Welcome to The Driving Connection:

Ron Nelson – President (The Driving Connection, Nelson Motorsports), provides a wealth of knowledge and industry experience developed over a twenty-year career in marketing, training, design and motorsports management.

For the past 20 years, TDC has provided service to most Automotive Manufacturing companies doing business in and throughout North America. (Toyota, Lexus, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Acura, Nissan, Ford, Lincoln, Volkswagen, General Motors Corp, Cadillac, Jaguar, Michelin, BF Goodrich, etc.)

TDC has also supported the needs of most industry marketing training firms in the development and facilitation of their program needs.

Further, TDC provides development and management of all types of auto-related events, from key dealer meetings to trade shows, as well as press and guidebook events. Development includes vehicle analysis, course design and implementation, acquisition and training of pro-driver staff, coordination and supervision of drivers and related staff, administration of events and client relations.

Program staffing needs from one to 40+ drivers, for only a day or for several months. Programs with from 10-15 participants per day to 3,850 per day and 1 or 2 vehicles to 220 vehicles are all within the past experience of our service portfolio.

TDC provides extensive research into program requirements in order to ensure that each member of the team possesses the proper credentials and experience. Our strict requirements ensure that each staff member has instructed at a major racing school. (Bob Bondurant, Skip Barber, Jim Russell, Panoz, Mid Ohio, Richard Petty etc.) Further, they are active or former pro-circuit drivers, race instructors and stunt performers. Their credentials include all the major series of motorsports from NASCAR to Champcars to Formula 1, from onshore to offshore with championships throughout.