Slipstream - January 2019

Introducing Our New Drivers’ Education
Chief Driving Instructor
by TJ Kroehle, Region Drivers’ Education Chair
We have some exciting news for the Maverick Region
DE Program. We would like to formally introduce Craig
Janssen as the new Chief Driving Instructor (CDI).
Craig has had a fascination for fast cars and motorbikes
since childhood. He was given a motor bike at 10, learned
to drive a car at 11, and proceeded to terrify his family
as he raced around their 4-acre small holding on his
motorbike and the family car.
He attended his first Maverick DE in 2003, and soon
began to spend enormous amounts of time at the track
in DEs and in racing his Spec Miata. Craig has served on
the Maverick DE Instructor/Coaching team in multiple
roles since 2010. He started working with the Green/Blue
run groups, and also coached as an Advanced Instructor
(AI) in the Yellow/White run groups. Recently he has been
a leader of the Coach training program and teacher of
various DE classrooms.
Many of you may remember Craig teaching in your
classroom, as he is easily identified by a strong South African
accent. Craig’s strength is in his ability to communicate a
complicated subject in simple terms that we can all relate
too. He has the respect of his fellow instructors and DE
participants alike.
Not only is Craig a
talented PCA coach, he
has also been an active
racer in both sprint and
enduro racing programs
around the country,
with well over 100 race
starts to his name.
Craig has been
married to his wife
Angie for 32 years, and
they have a daughter
Brooke. He has lived
in the DFW area with
his family since the
early 1990s, where he
leads an engineering
consultancy group.
Please welcome Craig to our program!
26 December