograph of my husband's drivers license. (WTF?!?) Lucky for our friend we were able to send a photo of a quickly written letter and my husband's license to him via Smart phone and they *finally* acquiesced and let him use the voucher. Oh and our friend wasn't exactly impressed with the experience, he said it was too restrictive and you really weren't able to get the car to a decent speed. So take it from me folks, doing business with these people is simply not worth the hassle and misrepresentation and the snotty, rude attitude. Try another company that specializes in this kind of thing, I don't think these guys aren't worth the stress. And yes, I reported them to Living Social too. read more

Save your money. The options described on the website are extremely deceiving. I did the half day package. This was suppose to be a 4 hour "experience". I arrived at early as requested on the website, but the instructors arrived half an hour late. After waiting another half hour for them to unload the cars we finally got to drive. We followed an instructed at 30 mph around the track for 15 minutes. Then, we waited an hour while others drove. Then, we drove around again at 30 mph for 15 minutes. Then, waited another hour. We then drove around the course reaching a max speed of 60 mph. For the 4 hours of driving that was advertised, I only drove for 45 minutes. Moreover, the majority of the instructors were very unprofessional. Overall, a terrible experience. The whole time I felt like I had been duped out of my money. read more

Not worth what you pay! I had 5 laps in Lambo- - no paddle shifting allowed have to leave car in 4th whole time! - no revving about 6000 rpm, so top speed you can go in 4th is about 110 mph ($50 plus penlty if you do!) -track is way to short with only 1 good straight away, about 1 min laps ($500 with insurance for 5 laps!) Should get at least 10 laps for that kind of money! I did this experience expecting 3-4min laps with a nice long straight away I could get goin at least 150 mph. Also did it expecting to paddle shift that car getting full experience of the car ( not allowed!) Time of race, got in car, before we got on track instructor told me to "put it in 4th gear and leave it there! " take a few EASY laps get used to the track" so I did figuring the easy laps wouldn't count as my 5 laps! So I took it boringly easy for 2 laps when the instructor says well into my 3rd lap "you got 3 laps left!" I was shocked, at $100 a lap I would have been pushing this car to my max having fun not taking easy laps. When i did finally start goin fast I had the instructor bump me 3 times in the straight away checking over my shoulder to see if I was goin over 6000 rpm, had to let off the gas before end of straight away because I was getting close at 5600 rpm, when I still would have like to go faster! By the end off the race I felt ripped off and pissed off for being ripped off I just wanted to get out of there, When I should have felt awesome and full of adrenaline! Don't waste your money. Unless 100 mph gets you goin cause that's all you get! Positives the staff was friendly and the car was cool to be in! read more

I can't say if this will be for you or not, but their website is not accurate. RE the laps, the instructor rides with you the entire time and they only do 1 car at a time which makes it take FOREVER. Whether that's a pro or con is an individual thing I guess, but the website give you the impression you'll be driving the car on your own after the orientation laps. They were running late, so plan for longer than the 2 hours. They charge you $50 fine if you go over 6,000 RPM too. The instructors were obviously worn out and talked about what a long day they'd had. When you're paying $100+ for 15 minutes of someone's time that's not the best feeling. I gripe at work too, but not in front of my customers. I missed the living social but maybe that's just as well based on the other comments. Overall I'd say it's a bit oversold, but people looked like they had fun. read more

I too had a Living Social coupon and had no problem redeeming it or with Racing Adventures. From my experience it is clear that the people who wrote the other reviews, must not have read the a available dates or the fine print. If you used these sights to purchase anything, you always read the fine print and available dates. Hello! You can't blame a company for your lacking. Don't want to see a company get a bad rap when they don't deserve it! Me and the other 50 people had a blast! read more

I completed two full day sessions with the Racing Adventures program and I'm hooked. I had no previous experience with high performance driving but after level 1 and 2 I am now confident to take what I have learned and apply it at other driving events. After completing a level one program I had to find more opportunities to get on a track and started autocrossing and came back for level 2. I've also starting driving track days with car clubs. The skills learned have me lapping within a few seconds of the instructors times (I gap I'm sure I will never close!) with control I didn't think I ever have. This is a fun sport be prepared to want more and more. The racing adventures program is effective and a tremendous amount of fun. My instructor was a Porsche expert and was friendly and encouraging but definitely challenged me to get better. I'm a little OCD and the program lacked organization at times. Multiple track events occur simultaneously and there is waiting around. After driving other events I realized this is normal for any HPDE because driving at this level requires teaching time and absolute concentration; things that can't happen if its all driving all the time. Having done both level 1 and 2 and watched people go through the half day program I would recommend choosing the two day program. You have to build a foundation before driving fast and there is no substitute for practice. The second day was exponentially better than the first because I was a more capable driver and there was a lot of track time. I always been a fan of the 911 and this was the only place around that you can get into one. read more

For Xmas my kids bought me a 5 lap experience driving an exotic car with Racing Adventures of Scottsdale AZ. The paperwork directed me to contact them to select from a stable of dream cars including a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi R8, etc. I had trouble contacting them, but eventually talked with David on the phone and selected the Lambo. Just prior to the event they contacted my son to ask about postponing since the other customers booked that day were snowed in at an airport back east, but that wasn't possible so I was the only customer .... which turned out to be a bonus. Although we got started late because of delays unloading the car, the instructor, Dave not David, took me for a ride around the track in a Porche GT3 just to get the orientation done while I waited. He was a professional through and through and a very nice guy. Then the Lambo came out of the truck and was driven to the starting point by the owner, David not Dave. He too was a friendly, outgoing guy with lots of stories about his racing career. Finally, the time came to don a helmet and get into the Lambo. I was vibrating with excitement. Dave provided some brief details about the controls, got into the passenger seat and we were off! This car blew me away. The looks, the power, the handling, the confident sense of control - I had a ball. Although I was a little timid in the corners, I did hit 130 MPH (that's 210 kilometres per hour at home in Canada) on the straightaway. This was truly a "bucket list" experience and I would love to do it again. If I have a criticism, it is that these guys, Dave and David, seem to be so into what they do that they forget to do business. I would have bought a hat, a mug, a tee shirt, a picture, a video, monogrammed underwear .... just about anything as a memento of the day. But they had nothing to offer. They could have had a dash-mounted camera with a few days notice, but never let me know that. Man! I was so excited I would have spent serious money on mementos, but they just didn't have anything to offer other than the experience itself - which was fabulous! With any luck, I'll be back! read more

What a dissapointment. I purchased a living social coupon. I called the Los Angeles location which is actually in Rosamond, Ca, spoke to the owner who informed me that the last day to make a reservation was the day before my call, how convenient, even though it was before the expiration date on the coupon. He was rude and unhelpful, not at all what I would have expected from a company owner trying to grow a business. From reading other reviews it seems to be a reoccuring theme within this company, regadless of location, to try and not redeem the vouchers. I think this company and their coupons are scams read more

This place treats customers like insects. Worst customer service and a total scam. I bought a Living Social deal and they refused to let me claim it. The guy I spoke with kept talking over me and then threatened to hang up when I had the audacity to request that he listen to me before interrupting. Save your money and don't support businesses that hate their customers. read more

I received a gift certificate in June 2016 for my 70th birthday from my daughters. It was a wonderful surprise and I was excited to have the experience. Unfortunately, between weather cancellations and an injury I received I have yet to be able to have the experience. I'm writing this to thank and praise David for the exceptional service I have received as he has attempted to assure I get the opportunity to experience this "bucket list" item of mine. The genuine interest he has exhibited in trying to make this happen for me (I'm sure at a loss to them) is most definitely worth a five star rating. I anticipate the actual experience will also be worthy of the same rating! I'm now rescheduled and looking forward to the experience. Thank you David and your entire team! - Arne Larsen read more

We had such a great time driving with Racing Adventures! The cars are fast and cool, exactly what we wanted. The instruction was professional and fun! Thanks for such a fabulous experience! We will be back and recommend Racing Adventures to anyone who is looking for a racing experience! read more

Hello I am the owner of j speed motorgroup I decided to rent the race track for my customers so I contacted racing adventures. The payment process was easy and David even came out to our facility to pick up the payment. When it came to the day when he had to come out and have fun david was there on time and was very professional even when we had over 20 drivers everything was great and we had a great time. Thank you David we will see you again soon. read more

We took a 1 day level 1 training. A friend & I drove Cobras & two other gentlemen drove 911's. The instructors are not in a hush & we only drive less than half the time we were there. The rest of the time was spent with the instructor training us & telling war stories, but some time was waisted on the track to clear. If you want a very intense driving experience this may not be for you. If you want to receive good driver training, drive a real race car on a race track, & have FUN doing so, call these guys. read more