Friday, February 25, 2011

Porsche Sport Driving School in Livigno

The new Porsche 911 Carrera GTS along with the Cayman S, 911 Carrera 4S and Cayenne and 2, represent to many fans of authentic objects of desire for the school Porsche Italy instead simply represent the fleet with which to run the course on driving ghiacciodromo of Livigno. It is indeed a snowy circuit used as a location for the course "on ice" school of driving the Porsche Sport Driving School, it makes a stop here in the winter school activities Porsche aims to refine the techniques of driving in low grip conditions.

The course was created by Ice Porsche Sport Driving School with the goal of moving motorists driving techniques on snow and ice, as well as refine each type of control, thus increasing active safety and driving skills of each. The course lasts about two days and provides many hours of driving with the repetition of specific exercises paired with sessions in yards in circuit at the end of the course become timed to highlight the skill and learning level of each participant.

The Porsche Sport Driving School offers a pretty intense activity during the year in the winter months, no track days provides the fastest and most prestigious Italian motor racing circuits. The activity of the sole is part of a broader context of aggregation, which would create around the Porsche, the possibility to use sports cars on tracks or on very fast circuits like snow in this case it joins for cultural initiatives such as Live the Porsche Porsche, the Porsche Club Green, the musical event Kilometro Zero or environmental initiatives such as the round table sponsored by Porsche in November 2010 on the relationship between self, environment, pollution, research and information.

Snow and -20 ° C are certainly not ideal conditions for driving fun, especially if you can improve your control over the vehicle. The Ice Course is designed to provide awareness on driving in the snow. For two days, in fact, Porsche enthusiasts can learn the secrets needed to drive the car safely on the most treacherous surfaces.

The cars are equipped with single tires and non-thermal specialist roofing nailed this behavior to make the car as close as possible to that encountered in the use of roads in case of snow or ice. The tires used are the Michelin Pilot Alpin PA3, the winter tire specifically designed and approved the most powerful cars, the technology behind the Michelin tire den Sipes VTS based on an innovative structure of the tire: the asymmetric tread pattern and the presence of various blades improve the ability to drive on snow and provide good roadholding, thanks to an increased contact surface on the snow and excellent resistance to higher speeds.

The course syllabus on the first day on the runway of snow and ice of Livingston provides the following exercises: Slalom, Pendulum, block bridge, power oversteer, braking and obstacle avoidance with laps. The second day will be devoted to the practice of these exercises, fastest time of all relevant evidence.

The tests include exercises of the first day of slalom in the second and third gear used Porsche Cayenne with which you learn to handle the oversteer, the weight transfer and the phenomena of the pendulum. Very useful test of braking on snow and gradually increasing speed gap with a barrier.

In the latter case shows very clearly how, with only 5-6km / h more than the starting point of the brake stopping distance is longer than 3 meters that instantly make the difference between an impact or not an obstacle. During the preparatory exercises will also take confidence with the low grip on the front and rear, as well as discovering the power oversteer is not always automatic, as they need to get grip on what triggers the transfer of cargo.

It turns quickly as understeer is very strong on snow covered and how often it happens that the car "turns" more with less steering wheel. Moving on circuit driving techniques are refined in the search for the best lap time, in this case the "tricks" on the trajectories of the braking points and where and how to put the wheels are fundamental.

The ability to interpret the circuit is more important than anything else, to be more narrow or wider in a curve makes a difference in acceleration between losing more or less grip on the advance or it can be to open the throttle. The absolute rule, however, is always to run the car in advance to be as soon as possible with the nose pointing straight output and wheels ready to open the throttle.

The day ends with lunch, the delivery of certificates of participation and recognition. The course fee is € 1,950 and is inclusive of all activities related to entertainment. Driving a sports car is first and foremost passion and instinct. But it takes control, precision and technique. Skills that can not be improvised but are perfected by experience teaching aims.

Porsche Sport Driving School offers a program of five levels of study, designed to raise progressively the performance behind the wheel of your car and consciously develop mastery in each situation. With a combination of theoretical lectures and exercises followed by an on-track with professional instructors, you will acquire essential techniques and tricks for sporty driving, but of wide application in everyday situations.

An entry level is the course Warm-up. Training which is involved only with your Porsche, you will get to know your car and enjoy the experience of safe driving on the track. A second course is the entry-level precision that can be attended instead a choice of Porsche cars personally or with those provided by the Porsche Sport Driving School.

It 's the step necessary to begin to deal with increasing awareness and technical track, but also the street in everyday driving. It reached the precision, it's time to focus on performance. The third level, in fact, the Performance course will provide you, lap after lap, driving techniques more specific and detailed, focusing on achievement of results that are always higher in view of the next level: the Master course.

This fourth level, especially in international tracks played will be the opportunity to test the knowledge learned in previous levels. The cars used are also those at the top of the range 911, because to get the most you have to have the best. And for those who want to go through with the experience of the track, the High Performance course lasting one day, will be pure fun, challenging with numerous practice sessions every kilometer of the track.

Always accompanied by a highly qualified professional pilot. On the site of the school already has a busy schedule with dates and events of 2011.

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