The folks at AMG have created a driver training that’s custom-built for their owners and prospects. Want to safely see what that AMG model can really do at extreme speeds? Want to compare your new or potential AMG the other uniquely-tuned models in the lineup?
Check out the AMG Driving Academy.
Here’s the sticky. Tuition includes your hotel, meals, race track access, and a fleet of instructors to tie it all together. Oh, and you get to drive a whole whack of AMG cars that you don’t own.
These range from the C 63, a compact pitbull of a sedan or coupe with no less than 451 horsepower, up to the mighty SLS AMG Roadster – packing well over 500 horses and an exhaust note that sounds like semiautomatic gunfire during a fireworks show.
Performance driving basics are covered first. Proper vision techniques are taught on a slalom course, and basic vehicle dynamics are practiced with a cornering exercise. Vision training gets students to look up, for plenty of processing time before a corner or obstacle. The slalom and cornering exercises tie in steering, weight management and braking – allowing for an all-around feel of the vehicle’s capabilities.
The exercises are demonstrated, developed, and practiced extensively. Students do every exercise in every car, enabling them to sense the differences between various AMG models which are specially-tuned for their target shopper. Additionally, drivers become comfortable in different machines with unique tuning characteristics and personalities.
The ‘every driver, every car’ approach also reinforces the idea that the driver’s skill, not the car alone, is key for performance motoring. During and after each exercise, students are offered feedback by the instructors, allowing them to fine-tune their new skills.
As the day progresses, these skills are applied to some high-speed, instructor-led hot laps with speedometers blasting past the 200 km/h mark. Then, following an instructor-driven pace car, or with an instructor in the passenger seat, students get to take on an entire road course track to tie it all together. Other instructors sit nearby watching, and commenting with mobile radios to offer continual feedback and pointers.
Check out the AMG Driving Academy.
Here’s the sticky. Tuition includes your hotel, meals, race track access, and a fleet of instructors to tie it all together. Oh, and you get to drive a whole whack of AMG cars that you don’t own.
These range from the C 63, a compact pitbull of a sedan or coupe with no less than 451 horsepower, up to the mighty SLS AMG Roadster – packing well over 500 horses and an exhaust note that sounds like semiautomatic gunfire during a fireworks show.
Performance driving basics are covered first. Proper vision techniques are taught on a slalom course, and basic vehicle dynamics are practiced with a cornering exercise. Vision training gets students to look up, for plenty of processing time before a corner or obstacle. The slalom and cornering exercises tie in steering, weight management and braking – allowing for an all-around feel of the vehicle’s capabilities.
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The exercises are demonstrated, developed, and practiced extensively. Students do every exercise in every car, enabling them to sense the differences between various AMG models which are specially-tuned for their target shopper. Additionally, drivers become comfortable in different machines with unique tuning characteristics and personalities.
The ‘every driver, every car’ approach also reinforces the idea that the driver’s skill, not the car alone, is key for performance motoring. During and after each exercise, students are offered feedback by the instructors, allowing them to fine-tune their new skills.
As the day progresses, these skills are applied to some high-speed, instructor-led hot laps with speedometers blasting past the 200 km/h mark. Then, following an instructor-driven pace car, or with an instructor in the passenger seat, students get to take on an entire road course track to tie it all together. Other instructors sit nearby watching, and commenting with mobile radios to offer continual feedback and pointers.